Sujata Barai Chugh is an attorney, political consultant and civic leader who applies her multi-faceted skills to pressing issues facing organizations and communities.
Sujata Chugh has wide-ranging experience counseling domestic and international financial institutions, manufacturers, government agencies and small and large nonprofit organizations. She represents clients in matters related to entity formation, corporate governance, board structure, reorganizations, state and federal regulatory compliance, tax exemptions, mergers and acquisitions, contract preparation and negotiation and other transactional matters.
Sujata has experience advising both public and private clients in complex commercial and financial transactions, including international project finance. She has represented corporate clients on matters related to asset purchases, bankruptcy, risk management, banking and finance regulations, compliance, disclosure issues and infrastructure financing. She has also reviewed intellectual property matters in the context of corporate transactions and entity formations, including entity name trademarks.
In addition to her legal experience, Sujata has served as a consultant and public policy adviser for both nonprofits and government agencies, where she advised on matters of strategic direction, public policy, board recruitment and governance, and grant writing. She has also served in Kentucky Governor Steven Beshear’s Office of Health Policy.
Sujata currently serves on the board of Hoosier Women Forward, on the Executive Committee of the Better Indiana PAC, on the Board and the Diversity Committee of The Orchard School, and was a founding board member of Women4Change Indiana. Other important involvements include the Asian Pacific Bar Association (Indiana chapter) and the South Asian Bar Association. She and her family are actively involved in the Indian community in Indianapolis and volunteer regularly with the Hindu Temple of Central Indiana.
Sujata received her law degree from Harvard Law School in 2003. She attended the London School of Economics on a Fulbright Scholarship, earning a MSc in Social Policy and Planning in 1999, and received her undergraduate degree summa cum laude from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1998. Her endeavors over the years have led her to Egypt, Turkey, Russia, South Africa, India and the U.K., but she hails originally from Munster, Indiana. After living in various cities in the U.S. and abroad, she is thrilled to have settled back in Indiana with her husband and three children.