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The law on the mandatory requirement of filing a certificate under Section 65B (4) of the Evidence Act has remained uncertain. The Supreme Court, by way of its recent judgment in Arjun Panditrao Khotkar v. Kailash Kushanrao Gorantyal & Ors., sought t...
Shabbeer Ahmed is a Partner in the Hyderabad office of
CMS INDUSLAW. His practice primarily involves civil and commercial litigation and insolvency matters.
Shabbeer
has more than 17 years of experience in advised various multinational
clients on a variety of complex litigation issues and has also been
involved by clients in formulating
and advised on risk mitigating strategies.
He
has represented various clients before the High Court, National Company
Law Tribunal, Civil Courts, Consumer Forums and Commissions,
Arbitration Tribunals, Debts Recovery
Tribunal, Labour Courts and other quasi-judicial forums &
authorities which include clients from diverse sectors such as, banking
& finance, projects & infrastructure, real estate etc. Shabbeer
regularly represents various stakeholders in the IBC matters such
as Financial Creditors, Operational Creditors, Committee of Creditors,
Resolution Professionals and Liquidators.
He
has the distinction of representing the financial creditor in a case
where the first ever liquidation order was passed by any NCLT in India
after IBC has come into force.
Most recently, Shabbeer has been recognised as a ranked lawyer by
Chambers & Partners Asia-Pacific Rankings 2024 for
Corporate/Commercial: Hyderabad-based. He has also been recognised as a
‘Litigation Star’ in Hyderabad for Commercial and Transactions
by Benchmark Litigation APAC 2024 Rankings. IFLR1000 Rankings
have consistently recognised him as a ‘Notable Practitioner’ for
Restructuring & Insolvency. Legal500 APAC 2024 Guide also recognised
him as a ‘Recommended Lawyer’ for Dispute Resolution and Restructuring
& Insolvency. He has also been recognised as
one of the ‘Top 40 under 40’ by Benchmark Litigation Awards 2024 as
well as ’Forty under Forty Rising Stars’ by Legal Era.
Shabbeer
has previously worked with reputed law firms such as Amarchand &
Mangaldas Suresh A. Shroff & Co., Kochhar & Co., and Fox Mandal
& Associates. He has also authored
many articles on varied topics in reputed journals and legal magazines.
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