2nd FinTech Moot Court Competition 2025-2026 | By NLSIU and Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas
November 15, 2025
The Moot Court Society of NLSIU, in association with Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co (SAM), organised the second edition of the NLS–SAM FinTech Moot Court Competition, 2025, on November 15–16, 2025.
Results
The team comprising Arjun Sagar, Ayush Sagar Sharma and Chahat Jain, from the UILS, Panjab University, Chandigarh emerged as the winners of the competition.
The final bench was presided over by a distinguished panel from the legal community consisting of Senior Advocates Siddharth Aggarwal, Shyel Trehan and Raghenth Basant.
SAM will offer an internship to each member of the winning team as well as to the recipient of the Best Speaker, Best Memorial (Claimant) and Best Memorial (Respondent).
The Problem
This year’s moot proposition raised pressing and contemporary legal questions in fintech ranging from digital public infrastructure to virtual reality, offering participants an opportunity to engage with complex legal, regulatory, and commercial dimensions of fintech law.
The moot problem was expertly drafted by the Fintech team at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co., with valuable contributions from Ms. Ranjana Adhikari’s team on gaming law and Mr. Shashank Mishra’s team on litigation aspects. Mr. Vivek Reddy (NLS BA LLB 2003), Senior Advocate, also shared his invaluable insights, lending significant industry realism to the problem.
A total of 36 teams submitted their memorials, and 24 qualified to argue in the oral rounds, representing some of the top universities across the country.
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Reflections
Speaking at the closing ceremony, Shilpa Mankar Ahluwalia, Co-Head, Banking & Finance at SAM, said, “We are thrilled to have successfully completed the second edition of the NLS-SAM Fintech Moot Competition which allows the lawyers of tomorrow to critically engage with real world regulatory issues facing the fintech ecosystem today. We had thought leaders and leading practitioners from the fintech and financial services community join us as judges for the competition and actively engage with the students. The moot competition brings students, professors and practitioners together onto a single platform to engage with policy & legal issues in fintech reflecting our commitment to nurture the next generation of lawyers and to thought leadership.
Prof. (Dr.) Sudhir Krishnaswamy, Vice-Chancellor, NLS, said, “The support of Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas has made the NLS–SAM Fintech Moot possible. Alongside the moot court competition, we have also focused on advancing academic research on recent developments in fintech law. The first edition of the moot in 2024 led to a collaboration between NLS and SAM, under which we are preparing White Paper on Asset Tokenisation to be published later this year. We look forward to continued engagement on emerging issues in the year ahead.”