Chaitanya Arora has more than 25 years of experience advising on all aspects of business valuations, damages quantification, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate finance-related matters. He has advised to private and public companies, private equity funds, and sovereign wealth funds. His work covers assignments across South Asia, India, North America, the Middle East, and Africa. Mr. Arora has been appointed as a damages or valuation expert in over 100 matters and has testified on over 30 occasions.

Mr. Arora has acted as a party-appointed independent expert on matters involving various expert issues across several industries. He has opined on damages, loss of profits, valuation, accounting treatment of transactions, and application of accounting standards. The nature of disputes he has been involved in arises from supply contracts, joint ventures, merger and acquisition-related matters, and expropriations. His industry experience includes matters in infrastructure like port operations, terminals, railway construction, petrochemical industry, industrial gases, hospitality and leisure, telecommunication, locomotive transformers, onshore drilling contracts, online travel agencies, specialty chemicals, thermal power plants, retail franchises, residential real estate construction, and IT infrastructure.

Since 2017, the Lexology Index (previously Who’s Who Legal) has recognized Mr. Arora for his extensive experience providing quantum valuations in expert witness roles and notes that his work in assessing damages issues positions him as “a leading figure in the disputes landscape across Asia.” He is praised for “combining global financial expertise with a keen sense of local issues in Asia, making him invaluable in high-stakes disputes,” and described as “unshaken under cross-examination,” with “calm and skill [that] stand out in high-pressure arbitrations.” As a Thought Leader – Global Elite, he is commended for “a real gift for being able to simplify what would otherwise be fairly complex mathematical calculations,” “offering great strategic advice,” and being “very helpful when presenting cases to clients and arbitral tribunals alike.”

Mr. Arora also serves on the Board of Directors of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Singapore, where he is the Honorary Treasurer.