Unnati Agrawal

Unnati Agrawal is a Partner in CMS INDUSLAW's Antitrust & Competition Law practice group, based in the Delhi & NCR office. Her primary practice area is Competition Law, and she has over 13 years of experience advising major corporates, banks and financial institutions on a broad range of competition law matters.

She has represented clients in complex and high-profile antitrust litigations before the Competition Commission of India (CCI) (including the Director General (Investigation)), the appellate tribunal (NCLAT), High Courts and the Supreme Court of India, relating to prosecuting and defending against allegations of cartelisation, abuse of dominance and imposition of vertical restraints. She has also advised companies on cartel leniency cases, abuse of dominance investigations, and competition law concerns in relation to various types of commercial agreements.

She routinely advises on M&A transactions from a competition law perspective, devising merger control strategy for obtaining approval from the CCI. She has also advised multinational corporations on the formulation of their competition law compliance policies and conducted compliance audits, and regularly analyses and advises on a whole range of competition issues (contentious as well as advisory) across a variety of sectors.

Her recognition includes being consistently recognised as a 'Next Generation Partner' and 'Recommended Lawyer' by the Legal500 Asia-Pacific rankings (2022–2024), previously a 'Rising Star' by Legal500 Asia-Pacific (2021), commended in asiaLaw (2022 and 2023), shortlisted for 'Antitrust & Competition Lawyer of the Year' at the Women in Business Law Awards APAC 2023, and recognised as a 'Thought Leader' at the Autumn 2023 Mondaq Thought Leadership Awards.

Her publications include a chapter on "In-Depth: M&A; 18th edition, providing an insightful analysis of the current M&A landscape in India" (Lexology, January 2025), "Article on Welcome amendments to the Competition law" (The Hindu, August 2022) and "Article on Delineation of relevant markets by the CCI: Change in practice?" (Bar and Bench, May 2022).

Prior to joining CMS INDUSLAW, she worked with J. Sagar Associates and Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (erstwhile Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co.). She holds an LL.M in Competition Law from King's College, London (2011) and a B.S.L., LL.B. from ILS Law College, Pune (2010). She is an Advocate in India and speaks English.