Manu Kulkarni

Manu Kulkarni is a Partner at Poovayya & Co. and a distinguished third-generation litigation lawyer with substantial experience in arbitration and complex dispute resolution. He has been recognised as a Litigation Star and named among Asia’s Top 40 Under 40 litigators by Benchmark Litigation Asia Pacific, and is also ranked by Chambers & Partners.

He regularly appears before the Karnataka High Court, City Civil Courts, Sessions Courts, Magistrate’s Courts, the National Company Law Tribunal, Debts Recovery Tribunals, Consumer Forums, and Arbitral Tribunals. Manu frequently briefs and collaborates with leading Senior Counsel before the Supreme Court of India, the Karnataka High Court, and other courts and tribunals across the country.

His practice spans constitutional matters, commercial litigation, infrastructure disputes, banking and finance litigation, white collar crime, and technology-led disputes, bringing together depth of advocacy with commercial and regulatory insight.