Vidhi Khanijow

Vidhi Khanijow is a partner at Panag, Babu & Sarangi in its highly respected and acclaimed Governance, Investigations & White-Collar Defense practice in India. Vidhi has extensive experience advising Fortune 500, FTSE 250, DAX 40, and NIFTY 50 companies. She advises and guides clients through complex regulatory matters, criminal enforcement actions, and internal investigations. She regularly acts on issues that carry significant legal, commercial, and reputational exposure across multiple jurisdictions. She has significant experience advising manufacturing companies on investigations involving supply chain misconduct, vendor relationships, procurement fraud, and allegations of improper payments or benefits routed through third parties. In parallel, global and domestic financial institutions and listed companies seek Vidhi’s counsel on complex regulatory matters, including conducting internal investigations, responding to regulatory inspections, inquiries and investigations, handling enforcement actions, and providing compliance counselling. A significant part of Vidhi’s practice involves advising boards, audit committees, and compliance teams on governance failures, misconduct by senior executives, and reasons for breakdowns in internal controls. Vidhi has also secured numerous favourable orders for clients on matters involving allegations of insider trading, unfair trade practices, securities fraud, and other securities law violations. Her practice has been consistently recognised by leading legal directories, including Legal 500, Chambers & Partners, Global Investigations Review, and Lexology, which have ranked her among the leading investigations and white-collar defence practices in India and the Asia-Pacific region. Vidhi is a member of the Women’s White Collar Defense Association – India Chapter and the Procurement of Government Outcomes Club, University of Oxford. She has an audit background from her tenure at KPMG, where she conducted audits of financial institutions, including asset management companies and mutual fund schemes.

Vidhi Khanijow is a partner at Panag, Babu & Sarangi in its highly respected and acclaimed Governance, Investigations & White-Collar Defense practice in India. Vidhi has extensive experience advising Fortune 500, FTSE 250, DAX 40, and NIFTY 50 companies. She advises and guides clients through complex regulatory matters, criminal enforcement actions, and internal investigations. She regularly acts on issues that carry significant legal, commercial, and reputational exposure across multiple jurisdictions. She has significant experience advising manufacturing companies on investigations involving...