India, May 1 -- A high-ranking JPMorgan Chase executive has denied allegations of sexual assault contained in a lawsuit filed this week. Lorna Hajdini, an executive director in the bank's leveraged finance division, has called the accusations a "complete fabrication" in a statement through her lawyers.

"Lorna categorically denies the allegations," her lawyers told The NY Post. "She never engaged in any inappropriate conduct with this individual of any kind and has never even been to the location where the alleged sexual assault supposedly took place."

The lawsuit, filed Monday in the New York County Supreme Court under the pseudonym "John Doe," accuses Hajdini of serious misconduct. It claimed that Hajdini subjected the plaintiff to "no...