People
Partners, counsel, and associates of the chamber. Each advocate holds independent enrolment and appears in their own right, while matters are prepared and argued collaboratively.
Adv. Anoop Krishna
Anoop Krishna leads the trial and constitutional practice of the chamber. Most disputes that reach him have already passed the point of negotiation. A writ challenge to state action, a prosecution with a client's liberty at stake, a partition suit carrying three generations of a family, a matrimonial proceeding that requires both firmness and discretion.
His method is unremarkable and demanding. Every brief is prepared as though it will be tried, because the parts of a case that decide it. The documents, the cross-examination, the pleading that frames both, cannot be assembled at short notice. He appears before the Supreme Court of India, the High Court of Kerala, its appellate benches, and trial courts across the state, and he takes his own matters from the first conference to judgment.
A first conference will tell a prospective client what the law permits, what the forum is likely to do, and what the matter will cost to run. Where the chamber is not the right place for a brief, he says so.
Adv. Ashik Asharaf
Ashik Asharaf heads the chamber's corporate and international desk. His work begins earlier than litigation does. Investment structuring and shareholder arrangements, artificial-intelligence regulation and data governance, private equity, and maritime and shipping transactions, the commercial questions that arrive before any dispute exists.
He drafts with the courtroom in view. An agreement is written for the day it is disputed, and a compliance framework for the day a regulator examines it, which is a different exercise from closing a transaction. Where a matter does become contentious, the desk carries it into arbitration or into court rather than handing it on.
He is the chamber's point of contact for institutional engagements and for instructions from clients and counsel resident outside India. Beyond the Indian courts and tribunals, he is a registered practitioner before the Courts of the Dubai International Financial Centre and the Courts of Abu Dhabi Global Market, and conducts commercial proceedings there. Where a matter must be taken before any other foreign forum, he instructs counsel admitted in that jurisdiction.
Advocates and associates
Adv. V A Pradeep Kumar
COUNSEL — CIVIL, CRIMINAL, COMPANY & WRITSA counsel of long standing at the Bar, briefed across civil, criminal, and company matters, writ petitions before the High Court, and consumer claims before the commissions. Years in the trial courts have made him exact about the record: what is pleaded, what is proved, and what an opponent has left unanswered. Junior advocates of the chamber are trained in cross-examination under him.
Civil litigation · Criminal defence · Company matters · Writ petitions · Consumer commissions
Adv. M Jenny Thankam
COUNSEL - MATRIMONIAL & INSURANCEAn experienced counsel in two practices that demand very different things. In matrimonial proceedings she is briefed where custody, maintenance, and a family's privacy are at stake, and she handles them with composure. In insurance she appears on policy liability, repudiation, and contested claims before the commissions and tribunals.
Matrimonial and family law · Insurance claims · Policy disputes
Adv. Nandagopal R
Counsel — Company & TaxationCarries the chamber's company and taxation work: petitions and insolvency proceedings before the National Company Law Tribunal, and assessments and appeals before the tax authorities and appellate tribunals. Both are practices where the answer is usually in the documents, and he is thorough with them.
Company law · NCLT and insolvency · Direct and indirect taxation
Adv. Arun Krishna
Counsel — Civil & CriminalAdv. Arun Krishna is a litigation advocate appearing before the High Court of Kerala and various trial courts. His practice encompasses a broad range of civil, criminal, and matrimonial disputes, with a strong focus on complex writ petitions.
Civil litigation · Criminal defence · Writ Petitions
Adv. Anjana S Raj
Advocate · Legal Office ManagerAs Legal Office Manager, Anjana directs the firm’s daily operational and administrative functions. She manages client intake, office billing, scheduling, and supervises the clerical support team, maintaining a highly organized environment for our attorneys and clients.
Advocates of the chamber
Independently enrolled advocates who appear before the trial courts, the magistrate courts, and the tribunals, and who argue matters before the High Court of Kerala. Each drafts pleadings, applications, and legal notices, and carries the research and preparation that precede a hearing.
Office Support
Office staff who carry the preparatory, research, and administrative work on which the chamber's litigation practice depends.
Gopi Krishna works with the chamber on the preparation of matters. He assembles briefs and paper books, carries out case research and the retrieval of judgments and statutory material, prepares draft chronologies and indexes for hearing, and keeps client papers and case files in order.
Brief and paper book preparation · Case research and citations · Chronologies and indexes · Case files and records