Milanka Chaudhury

Milanka Chaudhury is a Partner – Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Practice at Trilegal and a Partner in the Disputes practice, focusing on Arbitration and Mediation. He has more than two decades of diverse experience in litigation and arbitration and has handled multiple headline-making disputes over the course of his career.

Considered one of India’s foremost lawyers on issues concerning aviation and airports, particularly disputes in the regulatory sphere, he routinely represents airport operators, airlines and concessionaires before the AERA Appellate Tribunal and the Supreme Court, and has wide experience handling regulatory authorities such as AERA and DGCA in the aviation sphere.

Milanka has handled arbitrations conducted under multiple rules and laws, before major global institutions and fora, and advises clients on conservancy and provisional measures during proceedings. His arbitration experience covers the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce, Indian Council of Arbitration, Zurich Chambers of Commerce, Singapore International Arbitration Centre and London Court of International Arbitration, among others.

His representative matters include representing GMR in a writ petition concerning the contract awarded by the Airports Authority of India for the modernisation and restructuring of IGI Airport, New Delhi; representing SpiceJet in civil writ proceedings before the High Court of Delhi; advising Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL) before TDSAT and the Supreme Court on aeronautical tariff determination for IGI Airport; advising GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd before TDSAT on aeronautical tariff for Rajiv Gandhi International Airport; advising Yamuna International Airport Private Limited on the greenfield airport at Noida (Jewar) on a DBFOT basis; and representing GMR in a UNCITRAL Rules arbitration in Singapore against the Maldives Airports Development Company.

He also represented REpower Systems (Suzlon Energy) in an arbitration in Zurich before the Zurich Chambers of Commerce, and Alstom Transport India Ltd in a writ petition before the Allahabad High Court concerning the award of a contract by Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation.

Milanka is recognised as a ‘Litigation Star’ for International Arbitration by Benchmark Litigation (2025–2026), ranked as a ‘Leading Lawyer Champion Star Practitioner’ in Aviation & Defence and Dispute Resolution by Legal Era (2025–26), and recognised as a ‘Leading Partner’ in Aviation (including aerospace and defence) by The Legal 500 (2026). He studied at Campus Law Centre, University of Delhi, and is admitted to the Bar Council of Delhi.