Naresh Thacker

Practice Areas

Litigation, Arbitration & Dispute Resolution

Career

Naresh Thacker is a Partner in the Litigation, Arbitration and Dispute Resolution practice at ELP. He is a qualified lawyer with the additional attribute of being a Solicitor (non-practicing) in England and Wales.

Naresh has over 25 years of experience in litigation, international arbitration and mediation; particularly in large infrastructure project arbitrations and post M&A arbitrations, corporate litigation, commercial disputes, regulatory and tax disputes and white-collar crimes.

Naresh’s experience in tax disputes span issues relating to indirect tax, including Central Excise, Customs, Service Tax and VAT. On the customs law front, Naresh has advised clients on customs duties implications for importing certain products. He has regularly been working with clients on several customs and export-related matters, where he has represented clients before custom authorities. On the regulatory front he routinely advises and represents clients on foreign exchange related issues and electricity matters. He has successfully represented clients in matters pertaining to economic offences before diverse Tribunals and Courts in India, large number of which have industry wide implications. Such decisions have been widely reported in various legal journals such as ELT, RLT, AIR, TIOL, Taxsutra etc.

Over the years he has handled a number of international and domestic arbitration matters as counsel under the Rules of ICC, LCIA, SIAC, UNCITRAL, Swiss Rules and Ad-Hoc proceedings for both domestic as well as multinational clients. He has been part of mediation and conciliatory proceedings at the clients’ behest and has brought them to fruition.

Naresh is currently active in several professional organizations including The Law Society, UK; London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA); International Bar Association (IBA); and the All-India Federation of Tax Practitioners (AIFTP). He is the Vice Chair for American Bar Association’s South Asia/Oceania and India Committee. Additionally, Naresh is a member of the Executive Committee of the MCIA’s Users Council (Energy & Power). Naresh is the Vice Chair of the IPBA Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Committee. He is also a member of Legal & Corporate Affairs Committee - Western Region Council under Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and ICC Newly Constituted National Committee- India. He is also part of ABA’s International Arbitration Committee. Naresh has been appointed as the Joint Secretary for the western region of the Arbitration Bar of India. He is a part of the Expert Committee constituted for drafting institutional arbitral rules for proposed International Arbitration Centre at IFSCA, GIFT City. Naresh has been appointed as a delegate to ICC Commission on Arbitration & ADR for the 2024-27 mandate by ICC Arbitration.

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