Aarzu Khattar

Aarzu Khattar is the Principal and Founder of Truce Legal. Her practice combines sustained experience in Litigation, Dispute Resolution, Corporate Advisory and White Collar Crimes, enabling her to assess issues with a practical understanding of how legal positions are actually developed, tested and ultimately decided.

Her work treats early dispute resolution as a primary risk management tool. Properly handled at the outset, it reduces avoidable legal expenditure, preserves commercial relationships, limits reputational exposure and keeps outcomes within the client’s control rather than leaving them to the uncertainties of a congested adjudicatory system.

Her professional approach was shaped through early exposure to Hon’ble Delhi High Court and Arbitrations in DIAC. Today, her work emphasises structuring the record from the first client interaction. She focuses on identifying evidentiary gaps early, documenting commercial conduct contemporaneously, and aligning correspondence, pleadings, and relief strategy so that the eventual adjudicatory forum receives a coherent narrative rather than a reconstructed dispute.

She is also empanelled as a Mediator with the Delhi High Court Legal Services Committee. Having acted as both Counsel and Mediator, she brings a working understanding of decision making from inside the process, having mediated commercial and matrimonial matters and facilitated settlements that materially reduced live litigation.

Her dispute resolution work spans the full lifecycle of a matter. From commercial and infrastructure arbitrations to conducting litigation before the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India, the Hon’ble Delhi High Court, and Ld. District Courts. This breadth allows her to align case theory, evidence strategy and forum selection from inception. Her practice is rooted in dispute avoidance, addressing legal, factual, and commercial risks early, structuring communication between parties and identifying which issues are appropriate for mediation or settlement so that only necessary disputes proceed to adjudication.

She regularly advises promoters, management teams, and in-house legal departments at the pre dispute stage, assisting them in assessing exposure, calibrating commercial responses, and choosing between negotiation, mediation, arbitration or litigation based on enforceability and recovery prospects rather than escalation alone.

Alongside contentious work, she advises institutions and MSMEs on commercial agreements across marketing, logistics, and finance sectors, applying a dispute resolution lens to ensure contracts remain clear, enforceable, and less likely to generate future conflict.

She also engages with young practitioners and law students on dispute strategy, mediation awareness, and professional ethics, with a focus on practical understanding of litigation process rather than purely academic preparation.