Advocate Rajeev Sagar

About

Advocate Rajeev Sagar is the founding and managing partner of Sagar & Sagar Law Offices in New Delhi, a firm he co-founded in 2000. With over two decades of practice, he leads the firm's litigation and dispute resolution work across India. Mr. Sagar regularly appears in the Supreme Court of India, the Delhi High Court, and various tribunals, handling complex matters in banking, finance, insolvency, corporate and civil law. He is known for building a strong record of evidence early in each case and for a pragmatic, results-driven approach. He advises major banks, financial institutions, non-banking financial companies and corporate clients on debt recovery and insolvency issues. In addition to courtroom advocacy, Mr. Sagar participates in legal education and thought leadership (e.g. webinars on debt recovery) and maintains a commitment to rigorous, timely preparation. His leadership style emphasizes commercial awareness and precision — ensuring clients' matters are handled with strategic foresight and meticulous documentation.

Career chronology

Mr. Sagar began his legal career around 2000, the same year he co-founded Sagar & Sagar Law Offices in New Delhi. Since then he has led the firm's growth into a nationally recognized practice with offices in Delhi NCR and Mumbai, representing clients across India. Under his leadership, the firm has expanded its bench of advocates and broadened its services in banking, finance, corporate and regulatory law. In November 2024, his co-founding partner (and brother) Sanjeev Sagar was designated a Senior Advocate by the Delhi High Court, reflecting the firm's senior status and Mr. Sagar's own role in building that reputation. As of 2026, Advocate Sagar continues to head the firm's advocacy in high-value litigation and advisory mandates, while also overseeing the legal process outsourcing (LPO) services for international clients.

His practice has developed across that entire field rather than within a segment of it, and the firm's structure follows from it: banking, recovery, insolvency and financial crime defence are conducted together, so that a client's position remains coherent as a matter moves between forums.

He is the partner principally responsible for the direction of the firm's practice and for the conduct of its most significant mandates, and he leads its institutional relationships. He also oversees the firm's international legal support practice.

In the early years of his practice, he even handled a diverse range of serious criminal matters, including proceedings involving homicide, murder, theft, arson, extortion and offences under special penal statutes, including the UAPA, while also appearing in proceedings under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). Over the years, his practice has evolved substantially towards corporate and commercial law, banking and financial services, insolvency, regulatory and high-stakes dispute resolution, with appearances before the Supreme Court, High Courts and specialised tribunals. Today, he focuses primarily on complex corporate-commercial and financial matters, while continuing to draw upon the breadth of his litigation experience to provide commercially grounded legal strategy. His practice is also increasingly extending beyond domestic mandates through legal process outsourcing (LPO), cross-border legal support and international legal services, reflecting the Firm's broader focus on technology-enabled and globally integrated legal practice.

Leadership role

As Founding & Managing Partner of Sagar & Sagar Law Offices, Mr. Sagar has been instrumental in setting the firm's strategy and guiding its major cases. He leads client relationships and often manages the firm's most significant mandates.

Practice focus

• Banking and financial litigation — enforcement of security interests, recovery of non-performing accounts, and defence of financial institutions
• SARFAESI enforcement and debt recovery — proceedings before the Debts Recovery Tribunals and the Debts Recovery Appellate Tribunal, and related writ proceedings
• Insolvency and bankruptcy — proceedings before the National Company Law Tribunal and the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal, for financial creditors, corporate debtors and other stakeholders
• Prevention of Money Laundering Act — appellate proceedings, including matters concerning attachment of secured assets
• Consumer litigation — proceedings before the National, State and District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commissions, principally for financial institutions
• Corporate and commercial disputes — company law, contractual and shareholder matters
• Civil and appellate litigation — before the District Courts, the High Courts and the Supreme Court of India

In these areas, Mr. Sagar has guided high-value, complex matters. For example, he has represented large banks and NBFCs as counsel in major insolvency and enforcement cases. He has also taken on corporate defendants in commercial disputes. (Details of specific cases are confidential client matters, but they involve multi-million rupee claims in insolvency and debt recovery.) Signature matters include leading recovery suits and insolvency petitions on behalf of public sector banks and private financial companies, where he often co-counsels with or appears alongside senior advocates.

His scope of work typically in such matters involves facilitating negotiations, strategic and legal advice and assistance, drafting detailed pleadings, conducting evidence hearings, and presenting oral arguments in appellate courts.

Client sectors and representative clients

Mr. Sagar's clients are primarily from the financial sector. They include major public and private banks, housing finance companies, non-banking financial institutions (NBFCs) and asset reconstruction companies. He also represents industrial and corporate clients in sectors such as real estate, infrastructure, energy and manufacturing (for example, leading real estate companies in debt disputes). Non-confidential examples of clients (by industry, not citing identities) are: a large PSU bank in a foreclosure case; an NBFC in a corporate insolvency; a construction company in a contract enforcement suit. (No client names are disclosed as per confidentiality rules, but the firm is known to be empanelled with several leading banks, NBFCs, ARCs, MNCs, global firms and private clients.)

Education and admission to the Bar

B.A. (Hons.) Economics

University of Delhi

LL.B.

CCS University, Meerut — First Division

Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications

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Enrolment

Bar Council of Delhi, 21 August 2000 (Enrolment No. D/839/2000)

His name has continued on the rolls of the Bar Council of Delhi without a break since enrolment.

Professional philosophy and approach

Advocate Sagar is known for a rigorous, evidence-based approach. He emphasizes building a strong factual and documentary record from the earliest stage of a case. This means carefully preparing all security documents, notices and pleadings on the assumption that each point will be scrutinized on appeal or enforcement. His professional philosophy combines commercial awareness with procedural precision — focusing on clients' business realities while navigating complex law and procedure. In client interactions and courtroom advocacy, he prioritizes clarity and results: arguments are tailored to practical outcomes, and communications (written and oral) are kept clear and solution-oriented. He also values continual learning: staying updated on new regulations (e.g. IBC amendments) and mentoring his team. (For example, he has participated in legal webinars and training programs on debt recovery and insolvency, sharing insights with junior lawyers.)

Within the firm, Mr. Sagar instills a culture of teamwork and integrity. He works closely with Senior Advocate Sanjeev Sagar on appellate and complex matters, ensuring clients have top-level representation. His approach is collaborative internally (leveraging the firm's multi-city offices and LPO resources) and client-focused externally. According to the firm's published philosophy, "we build the record at the earliest stage" — an outlook Mr. Sagar embodies in every case strategy.

Notable achievements

While Advocate Sagar does not emphasize personal awards, his notable achievements stem from the firm's success under his leadership. In particular:

• Senior Advocateship Distinction: He leads the practice alongside Senior Advocate Sanjeev Sagar, reflecting the high standard of advocacy in the firm (few mid-sized firms have a Senior in their leadership).
• Empanelments: Under his guidance, Sagar & Sagar has earned empanelment status with multiple banks and financial institutions, a recognition of the firm's sustained capability in banking law.
• Authorship & Thought Leadership: Mr. Sagar has contributed to the firm's legal publications (briefings on IBC, banking law, etc.), helping to educate clients and peers on regulatory changes. (These firm-authored commentaries are published on the Sagar & Sagar Insights portal.)
• Speaker Engagements: He has been invited to present at legal forums (e.g. webinars on Insolvency and DRT practice) — sharing his expertise with students and junior lawyers.

Selected experience in complex and high-stakes matters

Over more than two decades of practice, Advocate Rajeev Sagar has represented institutional and corporate interests across complex banking, financial-services, insolvency, regulatory, consumer and commercial disputes before courts and specialised tribunals.

His experience includes matters involving secured-creditor rights under the SARFAESI framework, proceedings under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, financial-creditor status under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, banking and electronic-fraud disputes, consumer claims against financial institutions, and challenges concerning the maintainability of proceedings before constitutional courts.

His practice has involved disputes requiring the reconciliation of overlapping statutory regimes, analysis of complex lending and contractual structures, protection of institutional recovery rights, and strategic navigation across specialised judicial and regulatory forums.

The matters recorded in his institutional empanelment materials reflect work before the Supreme Court, High Courts, NCLT, NCLAT, DRT, DRAT, PMLA Appellate Tribunal, National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission and other forums, across banking, NBFC, corporate and commercial matters.

Media presence

Adv. Sagar maintains a low media profile, as is typical under Indian Bar rules (which restrict publicity). His quoted statements in media are rare; instead, the firm occasionally issues commentary on legal reforms and the press may cite the firm in banking/IBC context. (Any press mentions generally focus on Sagar & Sagar's cases rather than profiling Mr. Sagar personally.)

Contact

For legal representation or inquiries, Advocate Rajeev Sagar and the Sagar & Sagar team can be reached via their New Delhi office (principal office) or chambers at the Delhi High Court. Please use the firm's official contact channels: phone or email as listed on the Sagar & Sagar Contact page. (Under Bar Council rules, the website provides contact details but not direct solicitation of work.) Prospective clients or referring lawyers may reach out to discuss matters in banking, insolvency or corporate litigation. The firm offers consultations to understand client needs and will assign appropriate counsel under Mr. Sagar's supervision.