Lavanyaa Chopra

Lavanyaa Chopra is a partner at Panag, Babu & Sarangi’s internationally acclaimed Governance, Investigations and White-Collar Defense Practice. Lavanyaa’s advocacy has been peer-reviewed and ranked by the Legal 500 and is also mentioned in the GIR 100’s editorial commentary about the firm. Lavanyaa’s practice focuses on financial fraud, bribery, money laundering, and failures of internal control mechanisms, for which she has led and conducted multijurisdictional internal investigations and represented large listed global companies before a host of regulators and enforcement bodies in and outside India. Over the past decade, she has distinguished herself as a sector-agnostic specialist who has successfully acted for myriad clients ranging from financial institutions and manufacturing companies to the renewable energy sector and professional service providers. Lavanyaa’s counsel is regularly sought on complex matters involving multiple regulatory touchpoints, specifically in the Europe–India and US–India corridor. One of Lavanyaa’s early career highlights was securing a declination from the US Securities and Exchange Commission for one of India’s largest private banks, followed by successfully leading a self-disclosure across four jurisdictions for one of Europe’s largest enterprises. Lavanyaa also serves as the Chair of the Concilium Network’s Young Lawyers Committee, a network of law firms from around the globe specialising in compliance, white-collar crime investigations, and defence.

Lavanyaa Chopra is a partner at Panag, Babu & Sarangi’s internationally acclaimed Governance, Investigations and White-Collar Defense Practice. Lavanyaa’s advocacy has been peer-reviewed and ranked by the Legal 500 and is also mentioned in the GIR 100’s editorial commentary about the firm. Lavanyaa’s practice focuses on financial fraud, bribery, money laundering, and failures of internal control mechanisms, for which she has led and conducted multijurisdictional internal investigations and represented large listed global companies before a host of regulators and enforcement bodies in and outsi...