Ajay Malhotra

Partner

London

Ajay is a Partner specialising in financial services litigation and investigations.

Ajay specialises in the financial services, cryptocurrency and real estate sectors. He has represented leading banks on some of the most significant and high profile matters they have faced across a range of different contentious issues and jurisdictions. He understands how financial firms work first hand, having spent 14 months in a senior position within Goldman Sachs' litigation and enforcement team, as well as other secondments to Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse.

Recently, he has been advising on a number of matters relating to the impact of Russian sanctions on financial firms' obligations, as well as on ground-breaking proceedings in the cryptocurrency sector.

Ajay has consistently been ranked as a Rising Star or Next Generation Partner for Banking Litigation in Legal 500 and has been a key member of matter teams which have won multiple awards including The Lawyer Litigation Team of the Year, Legal Business Dispute Resolution Team of the Year and Financial News Financial Litigation Firm of the Year.

Background

Ajay has a first class degree in Philosophy & Literature from the University of Warwick and a Graduate Diploma in Law and a Legal Practice Course from BPP. He qualified in September 2010.

Experience & expertise

Selected matters

ICBC Standard Bank Plc in relation to the UK's first-ever Deferred Prosecution Agreement and the first case brought for the offence of failure to prevent bribery by an associated person (section 7 of the Bribery Act 2010), as well as the disposal of the US criminal and civil investigations
Goldman Sachs in successfully defending a US$1.2 billion claim brought by the Libyan Investment Authority in relation to a series of leveraged derivatives transactions
UBS in relation to the regulatory and criminal proceedings following the Kweku Adoboli US£2.3bn rogue trading incident
A leading cryptocurrency exchange in relation to a number of claims which litigate novel issues around the duties they owe to third parties