Taruna Garg

Taruna Garg is a commercial litigation attorney practicing in the areas of business litigation, bankruptcy and creditors’ rights. She represents individual and corporate clients in a wide range of disputes including breach of contract, lender liability, financial workout, complex tort litigation and antitrust matters throughout all stages of litigation, settlement and alternative dispute processes. In her bankruptcy practice, Taruna represents trustees, debtors (and their directors, officers and employees), lenders and other companies as secured or unsecured creditors in a variety of complex matters, including liquidation, reorganization, financial workout, turnover, fraudulent transfer, preference and mortgage-related actions. Taruna has successfully prosecuted and defended cases involving breach of fiduciary duty against directors and officers, preferential transfers, fraudulent transfer actions, lender liability, protection of collateral, foreclosure, asset allocation and breach of contract disputes.

In 2017, Taruna was recognized by the Fairfield County Business Journal as one of Fairfield County’s Top “40 Under 40” Businesspeople, and in 2012 she was named a “New Leader in the Law” by the Connecticut Law Tribune.  In May of 2010, Taruna was chosen as a Diversity Hero by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and in April of 2009, was selected by the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women as an Unsung Heroine. Taruna has also been selected as a “Rising Star” by Boston Magazine every year since 2007.

Taruna earned her Bachelor of Arts in International Relations, cum laude, from Boston University in 1999. She graduated from the Boston University School of Law in 2002, where she served as an editor with the American Journal of Law and Medicine.

• Appellate Practice
• Banking
• Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights
• Bankruptcy Litigation
• Business Litigation
• Community Banking
• Litigation
• Probate and Trust Dispute Resolution
• Tort and Product Liability

• Murtha Cullina Diversity and Inclusion Committee
• American Bar Association
• Massachusetts Bar Association
• New York Bar Association
• Commercial Law League of America

• 2017 40 Under 40 Award, Fairfield County Business Journal
• 2012 New Leader in the Law, Connecticut Law Tribune
• Listed as Connecticut Super Lawyer® in the area of Bankruptcy: Business (Super Lawyers is a registered trademark of Key Professional Media, Inc.)
• Listed as Connecticut Super Lawyers® Rising Star, 2015-2018 (Super Lawyers is a registered trademark of Key Professional Media, Inc.)

• October 30, 2019 - 37 Murtha Cullina LLP Attorneys Receive Super Lawyers Recognition
• May 17, 2019 - Murtha Cullina LLP Wins Third Consecutive Litigation Department of the Year Award From Connecticut Law Tribune
• October 18, 2017 - 38 Attorneys Receive Super Lawyers Recognition
• June 20, 2017 - Taruna Garg Receives 40 Under 40 Award From Fairfield County Business Journal
• February 22, 2016 - Taruna Garg Promoted to Counsel
• Taruna Garg Chosen as Diversity Hero by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
• Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women Announces Taruna Garg of Murtha Cullina LLP as an Unsung Heroine of 2009

• Quae Vide - The Diversity Newsletter of Murtha Cullina LLP

• March 29, 2016 - CommunityBankingInsights.com: Lender Beware: The Tragic Consequences of Defective Mortgage Acknowledgments in Massachusetts
• May 11, 2015 - Article by Paul E. Knag and Taruna Garg Published in CT Law Tribune's Special Health Care Section

• September 26, 2017 - Taruna Garg Presenting ABA Webinar on Bankruptcy Basics for Non Bankruptcy Lawyers

• Massachusetts
• New York
• Connecticut

• Boston University School of Law (J.D., 2002)
• Boston University (B.A., cum laude, 1999)