Advocate (PQE 5)-economic offence

Company Description

Diwan Advocates is a full-service litigation firm with a strong practice in white-collar crime, economic offences, and complex financial investigations. The firm regularly appears before Special PMLA Courts, Sessions Courts, High Courts, and investigative agencies including the Enforcement Directorate, SFIO, EOW, CBI, and other specialised bodies. Known for strategic courtroom advocacy and meticulous case-building, Diwan Advocates represents corporations, promoters, senior executives, and individuals facing sensitive and high-stakes financial allegations.

Role Description: Advocate PMLA & Economic Offences Litigation (Minimum 5 Years Experience + Trial Court Experience Mandatory)

This is a full-time, on-site role in Delhi for an Advocate withminimum five years of focused experience in PMLA and economic-offence litigation, supported by substantial Trial Court experience.

The role is intensive and includes:

• Regular appearances beforeSpecial PMLA Courts, Sessions Courts, and Trial Courts in matters relating to bail, arrest, custody, remand, discharge, evidence, and trial proceedings.
• Drafting bail applications, anticipatory bail petitions, remand replies, objections to provisional attachment orders, quashing petitions, written submissions, and appellate filings.
• Preparing trial strategies, cross-examination briefs, evidence analysis, witness preparation notes, and compiling trial volumes.
• Scrutinising ED complaints, ECIRs, financial documents, bank trails, company records, and forensic material for defence preparation.
• Managing filings, listing, registry coordination, compliance of court orders, and maintaining case calendars.
• Providing regular updates to clients and senior partners while handling multiple connected proceedings.

Qualifications

• Minimum five years of active litigation experience,

  with strong exposure to Trial Courts and financial-crime matters.
• Solid understanding of the PMLA, CRPC, IPC, BNS, BNSS, IEA, BSA and other statutes.
• Demonstrated ability to argue bail, remand, and miscellaneous applications before Trial Courts, Special PMLA Courts, and Sessions Courts.
• Experience in drafting complex criminal pleadings and handling trial-stage evidence, including examination-in-chief and cross-examination preparation.
• Ability to examine financial transactions, cash trails, bank records, ledgers, and corporate documentation.
• Strong research abilities with familiarity in Supreme Court and High Court jurisprudence on PMLA and economic offences.
• Excellent communication, client-handling, and crisis-management skills.
• LLB or higher qualification. Additional training in forensic accounting, financial law, or economic offences will be an advantage.

Application Instructions

Interested applicants may send theirresumealong with aone-page statement of relevant experienceto the firm at:

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Application for Advocate PMLA & Economic Offences Litigation (Minimum 5 Years Experience)