Akshayy is a Partner in the competition law practice at Saraf and Partners. He has over 15+ years of professional experience and he advises clients on a full range of competition law aspects including cartel enforcement, abuse of dominance, merger control, leniency applications, competition law audits and compliance. He regularly appears before the Competition Commission of India (CCI), the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) and the Supreme Court of India.
He has substantial experience in advising multinational and domestic clients on wide-ranging complex antitrust issues such as predatory pricing, tying and bundling, exploitative and exclusionary practices, price parity or MFN issues, preferential treatment, loyalty inducing or fidelity rebates, price discrimination, refusal to supply, margin squeeze, unfair terms and conditions, exclusivity agreements and resale price maintenance.
He exhibits a strong domain expertise across a range of industries including stock exchange, cement, automobile, retail, financial services, telecommunications, e-commerce, music licensing, aviation, auto-parts, pharmaceutical and banking. As a preferred counsel for sophisticated matters involving great precedential value, he is known to competently navigate through the rapidly evolving competition law landscape in India.
