Apoorv Sarvaria

Apoorv Sarvaria is one of the leading lawyers having expertise in Commercial litigation. He is also an Insolvency Professional. He has been a Judge in District Courts, New Delhi. After serving the judicial office for a few years, he returned to law practice and has represented clients and appeared in important commercial matters before the Supreme Court of India, the High Court of Delhi and other important fora in the commercial sector. He is regularly practicing before the Supreme Court of India, High Court of Delhi, NCLAT, NCLTs and other courts, judicial fora and arbitral tribunals.

Apoorv Sarvaria is also an Arbitrator empanelled with many arbitral institutions. As an Insolvency Professional, he has handled assignments as an Interim Resolution Professional and Resolution Professional and has been associated with Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) and liquidation process of companies from different sectors including Steel Industry, IT Sector, real estate sector with many big real estate projects and many more.

He has been associated with some important assignments undertaken by the Judiciary. He has been a master trainer in the E-courts project of the e-Committee of the Supreme Court of India. He has also been a member of the Committee appointed by the Chief Justice’s bench of the High Court of Delhi which had framed bye-laws under the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016. He is regularly invited to speak as a resource person by many organisations such as Delhi Judicial Academy, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI), ICSI Institute of Insolvency Professionals (ICSI IIP), the Indian Law Institute, State Bank Academy and other renowned Institutes. He has also taught Code of Civil Procedure to law students at Xavier Law School, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha. Besides, he has been a co-author in various commentaries on different laws including Code of Civil Procedure, Law of Wills, Indian Trusts Act, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, Prevention of Money Laundering Act, Insurance Act, Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) Act, Code of Criminal Procedure, Indian Penal Code and the Negotiable Instruments Act. He has written the India Chapter on International Execution against Judgment Debtors for Thomson Reuters in association with Centre for International Legal Studies (CILS), Austria.

He regularly advises large Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) and many public sector banks on resolution of stressed assets, recovery of large debt accounts and on key issues arising in insolvency and bankruptcy matters. He has also advised many Resolution Professionals who are appointed as such by the NCLTs.