Ameeta Verma Duggal is the co-founder of DGS Associates and heads the International Trade & Customs practice. She is the Trustee & Regional Ambassador, Asia for the International Sanctions and Export Control Society and has been recommended as an expert lawyer on Export Controls & Sanctions law by the World ECR.

Ameeta has also been consecutively named in the A – List published by the India Business Law Journal as one of the top 100 lawyers in India from 2020 onwards. She is a member of the Supreme Court Bar Association; Delhi High Court Bar Association; International Bar Association, Indo-Pacific Bar Association; Chevening Alumni Association.

Her advisory work includes appellate litigation to obtain trade remedial reliefs from unfairly traded imports in anti-dumping, countervailing and safeguard duty proceedings (Trade Remedial Actions). Ameeta renders trade advice on various FTA’s/RTA’s being negotiated and signed by India, including analysis of all the matters that constitute an import or export declaration including valuation, classification, country of origin, marking and labelling, qualification for the relevant Free Trade Program/Agreement and Free Trade zone issues. She assists clients in responding to customs notices, conducting internal compliance reviews and advising them on topics such as regulatory barriers.

Ameeta has in-depth experience in advising various multinational companies on import and export control as well as licensing issues, specifically the dual use of goods and technologies (SCOMET) regulations regulated by the Ministries of Commerce, Defence, External Affairs and other allied Ministries. She advises Indian and multinational companies in sensitive sectors, including defence, aviation, space, technology (including semiconductors and integrated circuits, artificial intelligence and machine learning), unmanned aerial vehicles, and pharmaceuticals.

In recent time, and particularly with the surge in extraterritorial sanctions on companies operating out of or through India, Ameeta has been actively advising businesses on the implication of such sanctions.

She has regulatory and advocacy experience in India’s emerging legal landscape in the evolving technologies space and provides strategic legal and commercial advice to corporates, trade bodies and governments on the inherent challenges in doing business globally, including the strategies to be adopted by Global Value Chains.

Ameeta also has an active pro-bono practice. Notably, Ameeta is on the Advisory Board of VIDYA, a 35-year-old NGO that believes in social change through educating, empowering and transforming children, youth and women. DGS team, led by Ameeta, is committed to ensure that VIDYA continues to function in a legally sound and compliant manner.