Athena Intelligence Expands Into India, Appoints Aditya Jain as Associate Partner

• Athena Intelligence is entering India with the appointment of Aditya Jain as Associate Partner, backed by senior advisors from India’s defence and law enforcement establishment.
• The expansion comes against a backdrop of sharply rising corporate risk in India, where organisations face over 2,000 cyberattacks per week, and the country accounts for 12.4% of global malware attacks.
• Athena’s India practice will focus on cross-border investigations, including due diligence, anti-money laundering, cyber risk advisory, and asset tracing.

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Athena Intelligence, which specialises in complex, multi-jurisdictional fraud, corruption, and reputational risk investigations, has appointed Aditya Jain as Associate Partner to head its India operations. Jain is a strategic intelligence and cyber risk advisor with experience across South Asia and international markets, and is also the founder of a Geneva-based narrative intelligence platform. The dual profile, globally networked, locally fluent, appears to be precisely what Athena was looking for.

The firm’s CEO, Jonas Rey, was direct about the reasoning:

“His investigative expertise, cyber and technology background, and deep institutional relationships make him uniquely equipped to build what we believe will become India’s most credible cross-border investigations practice.”

Why India, Why Now

India’s corporate risk environment has grown significantly more complicated in recent years, and the numbers back that up. Indian organisations faced over 2,000 cyberattacks per week in 2025, well above global averages, while the country as a whole recorded more than 265 million cyberattacks across the year. India now accounts for roughly 12.4% of all global malware attacks, placing it among the most targeted countries in the world.

For a firm like Athena, which built its practice on cross-border investigations, asset tracing, anti-money laundering, and due diligence on opaque counterparties, India represents both a significant opportunity and a genuine fit. The threats Indian businesses are navigating increasingly originate outside the country, which means domestic-only solutions often fall short.

“The threats are increasingly international, cross-border fraud, reputational attacks, cyber intrusions, and they require an international response,” said Jain.

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The Advisory Bench

What gives the expansion some additional credibility is the advisory support Athena has assembled around it.

Colonel Shashank Kaushal, a retired Indian Army officer with a background in strategic operations and national security, joins as Senior Advisor, providing access and institutional knowledge across India’s defence and intelligence community.

Dr. Rajendar Pal Singh brings a different but equally relevant kind of experience. He served as Director General of the Economic Offences Wing and Special Investigation Team in Uttar Pradesh between 2018 and 2021, and before that as Deputy Director General of the Narcotics Control Bureau in New Delhi.

What They’ll Actually Do

Athena’s India practice will offer due diligence, anti-money laundering investigations, corporate intelligence, cyber risk advisory, and cross-border asset tracing. The client base is expected to span Indian corporates, financial institutions, law firms, and high-net-worth individuals.

Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Geneva, the firm already operates across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. India is its next significant bet, and given where cross-border corporate risk in the region is heading, it’s unlikely to be the last international investigations firm to make this move.

For Indian businesses dealing with counterparties, regulators, or adversaries that don’t stay neatly within borders, the arrival of firms like Athena at least means the options for sophisticated, internationally capable support are growing.

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Editorial Note: This news article has been written with assistance from AI. Edited & fact-checked by the Editorial Team.

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