Manish is a Sindhi married to a Bengali superwoman. He believes in healthy eating and simple stress-free living. He has been practicing intermittent fasting for the past few months with incredible results.

Professionally, he started off as an independent litigation lawyer in 2006. He joined a leading Indian law firm – Kochhar & Co. towards the end of 2007. At Kochhar & Co., he was initially a part of the Intellectual Property team as well as the Corporate team. Since 2009 he has been focussing on Litigation and Arbitration in high stake matters. Over the past few years, the main thrust of his practice has been arbitration and litigation pertaining to infrastructure and construction projects such as highways, metro projects, power projects, pipelines, water projects, railways, etc. Manish has been involved in complex and high value arbitration (both domestic and international) and litigation in this sector. He has been helping his clients in the infrastructure sector maximize the amounts which they can successfully claim in arbitration proceedings while reducing the time and effort required to be expended by their in-house teams. Manish also continues to dabble with general corporate commercial and transactional work. He has more than 13 years of rich experience in advising, assisting and representing clients from diverse industry sectors particularly infrastructure, real estate, banking, information technology, education and pharmaceuticals.  He was promoted to the position of Partner at Kochhar & Co. in 2017. At that time, he was one of the youngest partners in the Firm. Prior to being promoted to the position of Partner, he had consistently been the highest billing Principal Associate / Senior Associate / Associate across the Delhi / Gurgaon offices of Kochhar & Co. for 8 years consecutively.

Manish has worked really hard to reach this position and his vision is to make sure that the younger members of the fraternity are able to succeed with lesser stress and tribulations. Towards this end, he has been conducting workshops at various educational institutions and also mentoring young Associates at Kochhar & Co.