Reena is a Senior Partner and heads the International Trade & Indirect Taxation Practice at the Firm.

She is a lawyer of eminence with more than 25 years of work experience and specialisation in the areas of international trade and indirect taxation. She represents clients regularly before the Customs, Excise, and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal, as well as before various High Courts and the Supreme Court of India. She has extensive court room experience with more than 300 reported cases argued by her.

In the domain of international trade, Reena has represented clients comprising domestic and foreign industries, as well as user industries in India before the Designated Authority, Directorate General of Trade Remedies, and higher forums. She has also successfully argued the highest number of anti-dumping and anti-subsidy cases before the Tribunal. She has also assisted clients in trade remedial investigations in foreign jurisdictions.

She has been regularly providing advisory services and has been involved in dispute resolution for high-profile matters relating to customs, excise, service tax, FEMA, and GST. Critical issues handled by her include classification under the Harmonized System Nomenclature, valuation, export promotion schemes, drawback, EOUs, SEZs, inverted duty structure, admissibility of credits, transitional issues in GST, export refunds.
She regularly assists clients in the transition to the GST regime.

She has also conducted Internal Management audits for optimization of tax liability, identifying issues/risks for potential disputes with departmental authorities and restructuring of transactions undertaken for various clients including some of India's major conglomerates and multinational corporations in the oil & gas, specialty materials and chemicals, steel and manufacturing sector.

Bar Admissions
Bar Council of Delhi, 1995

Education
LL.B, University of Delhi, 1995
M.A (Economics), Jawaharlal Nehru University, 1992
B. A (Hons) Economics, St. Stephens' College, Delhi University 1990

Significant Accomplishments
Recognised among India's 'Top 100 Lawyers' by FORBES Legal Powerlist 2020; felicitated for expertise in Anti-Dumping
Leading Individual for International Trade by Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2022
Recommended Lawyer for Tax by Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2022

• India Trade and Tax Scan

  By Reena Khair |October 2024

• Kocchar & Co India Tax Update-GST

  By Reena Khair, Kochhar & Co. |August 2022

• K & CO India-Customs Alert

  By Reena Khair, Kochhar & Co. |August 2022

Additional ArticlesReena frequently writes articles for publications such as India Business Law Journal (IBLJ), Asian Community News, Friday Group in the Supreme Court, and Live Law, Mondaq.
Article titled Ease of imports cannot be achieved by procedural simplification alone, substantive changes needed, published in Mondaq, February 12, 2021 and in Indian Business Law Journal (IBLJ), September 2020
Article titled Prompt Judicial Review of Trade Remedies not yet a reality, published in Live Law, September 07, 2020
Article titled Is technology a solution to all that ails Customs Administration in India?, published in Asian Community News, August 19, 2020
Article titled New Rules of Origin: India attempts to thwart import of Chinese goods under FTAs, published in Asian Community News, October 06, 2020
Article titled The GATT Agreement-the disadvantaged Indian Industry published in the Friday Group of the Supreme Court
Back and Forth on Free Trade and Protectionism
How to Rebalance an Unequal Economic Partnership
Half-Hearted Refunds for Inverted Duty Structure Supplies
Rationalization of Concessional Duty Rules
Chinese Imports Held Up by Free Trade Agreements
Back and Forth on Free Trade and Protectionism
How to Rebalance an Unequal Economic Partnership