Sharmistha Chakrabarti is a Partner at Skadden, based in Singapore. She has represented clients in commercial and investor-state arbitrations before tribunals constituted under the rules of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, the International Chamber of Commerce, the London Court of International Arbitration, the American Arbitration Association/International Centre for Dispute Resolution, the Netherlands Arbitration Institute and the United Nations Commission of International Trade Law. She also regularly provides strategic advice on drafting dispute resolution clauses in international commercial contracts.

In recognition of her work, Ms. Chakrabarti was named in India Business Law Journal’s International A-List in 2025 and 2026. She was also honored by Financier Worldwide as part of its Power Players: International Arbitration 2025 Distinguished Advisers report, and has been recognized by Benchmark Litigation, Best Lawyers and Lawdragon.

Friven Yeoh is a leading commercial arbitration practitioner and head of Skadden’s International Litigation and Arbitration Group in Asia. He has extensive experience in the resolution of complex, bet-the-company business disputes across industries, as a solicitor advocate and lead counsel in international arbitrations throughout Asia.

Mr. Yeoh frequently serves as tribunal chair or co-arbitrator in matters before major arbitral institutions. He also advises clients in commercial litigation and regulatory investigations involving product risk and liability, energy, corporate affairs, competition and financial services matters, as well as life sciences.

Naveen Raju is General Counsel and Executive Vice President at Mahindra & Mahindra and a member of the Group Executive Board. He leads the in-house legal team and oversees legal and regulatory compliance across the Group’s businesses and operations. He serves as a Director on the boards of Mahindra Logistics, Mahindra Automotive North America and other group entities. He is also co-chair of the Corporate Governance and Corporate Laws Committee at the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry. With over two decades of experience at leading Indian companies, he joined Mahindra in 2014 and has been instrumental in building the group’s core internal competencies.

Parvatheesam Kanchinadham is the Corporate Secretary and Chief Legal Officer (Corporate & Compliance) at Tata Steel. He leads Tata Steel's compliance function and its legal work across governance, antitrust, corporate actions and new ventures, with oversight of legal and governance matters relating to the company. Prior to joining the Tata Group, he served as Corporate Secretary and Chief Risk & Compliance Officer at Infosys, where he was responsible for governance, risk and compliance, including compliance with SEC rules and regulations. He also served on the Committee that framed guidelines on Investor Relations for Central Public Sector Enterprises in India. He has close to 25 years of rich experience in the areas of Governance, Disclosure & Reporting, Risk Management, Ethics & Compliance and Stakeholder Management.

Shalini Saxena is the Global General Counsel at Pine Labs Limited. She brings 26 years of experience as a counsel across litigation and corporate law, with industries spanning consumer finance, fintech, crypto, power and renewables. She was a Partner with a Delhi-based law firm and has held in-house leadership roles with companies like GE and Naspers earlier in her career, with CoinDCX being the company from where she moved to rejoin Pine.

She is also a co-founder of CADRE, an online dispute resolution platform built on the philosophy of accessible and affordable resolution for all.

Dr. Vivek Mittal is the Executive Director of Legal and Corporate Affairs at Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) and a member of the company's Management Committee. Before joining HUL, he served as Global General Counsel at Dr Reddy's Laboratories, managing legal, ethics, compliance and data privacy risks. He brings over 25 years of experience building legal teams across industries, with prior leadership roles at Danaher Corporation, Lupin, Reliance, Radico Khaitan, Indiabulls Group and Caparo India. He serves on esteemed committees, including the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) Task Force on Inbound and Outbound Investments and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Task Force on Judicial Reform.

Shreni Shetty heads the Dispute Resolution Practice at ANB Legal. Advising clients on a broad range of domestic and international matters, her practice spans to strategising and representing towards the entire range of disputes practice including arbitration, court litigation and tribunals, both domestic and international. Shreni’s experience has a particular focus on construction, insurance and shareholder conflicts.

She leads her teams in high-value, multi-jurisdictional disputes across a range of sectors, appearing before diverse fora and contributing to several significant reported judgments and landmark decisions.

In the field of arbitration, Shreni has extensive experience in both ad-hoc and institutional proceedings, including acting as counsel and instructing attorney under the rules of leading institutions, including the LCIA, ICC, MCIA, DIFC, DFA and JAMS.

She is renowned for delivering practical, strategic and commercially focused advice to clients, navigating complicated disputes and her ability to achieve settlement between parties in complex and bitter fought feuds.

Philipp Hanusch is a partner in the Dispute Resolution practice at Baker McKenzie in Hong Kong with than 25 year's experience in international commercial arbitration, litigation, and mediation. He advises clients on complex cross-border commercial disputes across Asia-Pacific. He has acted in a broad range of commercial and corporate disputes, including joint venture, shareholder, and post-M&A disputes, across sectors such as automotive, energy and mining, financial services, telecoms and technology. Philipp has served as counsel in arbitrations under the rules of various institutions, including HKIAC, ICC, CIETAC, ICDR, VIAC, and the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules. Philipp has been repeatedly appointed as arbitrator, and he is on HKIAC’s List of Arbitrators and on the panels of several institutions, including CIETAC and SCIA.

Smitha Menon heads WongPartnership's Restructuring & Insolvency Practice and is a Partner in the Firm's International Arbitration, India, and Asset Tracing and International Enforcement Practices.

Smitha is active in the international insolvency and arbitration community, serving as a Vice President of the International Insolvency Institute and on several international boards and panels, including the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR, the Shanghai Arbitration Commission Panel of Arbitrators and the SIAC Specialist Panel of Arbitrators for Restructuring and Insolvency Disputes. From 2018 to 2024, Smitha was a Singapore court member on the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Court of Arbitration. She is also on the Council of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs, Secretary of the Financial Women’s Association, Singapore and a member of the World Bank’s Insolvency and Climate Change Working Group.

In 2020, she became the first Singapore lawyer to receive the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation’s Woman of the Year in Restructuring (Asia) award.

Sudharsanan R. Thillainathan is a Senior Dispute Resolution Partner at Adnan Sundra & Low, Malaysia, where he heads the General Civil and Commercial Litigation and the Domestic and International Commercial Arbitration Practice Groups. With nearly 30 years of experience, he advises and represents multinational corporations, financial institutions, government-linked entities and private clients in complex commercial disputes before the Malaysian courts and in domestic and international arbitrations. In addition to acting as counsel, he is frequently appointed as an arbitrator and serves as an accredited adjudicator under Malaysia's Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Act (CIPAA). He is also a founding member of Nine Arbitration Chambers (Nine AC), a Singapore-based chamber of independent arbitrators and mediators with a multi-jurisdictional presence. He is also recognised by leading legal directories, including Chambers Asia-Pacific, for his expertise in dispute resolution.

Sara Koleilat-Aranjo serves as leader of Morgan Lewis’s global international arbitration practice. Sara also leads the firm’s dispute resolution and investigations practice across the Middle East and Africa. Sara focuses her practice on international arbitration and dispute prevention and resolution, primarily in cases with cross-border elements. She advises and represents the interests of governments, semi-governments, and corporations in proceedings arising out of inbound and outbound investments in the Middle East and Africa regions across a range of sectors, including energy, real estate, hospitality, construction, banking and finance, distribution, and technology, media, and telecommunications. Sara is admitted to practice in New York, Paris, Beirut and the DIFC Courts and is a licensed legal consultant in the Emirate of Dubai. Sara speaks Arabic, French, and English.

Amita Katragadda is Partner, Deputy Head of Disputes and Head of Disputes - North India, in the dispute resolution practice of Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, where she advises domestic and international clients on a broad range of contractual, regulatory, and constitutional disputes. Her practice spans shareholder's disputes, conflicts between founders and private equity investors, business model defence in emerging sectors, securities litigation, and family succession disputes. She has deep expertise in corporate governance matters and has advised on some of India’s most high-profile governance conflicts. She was seconded to the Securities Group of Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York in 2008 - 2009, and has been appointed as an external member to the Board of Studies of the Munjal School of Law.

Deepto Roy is a Partner at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas specialising in Infrastructure, Energy, Project Finance, and Banking, with wide expertise across Energy, Power, Renewable Power, Oil & Gas, Mining, and Infrastructure. He represents project developers, construction contractors, banks, and financial institutions on some of India’s largest and most complex infrastructure transactions, including Allianz Capital Partner's acquisition of an anchor stake in IndInfravit Trusts, China Light & Power’s acquisition of transmission projects from the Kalpataru Group, and financing for GMR’s Delhi International Airport. Mr Roy also advises on dispute resolution and regulatory matters, recently acting on an international asset manager’s acquisition of Indian renewable assets, and regularly appears before arbitration tribunals, electricity regulatory commissions, High Courts, and the Supreme Court of India.

Quentin Pak is a Director at Burford Capital, leading the firm’s Singapore office and expanding its resources to support Asia-based clients across both regional and internationally seated legal proceedings. He also serves as Managing Director, Burford Asia. Mr Pak brings over 20 years of experience spanning finance and law, having most recently served as Head of Commodities (Asia) at Commonwealth Bank of Australia, alongside senior roles at Barclays, Goldman Sachs, and Deutsche Bank. Mr Pak also worked for a few years at Allen & Overy in both London and Singapore.

Rajat Agrawal currently serves as Managing Director at TruBoard Partners since August, 2026 where he is responsible for helping grow the TruBoard franchise through Fund Management. Prior to this, he was Head of Acquisition - Wholesale at ARCIL, where he oversaw

revenue growth, strategic investments, client relationships, financial management, portfolio acquisitions, and business development. With over 30 years of experience in the financial sector, Mr Agrawal is a seasoned credit risk expert and private credit leader with a strong record across diversified portfolios and geographies. Prior to joining ARCIL, he served as Managing Director of Private Credit at BlackRock, where he set up and led the firm’s Private Credit franchise in India and contributed to the regional Asia Pacific Private Credit Opportunities Fund platform.

Omar Ahmad is a leading practitioner in international and domestic arbitration, with extensive experience in high-value, cross-border commercial disputes across sectors including infrastructure, energy, telecom and financial services. He regularly appears in ad hoc and institutional arbitrations and has acted in proceedings before Indian courts as well as international tribunals, including investment treaty arbitrations. Recognised as a Next Generation Partner for Arbitration by The Legal 500, he is widely regarded for his expertise in complex arbitral strategy, enforcement and procedure, and is a frequent speaker and moderator at leading arbitration forums globally.

Ciccu Mukhopadhaya is among India's foremost arbitration practitioners and one of the country's most highly regarded Senior Advocate in international commercial arbitration. With more than 35 years of experience, he has appeared as counsel in numerous high-value domestic and cross-border disputes under the rules of leading arbitral institutions, including the ICC, SIAC and other international forums. He previously served as Vice-President of the ICC International Court of Arbitration in Paris, one of the most prestigious positions in global arbitration, where he played a significant role in the administration of international arbitral proceedings. He has also served on several institutional bodies promoting arbitration, including the Delhi International Arbitration Centre (DIAC), and is a frequent speaker at leading arbitration conferences worldwide. He regularly sits as Chairperson, Sole Arbitrator and Co-Arbitrator in domestic and international arbitrations and has been appointed by institutions as well as parties in complex commercial disputes across diverse industry sectors. He is consistently ranked in Band 1 for Arbitration by Chambers and Partners Asia-Pacific, which recognises him as having an excellent track record in the international commercial arbitration arena within India. He is widely respected for his advocacy, strategic insight and exceptional command over complex commercial disputes.

Dr. Mahmood Hussain is the Founding Partner of M&Co Legal and a prominent Emirati litigator, arbitrator, and legal strategist with over two decades of experience. He is recognised for his expertise in commercial litigation, arbitration, and Islamic law, having acted as counsel and arbitrator in more than 50 international arbitration matters across diverse sectors, including construction, energy, and shareholder disputes.

Dr. Hussain is accredited by leading arbitral institutions, including the ICC, DIAC, LCIA, and ADCCAC. He serves as Chair of the ICC-UAE Commission on Arbitration and ADR and is a member of the ICC Commission in Paris.

A committed academic and thought leader, Dr. Hussain lectures on UAE Sharia law and employment law at universities in the UK and France, while contributing to the development of international legal scholarship and practice. Fluent in Arabic and English, he is recognised as a leading voice in advancing arbitration and cross-border legal collaboration across the MENA region and beyond.

Olga Tsvetkova is the Managing Partner of Brevia Legal and an internationally recognised practitioner in cross-border disputes and international arbitration. Having practised across Russia, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates, she brings extensive experience in international commercial and investment arbitration involving multiple jurisdictions. She has represented multinational corporations, sovereign entities and private clients in complex commercial and investment treaty disputes and has advised on international contracts, sanctions-related disputes and transnational enforcement strategies. Over the past fifteen years, she has led more than sixty complex cross-border matters across sectors including energy, natural resources, telecommunications, construction and financial services. Before founding Brevia, she headed the international arbitration practice of a leading CIS law firm, worked with prominent international law firms, and served in the public sector where she supervised several multibillion-dollar investment disputes. She is a graduate of the prestigious MIDS (LL.M. in International Dispute Settlement, Geneva), serves on the Panel of Arbitrators of the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA), is a member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law, and regularly lectures and speaks at leading international arbitration conferences. She has authored numerous publications on international dispute resolution for the Journal of International Arbitration, IBA Arbitration News, LexisNexis and other leading publications.

Mahesh Jethmalani is one of India's leading Senior Advocate with over four decades of experience in complex commercial disputes, constitutional law and high-value domestic and international arbitrations. A barrister trained in England and an alumnus of the University of Oxford, he regularly appears before the Supreme Court of India, various High Courts, and arbitral tribunals. His arbitration practice spans commercial, infrastructure, shareholder, banking, construction and cross-border disputes, where he has acted as lead counsel in several institutional and ad hoc arbitrations. He is also frequently engaged in arbitration-related court proceedings involving interim relief, appointment of arbitrators, enforcement and challenges to arbitral awards. In addition to his legal practice, he has served as a nominated Member of the Rajya Sabha and continues to contribute actively to the development of commercial jurisprudence in India.

Alexander Petsche is the Managing Partner of Baker McKenzie's Vienna office. He specializes in complex and cross-border disputes, compliance related matters, including internal investigations and corporate defence. He is a co-editor of the Austrian Yearbook on International Arbitration (Wolters Kluwer) and Arbitration Law of Austria: Practice and Procedure (Juris) and has published another 22 books, among others leading commentaries in the field of Compliance, Commercial and Cartel Law. Alexander is a Member of the Board of the Vienna International Arbitral Centre and teaches Compliance at the Central European University and at the Executive Academy of the Vienna University of Economics and Arbitration at the Resolve Academy. He has been recognized as one of the best lawyers in Austria (German Handelsblatt).

Arush Khanna is a Partner at Numen Law Offices in Delhi, a firm he co-founded in 2019. He is an Advocate & Legal Consultant enrolled with the Bar Council of Delhi. He specialises in commercial disputes with a strong focus on arbitration, particularly in sectors such as oil and gas, real estate, construction, and insolvency. He currently serves as the Special Projects Officer of the IBA Young Lawyers Committee (YLC) and is a member of the IBA India Working Group. Additionally, he holds the position of Vice-Chair of the Young Members Group (YMG) of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, India, and serves on the Steering Committee of the Young MCIA. He was appointed as an Ambassador for India by the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC), and he also serves as the Joint General Secretary of the Society of Indian Law Firms (SILF).

Ana Stanic, the founder of E&A Law, is an English Solicitor Advocate, Irish solicitor and Foreign Regulated Lawyer in Slovenia, with over 30 years of experience in international dispute resolution, energy law, EU law and public international law (PIL). She regularly acts as counsel and sits as arbitrator in complex commercial, energy and investment treaty disputes and advises states, international institutions and energy companies in respect of large energy projects including nuclear and gas. Ana has been a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague since 2019 and was appointed by the European Commission in 2022 as an arbitrator and sustainability expert in respect of EU's trade and investment agreements with third countries. She has taught energy, international arbitration and public international law (PIL) at leading Universities around the world for over 20 years including at Notre Dame, Dundee University, Technische Universität Berlin and UIBE in China. She was ranked by Chambers & Partners 4th best UK Power and Renewables Lawyers in 2026 and top 11 UK Oil and Gas Lawyers in 2023 as well as a Leading UK PIL Practioner by Legal 500 for over seven years.

Dr. Crenguța Leaua is the Managing Partner of LDDP and has over 20 years of experience in international commercial and investment arbitration, international commercial law and technology law. She regularly acts as counsel and arbitrator in disputes administered by leading institutions, including the ICC, ICSID, LCIA, UNCITRAL, VIAC and WIPO, and has served as arbitrator in more than 130 cases. She served as a Vice-President and member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration. She currently serves on the ICC Commission on Arbitration and is a Board member of the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC). Dr Leaua is a professor at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies.

Dr. Zeina Obeid is a Partner at Obeid & Partners, based in Dubai, where she specialises in international arbitration and cross-border disputes. She regularly acts as lead counsel and arbitrator in domestic and international arbitrations in commercial and construction disputes conducted in English, French and Arabic under the rules of leading institutions, including the ICC, DIAC, LCIA, CRCICA, BCDR-AAA and DIFC-LCIA. She has extensive experience representing clients before the Lebanese courts and advising international clients on a broad range of commercial, regulatory and cross-border matters. She is a Fellow and tutor of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb); she serves as Vice-Chair (Dubai) of the CIArb UAE Branch, is a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration & ADR, and is Co-Chair of the IBA Young Lawyers Committee (2025–2026). Dr Obeid holds a PhD from Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas and an LL.M. from Columbia University. She is qualified to practice in Beirut, Paris and Dubai.

Farid is an Advocate and Solicitor practising for over 26 years and is based out of Mumbai.

Farid is also the Co-Chair of the Disputes Practise at JSA and specializes in corporate and commercial litigation and arbitration. As an Advocate on Record of the Supreme Court of India, Farid regularly appears before the nation's highest court.

Farid has been consistently rated as a top lawyer in India. His recent accolades include being enlisted as a Ranked Dispute Resolution Lawyer in the 2023-24 edition of Legal 500 Asia Pacific directory, recognised as a Litigation Star for commercial and transaction disputes by Benchmark Litigation in its 2025 and 2026 Asia-Pacific Editions and as a Leading Lawyer for Dispute Resolution by Legal Era - Legal Media Group for the years 2024-25 and 2025-26

Justice Indu Malhotra is a former Judge of the Supreme Court of India and one of the country's foremost arbitration practitioners. She made history in 2018 as the first woman advocate to be directly elevated from the Bar to the Supreme Court, and served in this post till her retirement in 2021. During her tenure as a Judge, she delivered several landmark judgements on Arbitration. Prior to her elevation, she had a distinguished arbitration practice as a Senior Advocate, appearing in domestic and international commercial arbitrations and serving as an arbitrator. She was the second woman to be designated as a Senior Advocate by the Supreme Court. She was nominated as a member of the Government of India's High-Level Committee on arbitration reforms, which led to the Amendments to the Arbitration Act in 2019. Justice Malhotra now serves as a full-time arbitrator in domestic and international disputes. She is also the author of the leading treatise The Law and Practice of Arbitration and Conciliation, which is cited in various Judgements of the Supreme Court and High Courts. She is a member of the Court of Permanent Court of Arbitration. She is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London.

Ms. Pavani Reddy is a Legal Director in the London office of Clyde & Co and an experienced international disputes lawyer specialising in international arbitration, commercial litigation, sanctions, and civil fraud. She has represented clients in complex, high-value cross-border disputes across the energy, construction, banking, oil and gas, commodities, and shareholder disputes sectors. Her arbitration practice spans proceedings under leading institutional rules, including the ICC, LCIA, DIFC, GAFTA, and AAA, as well as arbitration-related litigation before the English courts. She has also appeared in significant matters before the UK Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, and High Court. Ms. Reddy has extensive experience representing Indian state-owned and private companies in international arbitrations, bringing valuable insight into disputes at the intersection of Indian and international arbitration.

Sherina Petit is a Partner at Stewarts in London, where she heads the International Arbitration and India practices. She is a leading international disputes lawyer specialising in international commercial arbitration, investor-State arbitration, arbitration-related litigation, and ADR, and also sits as an arbitrator. Her practice spans proceedings under major arbitral rules, including the LCIA, ICC, SIAC, and UNCITRAL, across sectors such as energy, infrastructure, construction, financial services, technology, and pharmaceuticals. Having practised as an advocate in Mumbai before qualifying in England and Wales, she has extensive experience advising Indian and international clients in cross-border disputes. Ms. Petit currently serves on the Board of the LCIA and LIDW, and is actively involved with several international arbitration organisations, bringing both institutional and practitioner perspectives to the development of international arbitration. Sherina also serves on the Steering Committee of the Pledge for Equal Representation of Women in Arbitration and is the Chair of the India Pledge Committee. She has separately also launched the India Promise, an initiative aimed at ensuring the fair representation and appointment of Indian arbitrators in international disputes, irrespective of a case’s connection to India.

Mahesh Rai is Managing Director of the Dispute Resolution Department at Drew & Napier LLC and one of Singapore’s leading advocates for high-stakes litigation and international arbitration. He has appeared as counsel in more than 250 disputes; including arbitrations under SIAC, ICC, HKIAC, UNCITRAL, ICSID, VIAC and ad hoc rules, and at all levels of the Singapore courts. Mahesh sits as arbitrator and is empanelled at leading arbitral institutions across Asia. He is called to the Singapore, English and New York Bars, and has rights of audience before the DIFC Courts. In 2021, a panel of Singapore judges awarded him the Joseph Grimberg Outstanding Young Advocate Award for advocacy, professional excellence and ethical standards. He is consistently ranked by Chambers, The Legal 500 and Who's Who Legal, and has been named in the India Business Law Journal International A-List for four consecutive years.

Probir is a Partner in JSA’s Technology, Media and Telecommunications team. He is a sought-after industry specialist with particular emphasis on Fintech/Data Protection and Private Equity in the IT space..

Probir’s corporate practice involves transactions focused on the high technology industry including cross border Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity and Venture Capital transactions. His practice includes advice on Transaction Structuring, Entry Strategies and Foreign Exchange Regulations.

Probir’s niche practice includes product counselling for market leading technology companies, advising on cutting edge technology regulation issues, cross-border data flows and content and digital commerce. He has extensively advised and assisted his clients on various product and service offerings.

Probir has consistently been ranked by ALB amongst the top TMT Lawyers, and Top Fintech Lawyers. He has been voted as the Next Generation Partner by Legal 500, BW Legal, Chambers and Partners and was voted as the Top International Lawyer by Forbes.

Chetan Chopra is the Group General Counsel at Ola Group, where he leads the legal, regulatory and compliance functions across the Group's businesses, including Ola Electric, Ola Consumer (Mobility) and Krutrim AI. With nearly two decades of experience, he advises on corporate governance, strategic transactions, commercial contracts, regulatory compliance, disputes, intellectual property and public policy, supporting the Group's growth across mobility, electric vehicles and artificial intelligence. Prior to joining the Ola Group in his current role, he held senior legal leadership positions at TruKKer, Flipkart Group, United Breweries, Ola (ANI Technologies) and PepsiCo India, and began his career in private practice at Amarchand & Mangaldas and J. Sagar Associates. He has been recognised among India's leading in-house counsel by The Legal 500 GC Powerlist, Forbes India, BW Legal World, and Legal Era.

C.K. Nandakumar is a Senior Advocate practising before the High Court of Karnataka with over twenty five years of experience in commercial litigation, arbitration, constitutional law and corporate disputes. He regularly appears before the Supreme Court of India, the Karnataka High Court and various tribunals, and acts as both counsel and arbitrator in a wide range of domestic and international commercial arbitrations. His practice encompasses infrastructure, construction, energy, intellectual property, technology, public law and complex commercial disputes.

He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, U. K. He is widely recognised for his expertise in arbitration and commercial litigation and is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences on dispute resolution.

He is a contributing editor of C. R. Dutta commentary on The Company Law, 2017 edition. He has contributed to International Construction Contract Law, 2nd Edition. He has presented papers at the University of Tokyo and the National Taiwan University, Taipei, and has contributed book chapters to Asia Pacific Trust Law.

Paras Lalwani is a Partner in Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP, specialising in international commercial arbitration, cross-border commercial disputes and complex internal investigations. He has acted as counsel in high-value and multi-jurisdictional arbitrations under the SIAC, ICC, LCIA, HKIAC and UNCITRAL Rules, as well as in arbitration-related proceedings before the Singapore courts. His practice spans several sectors including banking, technology, cryptocurrency, transportation, construction and energy. Paras counts amongst his clients leading MNCs as well as high net worth and ultra high net worth individuals living across Asia-Pacific. He is recognised as a leading arbitration practitioner and has particular experience advising on India-related and Asia-Pacific disputes, making him a prominent voice in cross-border arbitration.

Pujarini Guha Maulik is the General Counsel & Head of Privacy at InMobi, where she leads the company's global legal and privacy functions across its international operations. With over 20 years of in-house legal experience, she advises on commercial transactions, privacy and data protection, technology law, corporate governance, M&A, intellectual property and regulatory compliance. She also serves as the Presiding Member of InMobi's Privacy Committee and has played a pivotal role in building the company's global privacy governance framework, including compliance with evolving data protection regimes such as the GDPR and India's digital privacy laws. Before joining InMobi in 2012, she held legal roles at Infosys and Dr. Reddy's Laboratories. A recognised leader in the in-house legal community, she has been featured in The Legal 500 GC Powerlist and was recognised among India's Finest General Counsel 2024 by Legal Era.

Shalaka Patil is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Practice at Trilegal, based in Mumbai. She specialises in international and domestic arbitration, commercial litigation, insolvency and bankruptcy, and disputes advisory, and has represented clients in complex shareholder, construction, infrastructure, energy, licensing and investor-promoter disputes. Her arbitration experience spans both institutional (including SIAC, ICC, LCIA and DIAC) and ad hoc arbitrations, with seats in India as well as Singapore, Zurich, London and New York. She regularly appears before the Supreme Court of India, High Courts, NCLT/NCLAT and other tribunals, and has advised on bilateral investment treaties. An LL.M. graduate of Harvard Law School, she is admitted to practice in India and New York, serves on the Young MCIA Steering Committee, and has been recognised by Benchmark Litigation as a Future Star and by The Legal 500 for her arbitration practice.

Esha Chakravarty is the Group General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer at CtrlS Datacenters, where she leads the legal, compliance and governance functions across the CtrlS group, including its cloud services business. With over 17 years of experience, she advises on corporate and commercial transactions, regulatory compliance, data centre and technology law, privacy, litigation, risk management and corporate governance. Before joining CtrlS in 2022, she held senior legal leadership roles at Nuvoco Vistas Corp. Ltd., Datamatics Business Solutions, UPL Ltd. and Aegis (Essar Group), and began her career in private practice at Majmudar & Partners. She has been recognised among India's leading in-house counsel, including by Legal Era Women in Law Excellence Awards, and is a frequent speaker on corporate governance, compliance and technology law.

Janine Haesler is a Managing Associate in the Litigation and Arbitration practice at VISCHER AG, Zurich, Switzerland.

She advises and represents clients in complex international disputes, with particular experience in commercial, supply chain, commodity, pharmaceutical, construction and corporate disputes. She appears before arbitral tribunals, Swiss state courts and the Swiss Federal Supreme Court. Janine also acts as an arbitrator and tribunal secretary.

Janine combines her Swiss litigation and arbitration practice with a strong international focus, including extensive engagement with the arbitration community in Europe and Asia. She is a member of the Steering Committee of Young MCIA (YMCIA) and is actively involved in ArbitralWomen, ASA Below 40, Young ICCA and DIS/DIS40.

She holds a Master of Law from the University of Bern, an LL.M. in International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution from the National University of Singapore and a Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Arbitration from the Universities of Lucerne and Neuchâtel.

Richard is a member of our Management Board, the Head of our dispute resolution practice and Head of our London office. He has extensive expertise of handling complex, cross-border disputes and has wide ranging experience in international dispute resolution. He has significant extra-territorial experience in asset tracing and recovery and of representing parties in disputes in the High Court and Arbitration Tribunals, as well as numerous overseas courts including the Courts of Appeal of Hong Kong, Singapore and Gibraltar. He has 33 reported cases, has successfully overseen the applications for more than 300 injunctions and has, to date, been responsible for overseeing the recovery of approximately £3 billion’s worth of money and property for clients.

Richard has throughout his career acted for governments (both in the UK and overseas), corporate clients, financial institutions, and ultra-high-net-worth individuals. He also has extensive experience and deep sector knowledge in advising clients on innovative funding solutions to enable the pursuit of claims which otherwise would not be brought, as well as the litigation funding market and strong relationships with a number of litigation funders who regularly instruct Richard to both pursue claims on their behalf and to advise on the viability of funding potential claims.

Zal Andhyarujina is a Senior Advocate with a distinguished commercial disputes practice before the Supreme Court of India, the Bombay High Court and various tribunals. His practice focuses on international arbitration, commercial litigation, banking and finance, company law, insolvency and restructuring, and the enforcement of foreign awards and judgments. He regularly appears as counsel in high-value domestic and cross-border disputes and is recognised as one of India's leading commercial advocates. A Rhodes Scholar, he read Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford and has been consistently ranked by leading legal directories, including Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500, for his expertise in dispute resolution. He is also a Door Tenant at Fountain Court Chambers, London, reflecting his strong international arbitration practice.

Ananya Kumar is a Partner in the Disputes practice at JSA, Advocates & Solicitors, based in New Delhi. He has been practising law since 2003, having started his career as a chamber junior to Mr. K.K. Venugopal, Senior Advocate. He holds a B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, and an LL.M. from the London School of Economics, where he specialised in Alternative Dispute Resolution. Ananya's practice focuses on corporate and commercial litigation and dispute resolution, with particular emphasis on construction and engineering, oil and gas, infrastructure, and roads and highways-related arbitrations, both domestic and international. He regularly represents clients before the Supreme Court of India, High Courts and tribunals, and was recognised as a Recommended Lawyer in Legal 500 Asia Pacific and a Litigation Star in Benchmark Litigation.

Avinash Pradhan is the Head of Rajah & Tann Singapore’s International Arbitration Practice a Partner of Christopher & Lee Ong, Malaysia, a firm within the Rajah & Tann Asia network.

Receiving plaudits from Who’s Who Legal for his superb advocacy skills and ability to explain complex concepts easily, Avinash has wide-ranging experience in international arbitration, both institutional and ad hoc. He has also been recognised by Best Lawyers International and Asialaw Profiles for his abilities, while Legal 500 records that Avinash thinks around corners to chase down every avenue of attack.

Avinash’s experience encompasses a broad spectrum of commercial disputes, including banking, corporate finance, hospitality, M&A, joint venture and shareholder disputes. Avinash also has extensive experience of disputes in the construction, infrastructure & energy sectors. He is an accredited specialist for building and construction law, under the Singapore Academy of Law’s Specialist Accreditation Scheme. Avinash is also familiar with the techniques for dealing with cross-border disputes and disputes involving a conflict between international arbitration proceedings and court litigation.

Justice Hima Kohli enrolled as an Advocate in 1984 and practised before the High Court of Delhi in constitutional law, commercial disputes, and civil matters, before she was elevated to the Bench of the High Court of Delhi in 2006. On 07 January 2021, she was sworn in as the first woman Chief Justice of the High Court of the State of Telangana. On 31 August 2021, she was elevated to the Supreme Court of India as its ninth woman judge, and demitted office on 01 September 2024. Since demitting office, Justice Kohli has been actively serving as an arbitrator and mediator in various complex disputes. She is empanelled as an arbitrator with SIAC, DIAC, IIAC, and DMRC, and is a Specialist Mediator with SIMC. She also serves on several academic bodies, including the Princeton Foundation for Peace and Learning, the QMILC, and the School of Law at IILM University.

Dr. Mukul Shastry is the Group General Counsel at Cube Highways, a Singapore-headquartered platform that acquires and manages toll road assets across India, bringing over two decades of experience in legal practice, financial regulation and corporate leadership. He began his career as a litigating lawyer before the Rajasthan High Court in Jaipur, before completing a Ph.D. in Trade and Competition Law. He subsequently spent six years at the Reserve Bank of India across its Foreign Exchange and Banking Supervision departments, advising on policy matters and representing the RBI before tax authorities and the Government of India. After an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, he moved into corporate roles with KEC International, the RPG Group and Adani Ports and Logistics before joining Cube Highways. His practice today spans corporate M&A, IBC processes, PPP infrastructure, claims management and international commercial arbitration.

Priyanka Kapoor is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution team at Fieldfisher in London. Dual-qualified as an Advocate in India and a Solicitor in England & Wales, she joined Fieldfisher in 2022 from the London disputes boutique PCB Byrne, where she had also served as a partner. Priyanka specialises in commercial disputes, civil fraud and white-collar crime, with particular focus on matters connected to India, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Her practice covers cross-border and multi-jurisdictional disputes and investigations, asset tracing, recovery and enforcement, as well as economic sanctions, anti-corruption and anti-money laundering. Her client base includes global financial institutions and banks, Fortune 500 corporations, sovereign and state entities, and ultra-high-net-worth individuals. She regularly appears before the English courts and in international arbitration, and is recognised across multiple practice areas in the leading legal directories.

Shantanu Agarwal is the Founding and Managing Partner of Lexster Law LLP and a trial and arbitration lawyer with extensive experience in complex civil and commercial disputes, including high-value domestic and international arbitrations. His practice spans the energy, infrastructure, engineering and construction, agri-biotechnology, finance, pharmaceutical, and technology sectors.

He currently leads arbitrations involving claims ranging from USD 10 million to USD 750 million, covering BOT and BOOT projects, concession agreements, EPC and O&M contracts, renewable power projects in India and Africa, mortgage-backed finance, mining concessions, and large-scale real estate development. Shantanu also sits as an arbitrator in commercial disputes and serves as secretary to arbitral tribunals, particularly in the construction, engineering, and electric vehicle sectors. Having worked as counsel, arbitrator, and tribunal secretary, he brings a distinctive perspective to arbitration strategy, case management, tribunal procedure, and decision-making.

He regularly appears before the Supreme Court of India, High Courts, and regulatory forums and has been appointed amicus curiae by the Delhi High Court. His mandates include high-profile multi-billion-dollar family estate disputes, enforcement and challenge proceedings arising from major arbitrations, and sensitive defamation matters.

An active member of the international arbitration community, Shantanu speaks and moderates at leading arbitration forums. He co-moderated Navigating Multiparty and Cross-Border Disputes in Mega Project Arbitration at Dubai Arbitration Week 2025.

Abhileen Chaturvedi is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution Practice at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, based in Mumbai. With over 12 years of experience, he advises and represents clients on domestic and cross-border disputes across sectors including banking and finance, construction, energy, infrastructure, mining, technology, and telecom, appearing before Indian judicial forums in India as well as institutional and ad hoc arbitral tribunals. His practice extends to commercial and white-collar crime litigation, insolvency-related disputes, and advising clients on treaty claims arising under India's Bilateral Investment Treaties. He previously practised as a Partner at Economic Laws Practice and has served on the Young MCIA Steering Committee.

Karthik Somasundram heads the Litigation, Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Practice at Spice Route Legal. With over 20 years of experience, Karthik has extensive expertise in handling complex commercial, regulatory, and insolvency disputes across sectors, including global industry giants.

With his industry knowledge, forged through vast experience in dispute resolution, Karthik routinely represents clients before various judicial and dispute resolution forums, including prestigious bodies such as the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), the Supreme Court of India, and the Bombay High Court. He is also a member of the ICDR India Committee.

His prowess in handling disputes has been recognised by prestigious legal directories, including Chambers and Partners, Legal 500, and Benchmark Litigation.

Kingshuk Banerjee is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution practice at Khaitan & Co., based in Mumbai. He specialises in domestic and international arbitration and advises and represents clients in complex commercial, corporate and contractual disputes. His experience spans disputes arising from M&A transactions, shareholders’ and joint venture agreements, financial services, maritime transactions, international trade, insurance claims, construction contracts and large real-estate transactions.

He is recognised as a leading arbitration practitioner by several international legal directories, including Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, Benchmark Litigation, Lexology and Who’s Who Legal. He has been recognised as a Distinguished Practitioner by Asialaw and has received the Lexology Client Choice Award for Arbitration in India in 2021, 2022 and 2025. Kingshuk is a member of the International Bar Association, International Council for Commercial Arbitration, Bombay Bar Association, Bombay Incorporated Law Society and Commercial Bar Association (COMBAR).

Ramesh is a Partner in Allen & Gledhill’s International Arbitration, Litigation and Private Wealth practices. Called to the Singapore Bar in 2008, he holds an LL.B. (Hons) from the National University of Singapore. Ramesh maintains a broad commercial disputes practice, with particular expertise in shareholder and joint venture disputes, banking disputes, disputes concerning the supply of goods or services, and property-related matters, and has more recently acted in disputes arising from trust arrangements and cryptocurrency dealings. He has appeared as lead counsel at all levels of the Singapore court system, including the Singapore International Commercial Court, as well as in Singapore-seated arbitrations. He is recognised in Lexology Index, Benchmark Litigation and The Legal 500 Asia Pacific as a strong disputes practitioner.

Sneha Jaisingh is a Partner and Practice Lead of the Disputes Practice Group at Bharucha & Partners. She is a multifaceted disputes practitioner with extensive experience appearing before various tribunals including the LCIA, SIAC, ICC and MCIA as well as across Courts in India. Her practice focuses on commercial disputes, international and domestic arbitration, and regulatory and compliance matters. She has represented clients in complex arbitrations involving major infrastructure projects, including the construction of refineries and the laying of gas and oil pipelines. Her experience also extends to environmental liabilities, insurance claims, employment law, telecommunications, and securities regulation.

Alim Khamis is a recognised leader in arbitration, having acted for clients across the Middle East, Central Asia, Canada and Australia. Alim is a dual-qualified lawyer (Australia and Canada) and has been based in the Middle East for a decade. He specialises in high-value construction and commercial disputes, ranging from infrastructure and major projects (e.g., roads, rail and airports) to commercial disputes regarding distribution, shareholder's rights, joint venture disputes and enforcement matters. His clients include multinational consortia, engineering firms, public entities and family offices. A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Alim has arbitrated cases with the Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC) and the Abu Dhabi Arbitration Centre (arbitrateAD). He is also a member of the National Conciliation and Arbitration Board established by His Highness the Aga Khan.

Khushboo is a Partner with Al Tamimi & Company based in Dubai and she specialises in infrastructure, construction, energy, JV and technology disputes and arbitrations. She has worked on gas pipelines, solar power plants, World Cup stadiums, complex margin trades, digital assets and other prominent development projects, where the value of the dispute has exceeded USD 1 billion. Khushboo works with leading experts and has extensive experience in both civil and common law arbitrations. She has also argued cases before arbitral tribunals and the Singapore courts. In addition, Khushboo has been appointed as chair of arbitral tribunals, party-nominated and sole arbitrator in commercial and construction arbitrations.

Khushboo has been ranked as the top 50 lawyers in the Asian Legal Business 2024, a Global Elite Thought Leaders Under 45 in Arbitration and Future Leader in Construction in Lexology (formerly Who’s Who Legal). She was recently shortlisted for the IFLR Women in Business Law Awards 2025. Khushboo’s clients describe her as a stand out performer in this team. She is commercially minded with outstanding legal skills and a work ethic that is second to none.

Khushboo frequently speaks in conferences and publishes on topics relating to international dispute resolution. She also serves in various arbitration and construction related committees.

Khushboo graduated with an LL.B. (Hons) from King’s College London and has a LL.M. from Columbia Law School where she graduated as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.

Shri Venkatesh is the Founding Partner of SKV Law Offices and a leading practitioner in dispute resolution, arbitration and regulatory litigation. His practice focuses on complex commercial and infrastructure disputes, with extensive experience in matters involving energy, infrastructure, construction, large-scale projects and highly regulated sectors.

He has represented major corporates, infrastructure developers, energy companies and public sector entities in domestic and international arbitration, commercial litigation and regulatory proceedings, and has appeared before the Supreme Court of India, High Courts, arbitral tribunals and specialised regulatory and appellate forums.

His experience at the intersection of arbitration, infrastructure, energy regulation and complex commercial contracts gives him a particularly strong perspective on disputes involving cross-border investments and international counterparties. He regularly advises clients on dispute strategy, contractual risk, regulatory challenges and the resolution and enforcement of complex commercial claims.

Varuna Bhanrale is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution practice at Trilegal, based in Delhi, specialising in high-stakes commercial disputes. She was promoted to the partnership in October 2023 after being recognised as one of the firm's rising arbitration practitioners. Varuna advises on complex cross-border and domestic disputes, devising strategy that blends pre-litigation and pre-arbitration action with formal proceedings, while remaining closely attuned to her clients' underlying commercial objectives. She has extensive experience representing clients in institutional and ad-hoc arbitrations and before Indian courts, including the Supreme Court, various High Courts, trial courts and tribunals.

Bindi Dave is the Co-Managing Partner at Wadia Ghandy & Co, one of India's oldest law firms, where she also leads the firm's Disputes practice. She specialises in corporate commercial litigation and arbitration, handling both domestic and international matters across a range of sectors. Bindi was appointed Co-Managing Partner in April 2024 alongside Marylou Bilawala, Ashish Ahuja, Dhawal Mehta and Shabnum Kajiji as the firm strengthened its leadership base. She holds a law degree from the Government Law College, Mumbai, and is a Solicitor from the Bombay Incorporated Law Society. Bindi is recognised as a leading disputes lawyer. Bindi regularly appears before the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India, the Hon’ble Bombay High Court, Arbitral Tribunals and other forums, representing clients in complex corporate commercial litigations and arbitrations.

Nicholas Peacock is an Independent Advocate and Arbitrator based in London, practising under his own name, Peacock Arbitration. An English law qualified solicitor-advocate, he spent over 25 years in international law firms before commencing independent practice, most recently as head of the international arbitration practice at Bird & Bird, and before that as a partner and head of India disputes at Herbert Smith Freehills, where he also led the Singapore arbitration practice between 2009 and 2012. Nicholas has been extensively involved in India-related commercial disputes for the past 15 years. He sits as arbitrator across multiple jurisdictions and legal systems, having been appointed under ICC, LCIA, SIAC, HKIAC, and UNCITRAL rules as well as pure ad hoc, and also acts as advocate and adviser. His expertise spans technology, pharmaceuticals, energy, media and financial services.

Dawn Tan Ly-Ru is the Founding and Managing Director of ADTLaw LLC and heads its disputes practice. She is also Managing Director of Ashurst ADTLaw, a Formal Law Alliance between ADTLaw LLC and Ashurst LLP. She is tri-qualified in Singapore, England & Wales and New York State, and is an experienced arbitration and litigation practitioner. Dawn has represented leading corporates in complex, high-profile, multijurisdictional disputes involving energy and resources, joint ventures, shareholders and M&A. She has appeared at all levels of the Singapore courts and acted as lead counsel in international arbitrations. She holds an LL.B. with First Class Honours from the National University of Singapore and an LL.M. with academic distinction from Harvard Law School, and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators.

Karthik Balisagar is a Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting, based in London, within the Economic and Financial Consulting segment. He has 19 years of experience in valuation and transaction consulting, specialising in valuation and damages issues in the context of international arbitration and litigation. Karthik has advised banks, private equity firms, institutional investors and corporates across sectors including financial services, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, mining and technology, in both contentious and non-contentious matters. He has been appointed as an expert witness in numerous arbitration and litigation matters, preparing expert reports for submission to courts in Singapore, the UK, the Netherlands and the EU, as well as in arbitrations under ICC, HKIAC, ICSID, UNCITRAL and LCIA rules. He holds a B.Sc. in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics from Bangalore University and an M.A. in International Business and International Finance from Amity University.

Shweta Bharti is the Managing Partner at Hammurabi & Solomon Partners, with over 24 years of litigation experience across nearly every High Court in India, the Supreme Court, the Competition Commission of India, NCLTs, NCLATs and TDSAT, including pathbreaking work on reverse insolvency. She also represents clients before arbitral institutions such as the ICC, SIAC and LCIA, with expertise spanning dispute resolution, insolvency, real estate, environmental law and corporate commercial advisory. She authored a two-volume treatise on the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, forewarded by Justice A.K. Sikri and Dr. M.S. Sahoo. She holds an LL.B. from the University of Delhi, dual MBAs, an LL.M. from Jindal Global Law School, and is a Harvard Business School alumna. She serves as India's Jurisdictional Council Member for the Inter-Pacific Bar Association, and is consistently recognised by Benchmark Litigation, Legal 500 and India Business Law Journal as a leading practitioner.

Eraldo is a Partner and Solicitor Advocate at London boutique disputes firm, Humphries Kerstetter. A Legal 500 (2026) Recommended Lawyer who has over 16 years of experience in international arbitration, having handled LCIA, ICC, SIAC, and ad hoc arbitrations across all major global centres. A native Italian speaker, also fluent in Spanish, he was previously at magic circle firm, Clifford Chance for 14 years.

Eraldo has experience with a broad range of matters and industries, but is particularly focused on financial and private equity disputes, as well the tech and energy sectors. He regularly acts for and against banks and financial institutions, global corporates and funds.

Baiju Vasani is a Barrister and Arbitrator at Twenty Essex, London, and a renowned leader in investor-state dispute settlement, international commercial arbitration and public international law. Before joining the Bar in November 2022, he spent 20 years in international law firm practice, including 12 years as partner, leading the international arbitration practices of major American law firms in London, Washington DC and, until February 2022, Moscow, where he led the Russian Federation's defence in six major investment treaty arbitrations. His treaty practice spans representation of states and investors under the ICSID and UNCITRAL Rules, including seminal cases on treaty succession, disputed territories and the effect of alleged illegality on arbitral jurisdiction. He holds four law degrees, including an LLM from LSE and a BCL from Oxford, and is a Professor of Practice at SOAS, University of London.

Rahul Donde is an independent arbitrator and counsel with nearly two decades of experience in international commercial and investment arbitration, qualified in India and based in Switzerland and India. He founded Rahul Donde Dispute Resolution in Geneva in 2024, after twelve years at Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler, the leading Geneva arbitration boutique, and opened a second office in Mumbai in 2026, giving the practice a footprint in both Europe and India. He has acted as arbitrator, counsel and tribunal secretary in over 45 international arbitration proceedings under ad hoc and institutional rules including UNCITRAL, ICC, ICSID, LCIA, Swiss Rules, SIAC, HKIAC, and MCIA with particular experience in commercial and corporate disputes. He is an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, and is fluent in English, Marathi and Hindi with a working proficiency in French. He has been recognised as a 'Future Leader' and 'Global Elite Thought Leader' for arbitration under 45 by Lexology Index.

Shaneen Parikh is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution practice at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co (SAM), specialising in International Arbitration and based in Mumbai. A dual-qualified Advocate and Solicitor with over three decades of experience, She is a Solicitor in India and in the Supreme Court of England and Wales, an Advocate-on-Record before the Supreme Court of India, a Registered Foreign Lawyer at the Singapore International Commercial Court, and is registered with the Abu Dhabi Global Market Courts and the Dubai International Financial Centre. Shaneen has acted as both counsel and arbitrator in international arbitrations seated outside India and under the rules of various international arbitral institutions.

Srishti Jain is a Managing Associate at Humphries Kerstetter LLP, London, triple-qualified as a Solicitor-Advocate in England & Wales, a New York attorney and an Advocate in India. She has practised law since 2013, focusing on cross-border commercial disputes including financial, contractual, shareholder and post-M&A disputes, insolvency, fraud, professional negligence and enforcement of foreign awards and judgments, across sectors such as banking, mining, oil and gas, telecommunications, construction and pharmaceuticals. She has represented clients before the High Courts, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court of England & Wales, acted in LCIA, ICC, SIAC and AAA arbitrations, and advised investors and states in ICSID investment treaty arbitrations. Prior to joining HK, Srishti spent 12 years at leading law firms in London, New York and India, and holds an LL.M. from Cornell Law School. She is recognised as a 'Leading Associate' in the 2026 UK edition of Legal 500.

Vishrov Mukerjee is a Partner in Trilegal's Dispute Resolution and Arbitration practice, based in Delhi. He has over 15 years of experience across regulatory disputes, arbitration in the infrastructure sector, and commercial litigation. Vishrov has handled several precedent-setting matters involving change-in-law claims, the regulatory powers of Electricity Commissions, compensatory mechanisms for cancellation of coal blocks, and reopening of renewable PPAs. He regularly represents renewable power companies on issues such as tariff reduction and recovery, curtailment, contract cancellation, and force majeure claims arising from COVID-19 and supply-chain disruptions. Vishrov joined Trilegal as Partner in 2022 from J. Sagar Associates, and was earlier a Partner there since 2016. He holds an LL.B. from the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), Kolkata.

Bitika Kaur leads the Litigation, Real Estate and Regulatory Practice at Apraava Energy, based in Mumbai, where she manages dispute resolution land and regulatory matters for the company's power and infrastructure portfolio. She has been recognised by Legal Era as a rising star and was recently named a recipient of the IESA 40 Under 40 Excellence Award 2026 by the India Energy Storage Alliance, honouring young professionals who have made exceptional contributions to India's clean energy ecosystem. Bitika holds her legal education from the University of Calcutta and remains actively engaged with academic and professional legal communities.

Mahesh Vipradas is Vice President – Regulatory Affairs and Power Markets at Sembcorp India, with over 23 years of experience in renewable power generation spanning resource assessment, market studies, planning, and policy and regulatory affairs. He works extensively on power market projections, procurement, tariffs, and evacuation arrangements for both conventional and renewable power, and has advised on regulatory issues in South Asian markets including Sri Lanka and Bhutan. Prior to Sembcorp, he spent nine years at Suzlon Energy and eleven years at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). Mahesh also serves as Vice President of the Wind Independent Power Producers Association (WIPPA) India. He holds an M.Tech in Energy Studies and an M.Sc. in Physics from IIT Delhi.

Namrata Arora is the General Counsel & Chief Ethics Officer at BluPine Energy, where she leads legal, compliance, ethics, and corporate governance across the organisation. With 18+ years of experience in corporate and energy law, she brings deep expertise in advising large-scale infrastructure and renewable energy projects in India.

At BluPine Energy, Namrata plays a key role in supporting business strategy through robust legal frameworks, contract management, and stakeholder engagement. Her experience spans project development, power purchase agreements (PPAs), EPC and O&M contracts, project financing, regulatory advisory, and commercial dispute resolution.

Before BluPine, she held senior in-house roles at Enel Green Power India, advising on wind, solar, hydro, and conventional power projects. Namrata holds a BA LLB (Hons) and a postgraduate qualification in Antitrust and Competition Law and has completed executive leadership programs at Wharton. She is known for her strong commercial judgment, pragmatic legal approach, and ability to align legal strategy with business outcomes

Sunei Kapur is the Chief Business Officer at Resolven, where he leads the company's commercial strategy, business structuring, partnerships, and growth initiatives. He brings over 15 years of experience across infrastructure and renewable energy, combining legal expertise with strong commercial and regulatory acumen. Prior to Resolven, Sunei served as General Counsel at O2 Power, and has also held roles at ReNew Power and HSA Advocates. He is an active voice in India's renewable energy industry, regularly contributing to industry forums and associations focused on wind and clean power policy.

Ajay Pratap Singh is the General Counsel at Ashok Leyland Limited, appointed effective April 21, 2026, as part of the company's Senior Management Personnel. A dual-qualified professional holding both LLB and FCS credentials, he studied at the Faculty of Law, North Campus, Delhi University, and received specialised training in Competition Law from the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, New Delhi. With over 26 years of experience spanning mergers and acquisitions, compliance and corporate governance, he most recently led the legal, compliance and secretarial functions at Sona BLW Precision Forgings Limited (Sona Comstar). His career also includes senior legal leadership roles at Hero Motors, the Jaypee Group, Lafarge India and Hindustan Construction Company, spanning the automotive, cement, infrastructure and construction sectors.

Sae Youn Kim is a senior member of the International Arbitration and Cross-Border Litigation Practice at Kim & Chang in Seoul, practising primarily in international litigation and arbitration with an emphasis on commercial and international law. Before joining Kim & Chang in 2019, she served as a judge at various Korean district courts and practised at major Korean law firms including Lee & Ko and Yulchon. She currently sits as a Court Member of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre and a Council Member of the Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration, and served as President of the Korean Council for International Arbitration from 2024 to 2026. She holds an LL.M. from Duke University School of Law and an LL.B. from Seoul National University, and is consistently ranked as a leading arbitration practitioner by Chambers Global, Legal 500 and Who's Who Legal.

Yoshie Midorikawa is a Co-Founding Partner at Miura & Partners in Japan, where she has led the firm's international dispute resolution practice since its launch in 2019. Admitted to the bar in Japan in 2007 and in New York in 2015, she has experience in international arbitration under the ICC, ICSID, HKIAC, SIAC, LCIA and UNCITRAL rules, advising clients across real estate, construction, engineering, manufacturing, trade, finance and telecommunications. Before co-founding Miura & Partners, she trained at Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, and gained international experience on secondment to Allen & Gledhill in Singapore and at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. She holds a J.D. from the University of Tokyo and an LL.M. from Columbia Law School, and serves as an independent director on the boards of several listed Japanese companies. She has been recognised as Dispute Lawyer of the Year at the ALB Japan Law Awards 2025, as a Notable Practitioner for Dispute Resolution by asialaw, and as a Next Generation Partner for Dispute Resolution by Legal 500 Asia Pacific.

Joanne is the Secretary-General of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre. As HKIAC’s principal officer, she leads the Secretariat and is responsible for the overall management of the centre, including overseeing its international dispute resolution services and operations across its Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai and Seoul offices. She also works closely with the HKIAC Council and committees in the development and implementation of HKIAC’s strategies and initiatives.

Prior to joining the HKIAC, Joanne was a Partner at Allen & Overy, specialising in international arbitration for over a decade. As counsel, she represented clients in both international commercial arbitrations and investment treaty arbitrations in a wide variety of cases, across multiple sectors, jurisdictions, and arbitral rules. She also regularly advised on arbitration-related court matters and sat as arbitrator. Joanne is qualified in Hong Kong and England & Wales.

Moazzam Khan is an Advocate at the Chambers of Moazzam Khan, New Delhi, and an Executive Member of the Arbitration Bar of India (ABI) Council. He began his career at Bhasin & Co in 2007, before joining Nishith Desai Associates in February 2012, where he went on to head the firm's Global Litigation Practice. He moved to independent counsel practice in 2022.

A J Jawad is a seasoned advocate with 38 years of experience in the legal field and a distinguished Senior Mediator and Trainer with over 18 years of expertise in civil, commercial, international, and matrimonial mediations. He serves as a Senior Mediator-Trainer with the Mediation and Conciliation Project Committee of the Supreme Court of India and the Tamil Nadu Mediation and Conciliation Centre at the High Court of Madras, having developed and delivered Train-the-Trainer programmes. He has conducted mediation workshops at the National Judicial Academy, Bhopal, and the Tamil Nadu Judicial Academy, including training for newly recruited civil judges. Mr. Jawad is an empanelled mediator with the Bombay Chamber of Commerce and an empanelled arbitrator with the Madras High Court, with extensive experience in cross-border mediations. He has also served as global faculty for ADR ODR International, UK, leading mediation training at universities in India and the UK. He currently serves as the CEO and Registrar at the International Arbitration and Mediation Centre (IAMC), Hyderabad.

Karishma Vora is a Barrister at 39 Essex Chambers with a strong commercial disputes and civil fraud practice, representing companies and individuals before the Commercial Court and in arbitration. She specialises in banking, private equity, M&A, breach of guarantee, and fraud disputes, with sector expertise spanning defence, metals, mining, technology, crypto, and pharmaceuticals. Triple qualified in England, India, and the DIFC, she is ranked by Legal 500 in banking and finance, commercial litigation, civil fraud, and Middle East commercial litigation. Karishma is instructed as counsel and arbitrator in disputes under LCIA, ICC, SIAC, LME, RSA, LMAA, ICA, and MCIA rules, and is empanelled as arbitrator with several of these institutions. She serves on the boards of the LME and ICA, is a member of the ICA's International Advisory Committee, and sits on COMBAR's India and Middle East sub-committees. She is a CEDR accredited mediator and an LSE alumna.

Navin Kumar Singh is the Chief Executive Officer of the India International Arbitration Centre (IIAC), New Delhi, bringing extensive legal and executive leadership experience to the institution. He holds an LL.B. from Banaras Hindu University, an LL.M. from the University of Delhi and an MBA from the S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research. Before joining IIAC, Navin spent his career as a practicing lawyer at Delhi District Courts, High Court of Delhi, and the Supreme Court of India and as an In-house counsel in Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (a Maharatna Oil & Gas PSU), where he rose to the rank of General Manager (Legal), leading key initiatives in corporate governance, contract management and dispute resolution. At IIAC, he provides strategic direction on institutional arbitration and has spoken widely on India's arbitration landscape in various National and International conferences.

Renu Gupta is a Co-Founding Partner of Olive Law, a boutique disputes chamber; and has over 18 years of experience in commercial litigation and arbitration. She appears before arbitral tribunals and courts in complex, high-stakes matters and also sits as an arbitrator. She is the founder of the legal research platform Ask Junior. Renu holds a B.S.L. LL.B. from Symbiosis International University, Pune and an LL.M. in International Business Law from LSE. She speaks and writes regularly on arbitration and disputes, including at India ADR Week, and also conducts workshops on law of contracts, arbitration and other subjects.

Andrew Cannon is a Partner at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer based in London, where he is Global Co-Head of the firm's International Arbitration practice and Co-Head of its Public International Law practice. He also leads the firm's India Disputes Group. Andrew read law at Cambridge University and joined Herbert Smith in 1997, later working as a legal adviser to the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, including postings to the UK's representations to the United Nations in New York and the European Union in Brussels. A fluent French speaker, he has also worked in the firm’s Paris office. He has acted in ad hoc and institutional arbitrations across multiple jurisdictions under the rules of all major arbitral institutions, alongside high-profile litigation before bodies including the Court of Justice of the EU, the UK Supreme Court and the House of Lords, and is ranked in all major directories, including the Legal 500 UK Hall of Fame for both International Arbitration and Public International Law.

Sheila Ahuja KC is a Partner at A&O Shearman in Singapore, where she co-leads the firm’s Asian arbitration practice and is joint chair of its India Group. One of the foremost arbitration practitioners in the Asia-Pacific region, she was appointed King's Counsel in March 2025, the only solicitor-advocate among that year's 105 KC appointments and the sole successful candidate among five solicitors who applied. With over two decades of experience, Sheila advises clients on complex international commercial arbitrations and investor-state disputes across the Asia-Pacific region, with particular expertise in disputes arising from joint ventures, distributorship arrangements, complex financial products, and energy and infrastructure projects. She regularly appears as lead counsel before courts and tribunals and sits as arbitrator under SIAC, HKIAC, ICC, UNCITRAL, ICSID, LCIA and DIAC rules, and notably advised Shell and Reliance in UNCITRAL proceedings against the Government of India worth over USD 5 billion.

Bhavya Mohan is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution practice at Argus Partners, based in Bengaluru, having joined the firm in June 2022. With over a decade of experience in commercial dispute resolution, she advises private clients, public sector enterprises and multinational corporations across sectors including manufacturing, infrastructure, banking, technology, real estate and private equity. Bhavya has represented clients in domestic and international arbitrations, both ad hoc and institutional, under the rules of the ICC, SIAC and LCIA, and has appeared in complex commercial litigation before the Supreme Court and High Courts across India, as well as before specialised tribunals such as SAT, NCLT and DRT/DRAT. She also advises on regulatory investigations, and successfully represented the BCCI in Byju's insolvency proceedings. Before joining Argus, she practised at Arista Chambers, AZB & Partners and Amarchand Mangaldas. She holds a B.A.LL.B. from NLSIU Bangalore and an LL.M. from Columbia Law School.

Dhyan Chinnappa is a Senior Advocate at the Karnataka High Court and was founder of CrestLaw Partners, a law firm with offices in Bangalore and Chennai. Enrolled as an Advocate in July 1998, he was designated Senior Advocate by the Karnataka High Court in 2014, becoming the youngest lawyer in the State to receive that designation, and a Solicitor of England & Wales until 2014. He graduated top of his class in the B.A.L., LL.B. from University Law College, Bangalore, and won the Shell Centenary Scholarship in 2002 for an LL.M. at University College, London. He has since served as Additional Advocate General for Karnataka. His practice spans constitutional and commercial litigation and arbitration, with particular experience in construction, joint venture, IP and power project disputes, appearing before the Supreme Court and High Courts, and is highly rated by Chambers Asia-Pacific and Legal 500.

Poornima Hatti is an independent Counsel, Arbitrator and Mediator practising from the Chambers of Poornima Hatti in Bengaluru. She previously headed the dispute resolution practice at Samvad Partners where she was also a founding partner. Poornima holds degrees from the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), the London School of Economics and a fellowship from the University of Oxford. Poornima's broad practice encompasses corporate, commercial and infrastructure-related disputes, both domestic and international. She sits as an arbitrator with a numbers Indian and international institutions including the MCIA, the SIAC, the ICC and the Arbitration and Conciliation Centre, Bangalore.

Clients value her clarity, pragmatism and ability to grasp the overall commercial picture behind a dispute. She is recognised as a leading practitioner for Dispute Resolution and Labour & Employment by Legal 500, Chambers and Partners, India Business Law Journal among others. Ms. Hatti has also been recognised by Chambers and Partners and JP Morgan, Asia Pacific as among the leading lawyers contributing towards diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.

Kirtan Prasad is a Partner at RPC in London, specialising in international arbitration and complex commercial and financial services disputes, particularly matters with a cross-border dimension. She is qualified to practise in Singapore, New York State, and England & Wales, having previously practised in Singapore before moving to London. Her experience spans commercial litigation and arbitrations under the LCIA, ICC, SIAC, DIAC, SCMA and ICSID Rules, as well as ad hoc proceedings, acting for sovereigns, financial institutions, hedge funds, energy companies and multinational businesses.

Kirtan is particularly recognised for her work on India-related disputes and is ranked as a Next Generation Partner for International Arbitration in The Legal 500 UK 2026. Her recent matters include significant cross-border disputes involving sovereigns, financial institutions, sanctions and international investments.

Patrick Taylor is a Partner in the International Dispute Resolution Group at Debevoise & Plimpton, based in the firm's London and Paris offices, and Co-Chair of its Africa practice. Qualified as a solicitor-advocate in England & Wales and Ireland, he has advised and represented clients in disputes worldwide for over 20 years, with particular experience in the upstream oil & gas, energy, pharmaceuticals and telecommunications sectors, and tax-related disputes. He has acted in arbitrations under ICSID, LCIA, ICC and UNCITRAL rules, most frequently in matters spanning Africa, Eastern Europe, Russia and the CIS, and increasingly Latin America. He was appointed a Member of the LCIA Court in June 2024 and a Member of the Council of the Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration in September 2024. Bilingual in English and French and fluent in Spanish, he is recognised by Chambers & Partners and Legal 500.

Shivani Sanghi is a Partner in the Business and Commercial Disputes team at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) in London, where she also leads the firm's India Practice. Dual-qualified as a Solicitor-Advocate in England & Wales and as an Advocate in India, she graduated from NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, in 2009 and began her career practising in Delhi before moving to London in 2010, practising at SJ Berwin, Fried Frank, Covington & Burling and Fieldfisher, before joining BCLP in September 2024. She has over 15 years' experience resolving complex, high-value, cross-border commercial litigations and international arbitrations across jurisdictions including India, the Middle East, Russia and the Caribbean. She has appeared before the English High Court, Court of Appeal and UK Supreme Court, and in arbitrations under ICC, LCIA, SCC and SIAC rules, and features in India Business Law Journal's International A-List for the third consecutive year.

Binsy is a Partner in the Arbitration and Dispute Resolution practice at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co., New Delhi, India. She has more than two decades of experience in institutional arbitrations under the rules of AAA, ICC, SIAC, LCIA and CAM-CCBC, as well as domestic ad hoc proceedings in India. She has acted for leading global corporations across sectors including technology, media, telecom, construction, infrastructure, oil & gas and aviation, in arbitrations seated in New York, London, Singapore, São Paulo, and India. She regularly advises on high-value disputes, including large-scale construction contracts, shareholder rights and M&A transactions, enforcement of arbitral awards across jurisdictions, and technology-related disputes. She acts as an arbitrator empanelled with the American Arbitration Association – International Centre for Dispute Resolution (AAA-ICDR), as well as a mediator empanelled with the Singapore International Mediation Centre (SIMC). She also serves as a director on the Board of the Nani Palkhivala Arbitration Centre, India.

Srruthi Ilankathir is a Senior Associate in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice of Cavenagh Law LLP, part of the Clifford Chance Asia formal law alliance in Singapore. A graduate of the National University of Singapore's Faculty of Law, she has around 10 years of experience and specialises in complex, high-value commercial disputes, with extensive litigation, arbitration and advisory experience across local and cross-border matters. Her practice spans shareholder disputes, breaches of contract including joint venture, merger, lease, employment and banking agreements, breaches of fiduciary duty, fraud and conspiracy, damages, tax disputes, insolvency and obligations under investment and other treaties. Srruthi appears regularly before the Singapore High Court and Court of Appeal, acting as both solicitor on record and instructed counsel. She was recognised in Asian Legal Business's Rising Stars list in 2023.

Tariq Khan is Partner and Head of International Disputes at M&CO Legal, UAE. He holds rights of audience before the DIFC, AIFC and ADGM Courts. He regularly acts for sovereign-linked entities, multinational corporations and high-net-worth individuals across the Middle East, Asia and Europe. Tariq is also empanelled as an arbitrator with leading institutions including HKIAC, DIAC, SCCA, ADGM, AIAC, EODID, TIAC and RAC.

Vijayendra Pratap Singh is a Senior Partner and Head (Dispute Resolution) at AZB & Partners, Delhi. Vijayendra has spearheaded various arbitrations concerning shareholder agreements, infrastructure contracts, long term supply contracts as well as contracts relating to franchising and intellectual property. The arbitrations are both ad hoc as well as institutional and seated across multiple jurisdictions. He represented SIAC before the Supreme Court in the BALCO case (dealing with scope of judicial intervention with foreign seated arbitrations) and in the Re Interplay between arbitration agreements under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996 and the Indian Stamp Act 1899 case (impact of stamping on arbitrations). He has also represented Amazon in the much publicised dispute with Future Retail Limited which recognized the enforceability of a SIAC emergency arbitrator award in India.

Vijayendra is listed in various legal directories such as Chambers & Partners and Legal 500. He has been named as the Dispute Resolution Star of the Year by Benchmark Litigation Asia Pacific and has been named in the Global Arbitration Review. He has been involved with capacity building initiatives in the field of arbitration and is a visiting faculty at various Universities and Institutions. He has also appeared before Parliamentary committees looking at various laws, including India’s Model Bilateral Investment Treaty as well as the legal initiatives for Ease of Doing Business.

Campbell Jackson is the EY Global Claims & Disputes Leader, based in London, with over 25 years of specialist forensic and disputes experience. He leads EY's global practice advising corporations, governments and law firms on international arbitration, commercial litigation, expert determination, forensic accounting and complex investigations. A Chartered Accountant, he regularly acts as an independent expert witness, providing expert evidence and testimony before arbitral tribunals, courts and other dispute resolution forums across multiple jurisdictions. His international experience spans the United Kingdom, United States, Europe and Asia-Pacific, including three years based in Japan, and he has advised on high-value disputes across sectors including banking and finance, insurance, energy, infrastructure, consumer products and manufacturing. He is consistently recognised by Lexology Index (formerly Who's Who Legal) as a leading expert witness in arbitration and forensic accounting.

Nusrat Hassan is a dual-qualified lawyer admitted in India and England & Wales and a Chevening Scholar with over three decades of experience in dispute resolution including in international arbitration.

He has advised and represented clients in sophisticated cross-border disputes spanning the technology, telecom, manufacturing, securities, and shareholder sectors, including arbitrations under LCIA, ICC and SIAC Rules. He currently serves as the Chairman Emeritus of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators India and is a Fellow of the Institution. Nusrat is a Founding Member of the Indian Arbitration Forum. He is also empanelled as an arbitrator with several institutions including the Beijing Arbitration Commission and the Maldives International Arbitration Centre. Nusrat is particularly recognised for his international outlook, institutional arbitration expertise, and nuanced handling of multi-jurisdictional commercial disputes. He has also been recognised by leading legal directories for his expertise in arbitration and dispute resolution.

Abhishek Thanvi is a Senior Director (Legal) at BNY in Mumbai, working within the bank's legal function. He is an alumnus of the National Law University, Jodhpur. Before joining BNY, he held legal roles at JP Morgan Chase & Co. where he served as Head of Legal, India Client Center and Assistant General Counsel, as well as at Apple, Societe Generale, SC Johnson & Son, Seismic and Freshworks, building experience across technology, consumer goods and financial services sectors. His practice spans corporate and commercial legal advisory, contract negotiation, and legal risk management within global organisations. He is active in India's legal and business community, engaging with law firms and industry initiatives on corporate governance and General Counsel networking.

Rashna Mistry is the General Counsel and Chief Ethics Counsellor at Tata Projects, based in Mumbai, where she also serves on the company's Managing Committee and leads the Legal, Contracts, Secretarial, Ethics, Compliance and Investigation functions, playing a pivotal role in shaping the company’s legal, governance and risk management frameworks. She brings over 30 years of experience in legal and contracts management, with extensive work on litigation, arbitration, regulatory and government investigations, and criminal and civil actions across multiple jurisdictions in India and abroad. With nearly three decades of experience, Rashna has consistently guided organizations through complex legal, regulatory, and compliance landscapes. Her expertise spans high-stakes litigation across multiple forums, strategic legal advisory for large-scale transactions, and effective engagement with government and regulatory bodies. She is widely recognized for her ability to align legal strategy with business objectives, delivering impactful solutions in dynamic and challenging environments. Before joining Tata Projects, she was Senior Director, Legal at Essar Capital Advisory, heading the Corporate Global Legal function, and earlier held senior legal and compliance roles at Standard Chartered Bank, including Head of Legal, Dispute Resolution (South Asia Region). She is featured on the Legal 500 GC Powerlist India.

Dr. Salman Al Tuweel is the Managing Partner of M&CO Legal, a law firm based in the Dubai International Financial Centre, UAE. An Emirati lawyer, he holds a Law and Economics Bachelor's degree from Al Jazeera University, Dubai, a Master's degree in Sports Law from the American University in the Emirates, and a Ph.D. in Sports Law obtained in Egypt in 2024. He is regarded as one of the UAE's first sports law practitioners, with extensive experience spanning governmental affairs, real estate development, ports and customs law, and dispute resolution. His practice covers full-cycle transactions, quality control and dispute resolution measures across construction, real estate and sports law, and he has advised entities including Nakheel and the Dubai Customs Authority on safety policies and regulatory frameworks for UAE construction sites. He writes and speaks on cross-border enforcement, including the enforcement of Indian arbitral awards and judgments in UAE courts.

Sharad Bansal is an independent Advocate practising before the Bombay High Court, the National Company Law Tribunal, the Real Estate Regulatory Authority, the Securities Appellate Tribunal and other courts and tribunals in Mumbai, specialising in civil and commercial litigation and arbitration. He is a graduate of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore, and holds a Master's in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS) from the Graduate Institute Geneva and the University of Geneva, where he finished at the top of his class. Before moving to independent counsel practice, he gained experience at Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co., Keystone Partners, and Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP. He is a contributing author to the Kluwer Arbitration Blog, writing on Indian arbitration law, including the enforcement of arbitral awards and appellate review of interim orders under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996. His articles on the applicability of foreign mandatory laws and the enforceability of arbitral awards set aside at the seat of arbitration have been cited by Gary Born in his commentary International Commercial Arbitration.

Tarini Srivastava is an Associate General Counsel at Worley, based in Mumbai, India, where she provides legal advisory support across Worley's businesses, including the energy, chemicals, and resources sectors, with a primary focus on shaping global litigation strategy. She previously served as Legal Counsel at Worley, supporting infrastructure projects and contract negotiations.

Prior to Worley, Tarini practiced as a Disputes Lawyer with LexArbitri, working extensively across the infrastructure, oil & gas, and energy sectors. Earlier in her career, she gained broad exposure through internships with leading firms in Mumbai and London, spanning a diverse range of legal environments, jurisdictions, and dispute resolution practices.

Tarini holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Queen Mary University of London and a BBA-LL.B. from Symbiosis International University.

Sanya Sud is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution team at Saraf and Partners, an alumna of the National Law University, Delhi (Batch of 2016). She has extensive experience representing domestic and foreign clients in arbitration and commercial litigation, including engineering companies acting as contractors and project management consultants in construction arbitrations across the oil and gas, roads, power and renewable energy sectors. She has also represented both lenders and borrowers in commercial and insolvency matters, appearing before the Supreme Court of India, High Courts, District Courts, Debt Recovery Tribunals, NCLTs and consumer fora. She was a research assistant with the Ministry of Home Affairs Committee for Reforms on Criminal Law, and holds a keen academic and practical interest in criminal law and white-collar crime. She was recognised in BW Legal World's '30 Under 30' list, and has appeared on the Business Standard Morning Show discussing regulatory developments.

Alipak runs a disputes boutique, Alipak Banerjee Law Chambers, in New Delhi, India. He specialises in international commercial, investment treaty arbitration, commercial, regulatory, and white-collar litigation. He has represented clients in complex, cross border arbitrations under all major reputed institutional rules, and seated in Singapore, Hong Kong, London, New York, New Delhi, Mumbai. He also acts for clients before the Supreme Court of India, as well as various high courts in India.

He was formerly the head of International Dispute Resolution at a top tiered firm in New Delhi. He also accepts arbitral appointments and is currently empanelled with leading arbitral institutions including SIAC, DIAC, AAA/ICDR and HKIAC. He currently serves as Secretary of the IBA’s Professional Ethics Committee. He has contributed to the IBA Arbitration & Insolvency Toolkit (2021, 2024) and was a Steering Committee member at IBA Arb 40 (2020–2023). He has also authored a report on Emergency Arbitration, authored by the IBA Arbitration Committee and IBA Arb 40.

His recognition includes Lexology Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration Future Leaders – Partners (2024, 2025); Global Elite (2025); Chambers and Partners – International Arbitration, Litigation and White Collar Crimes and Corporate Investigations; Asia Law – Distinguished Practitioner (2024, 2025, 2026), Rising Star (2022, 2023); and Benchmark Litigation and Legal 500 (2022–2026).

Abhishek Goyal is the Co-Founder, Vice Chairman and Executive Director of Tracxn, a market intelligence platform providing data on private companies, which he co-founded with Neha Singh in 2013. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (2002), and began his career as a software programmer at Yahoo and Amazon in India, before moving into venture capital at Accel. He previously founded UrbanTouch, an online beauty retailer, in 2011. Under his leadership, Tracxn secured funding from investors including 3one4 Capital, Elevation Capital and Prime Venture Partners, and went public on the NSE in October 2022, becoming one of the few venture-backed Indian startups to list. He is also an active angel investor, with a portfolio of over 165 companies including Delhivery and Pratilipi. He was recognised in Fortune India's '40 Under 40' list in both 2018 and 2019.

Navneet Hrishikesan is Senior Director, Legal (Asia Pacific & Japan, Service Provider) and General Counsel (India & South Asia) at Cisco Systems. With over two decades of legal experience, he has progressed through several legal roles at Cisco, including Senior Corporate Counsel supporting the Worldwide Service Provider and Advanced Services divisions. Before Cisco, he was General Counsel (Americas) at Wipro prior to which he worked at the London City law firm Simmons & Simmons and consumer goods company GlaxoSmithKline. He holds a B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) from the National Law School of India University. He is a member of the Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration's User Council, has contributed to 'In-house Matters: A Complete Handbook for the Modern General Counsel', and has been featured on the Legal 500 GC Powerlist India for the past several years.

Ramanand Mundkur is an independent director and M&A lawyer with over three decades of experience across banking, finance, and complex cross-border transactions. He serves on the board of The Federal Bank Limited, one of India’s leading listed private-sector banks, where he chairs the stakeholder relationship committee and is a member of the audit committee and the nomination, remuneration, and ethics committee, and where he spent four years on the bank’s credit and investment committee. He is also an independent director on the board of Fermenta Biotech Limited, a listed life-sciences company that is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of vitamin D3 (for human consumption) — giving him listed company board experience in both a highly regulated financial institution and a regulated manufacturing business.

Ramanand is the co-founder and managing partner of Mundkur Law Partners, a boutique corporate law firm, where he has been individually recognized as a leading M&A lawyer. Earlier, he spent five years as counsel at the International Monetary Fund, in Washington DC, advising on financial sector policy, institutional governance reform, and IMF lending and technical assistance to countries across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, and four years at the United Nations, in Geneva, where he led a team resolving 2,750 banking and business reparations claims worth over US$11 billion.

He is qualified to practice law in New York and India and holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School (with a concentration in international finance and financial systems) and an honors law degree from the National Law School of India University (where he topped the university’s graduating class, winning seven academic gold medals).

Sandeep Das is a Partner at Touchstone Partners and an Advocate-on-Record of the Supreme Court of India.

With nearly two decades of experience, Sandeep’s practice encompasses complex commercial disputes, international arbitration, white-collar matters and investigations. He has extensive experience in investment and management-control disputes, shareholder conflicts, financial disputes and commercial crimes. He also advises on multi-jurisdictional investigations and regularly conducts internal investigations involving allegations of fraud, corruption and corporate misconduct.

Sandeep represents clients across sectors such as financial services, technology and e-commerce, intellectual property, pharmaceuticals and life-sciences, defence, mines and minerals, telecom, infrastructure, and education. His practice involves pre-dispute strategy, helping businesses, promoters and senior executives align legal remedies with their commercial objectives.

Sandeep has previously been recognised as a Notable Practitioner by IFLR1000, and as of one ALB India’s Top Disputes Lawyers.

Swati Narnaulia is Assistant General Counsel at InterGlobe Enterprises Private Limited, contributing to the legal function of the group, which spans aviation, hospitality, logistics and travel commerce. She brings over 15 years of experience in corporate and commercial law, having most recently served as Chief Corporate Counsel (General Counsel) at Mensa Brands, a digital-first brand aggregator, where she was recognised at the IBLJ In-House Counsel Awards 2023-24 for the Internet & E-commerce sector. Earlier in her career, she was Director, Legal at OYO LIFE in Japan, a Foreign Attorney at Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, and a Senior Associate at Trilegal. She is a Fellow of the University of Chicago Law School and Harris School of Public Policy, and has contributed to legal scholarship on the protection of celebrity and personality rights.

Vineet Vij is Global General Counsel & Chief Legal Officer of Tech Mahindra and its group companies, leading a team of over 100 lawyers across India, the US, Mexico, the UK, the Netherlands and Israel. He oversees legal and regulatory matters, multi-billion-dollar cross-border deals, M&A, disputes, global compliance, legal policy, IPR and strategic legal support, and heads legal teams across Comviva Technologies, Born Group, Target Group, Tech Mahindra Business Services, and LCC & Leadcom Integrated Solutions. He also sits on the boards of several Tech Mahindra subsidiaries in India and overseas.

With over 25 years' experience at Tata Consultancy Services, HCL Group and American Express, Vineet has worked across commercial law, litigation, M&A, regulatory compliance, IPR and data protection. A law graduate of Delhi University, he has received numerous accolades, including the ASSOCHAM Bharat GC Doyen 2024 and repeated recognition on the Forbes and Legal 500 GC Power Lists.

Yashasvi is the managing partner of the Bangalore office of Touchstone Partners. He previously had stints with Infosys Technologies in Bangalore and with White & Case in Singapore. He is a graduate of National Law School, Bangalore, and is also a qualified company secretary and has completed a PGP in Management from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.

With over 25 years of experience, Yashasvi represents leading multinational corporations and financial institutions on a variety of transactional and corporate matters. He is highly regarded for his public M&A expertise and has significant experience in handling corporate disputes.

Yashasvi has been consistently ranked a leading Corporate / M&A lawyer by Chambers & Partners for several years and was recognised as an In-House Community External Counsel of the Year in 2018.

Lara Hammoud is a globally sought-after arbitrator, recognised for her extensive expertise in international arbitration. She is a qualified French lawyer with over twenty years of experience in international arbitration. Prior to becoming a full-time arbitrator with Arbitra in July 2024, Lara spent a decade as in-house counsel, heading the Disputes Team at Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC). Prior to ADNOC, Lara started her career in Paris at the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) before moving to private practice with a Magic Circle law firm in Paris and Abu Dhabi.

Lara has acted as tribunal chair, sole and party-appointed arbitrator in both common and civil law jurisdictions under UNCITRAL, DIAC, DIFC-LCIA, SIAC, BCDR, ADCCAC, LCIA, ArbitrateAD and ICC arbitration rules seated in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

Lara co-founded the highly successful Civil Law Conference in Abu Dhabi. She is the writer and editor of numerous articles and books on international arbitration and regularly appears as a speaker at international conferences and arbitration workshops.

Lara is regularly recognised in the directories, including most recently as a Global Elite Thought Leader in the Lexology Arbitration Index 2026, and Chambers & Partners, Most In Demand Arbitrators, UAE 2025.

Lara speaks fluent Arabic, English and French and is proficient in Italian. She was an ICC Court member until June 2024 and is currently a member of the ArbitrateAD Court of Arbitration, the Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration Council as well as the Singapore International Arbitration Centre.

Heena Singh is the Head of Legal (General Counsel) for ArcelorMittal India, a role she took up in February 2025. She holds a B.B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) from the National Law University, Jodhpur (2002-2007), and brings over 17 years of experience specialising in mergers and acquisitions, private equity, venture capital, joint ventures and general corporate advisory. She spent 15 years at AZB & Partners, rising from Senior Associate to Partner over a six-year partnership tenure, before moving to Talwar Thakore & Associates (TT&A) as a Corporate Partner for nearly three years, during which she also completed a secondment with American Tower Corporation. Announcing her move to ArcelorMittal, she described it as the start of her in-house journey after 18 years in private practice.

Gaurav Pachnanda is a Senior Advocate (India), whose practice includes a wide range of commercial litigation, arbitration and advisory work; with a significant multijurisdictional component.

He also practices abroad as a Barrister at Fountain Court Chambers, London and Singapore.

Gaurav has extensive experience (both as counsel and as arbitrator) in ad hoc arbitration proceedings as well as those governed by major international arbitration rules, such as SIAC, ICC, LCIA and UNCITRAL.

He is an Honorary Adjunct Professor of Law and Distinguished Professor of Legal Practice at Jindal Global Law School of O.P. Jindal Global University, India, where he teaches Law and Practice of Commercial Litigation and Arbitration in India. He is also an Honorary Professor at National Law University, Delhi.

Dr. Harish B. Narasappa is a Senior Advocate, designated by the Karnataka High Court in 2022, based in Bengaluru. He co-founded the law firm Samvad Partners, where he was a partner until stepping down in 2022 upon his designation, after which he transitioned to acting solely as arguing counsel and arbitrator. He holds a PhD and a BA, LLB (Hons.) from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, a BCL from the University of Oxford, where he was a Radhakrishnan Scholar, and a BA in Philosophy from the University of London. His practice spans commercial litigation, arbitration and policy work, alongside extensive earlier experience in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity, venture capital, banking and corporate financing, having represented Fortune 500 companies, multinational conglomerates and the Competition Commission of India. He is a Co-Founder of Daksh, a civil society organisation working on judicial reform.

S.M. Algaus is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution practice at CMS IndusLaw, based in the firm's Mumbai office, which he joined in September 2025. He brings over 13 years of experience in commercial litigation, domestic and international arbitration, and related advisory work. He regularly advises and represents clients across complex civil and commercial disputes, arbitral proceedings, insolvency and restructuring matters, intellectual property enforcement, and regulatory proceedings.

He appears and has appeared before the Supreme Court of India, various High Courts, the National Company Law Tribunal, Debt Recovery Tribunals, City Civil and Sessions Courts, the Small Causes Court, Electricity Regulatory Commissions, and arbitral tribunals constituted under both institutional and ad hoc frameworks.

Mr. Algaus holds an LL.M. from Queen Mary University of London (2013), an institution internationally recognised as one of the foremost centres for arbitration and dispute resolution studies, and a BLS LL.B. from the University of Mumbai (2011). He has authored articles on legal and regulatory developments for Mondaq, Firstpost, Business Standard, The Hindu, The Leaflet, and The Law Anthology.

Rajit Bhattacharya is the Co-Founder & CEO of Data Sutram, an enterprise AI-trust platform building trust in the financial world. Featured in Forbes 30 Under 30, he started building data-driven solutions at 19 and now leads one of the fastest-growing companies in AI and external intelligence. Rajit has spoken at global fintech forums including the 30u30 Summit and Global Fintech Festival.

Sandeep Chowdhury is Group General Counsel at Suzlon Energy Limited and a legal professional with over 25 years of experience across corporate law, compliance, litigation, regulatory affairs, governance and strategic legal advisory. He leads Suzlon’s legal, compliance and governance functions and has held senior leadership positions with leading multinational and Indian organisations across renewable energy, infrastructure, manufacturing, FMCG, pharmaceuticals, technology and retail, including Walmart, The Coca-Cola Company, Baxter, UPL, Ola and Lafarge Cement.

Sandeep has extensive experience in complex commercial litigation, domestic and international arbitration, regulatory investigations, intellectual property matters and cross-border disputes. He has advised businesses across multiple jurisdictions on business-critical legal and regulatory matters and has played a key role in strengthening legal governance frameworks.

He has been recognised by the Legal 500 GC Powerlist India, Forbes India & BW Legal, Legal Era and Economic Times, among others

Shreya is a Partner in the Technology, Media and Communications Sector Group and Banking & Finance and Commercial Practice Areas at CMS INDUSLAW. She specialises in legal and regulatory matters across payments and financial technology, digital intermediaries, data protection, information technology, gaming, telecommunications, defence, aerospace and public procurement.

Shreya advises domestic and international clients on market entry and product structuring, regulatory compliance, data privacy and cybersecurity, platform governance, commercial contracting and consumer protection. She has extensive experience advising on India’s data protection regime, including the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, and on regulatory frameworks governing digital payments, lending, embedded finance, wealth and trading platforms, virtual assets and insurance products.

Her practice also includes telecommunications and technology, online gaming and e-sports, defence and aerospace projects, and public procurement. Shreya is recognised by Chambers & Partners Asia-Pacific 2025, Asialaw Rankings 2024–2025 and The Legal 500.

Mayank has over 22 years of experience as a litigator.

Mayank has acted for and advised various Indian and foreign businesses, investors, public sector enterprises and financial institutions in variety of disputes.

He has considerable experience in handling shareholders’ disputes, minority and protection actions, contract enforcement, insolvency and bankruptcy disputes, disputes arising out of wide variety of transactions including investment agreements, concession agreements, construction contracts and disputes relating to white collar crimes and investigations.

Mayank has extensive experience in commercial arbitrations (domestic and foreign) and construction and engineering arbitrations. He has also conducted international commercial arbitrations in Paris, London and Singapore.

Mayank has been recognised as a ‘Notable Practitioner’ by asialaw Leading Lawyers rankings for Dispute Resolution. Asian Legal Business also recognised Mayank amongst Asia's Top Litigators in 2023. He has been recognised as a ‘Litigation Star’ by Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific Guide for Commercial and Transactions. The Legal500 Asia-Pacific Guide also listed Mayank as a ‘Recommended Lawyer’ for Dispute resolution: Arbitration and Litigation.

Kushal Gandhi is a Partner in the Finance Disputes team at CMS London, specialising in high-value, complex, and cross-border finance disputes. With extensive experience in litigation and international arbitration, Kushal is known for his reliability, knowledge, and effectiveness in delivering results for his clients.

Kushal regularly assists clients with developing risk mitigation strategies and obtaining emergency relief from courts and tribunals.

Kushal’s practice includes contentious insolvency. Kushal also regularly works alongside deal teams and assists in navigating complex negotiations and developing risk mitigations in transaction structures and related documents.

Kushal has also spent time working in the in-house legal team at a major investment bank in London and being seconded to an asset manager and the LCIA.

Kushal's expertise and dedication make him a trusted advisor for clients facing complex finance disputes.

Steven is an arbitrator and barrister. He has over 100 appointments as presiding, sole, co-arbitrator and emergency arbitrator, seated in Singapore, England, USA, India, South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam. He is also instructed as lead counsel in arbitrations. He is a member of the English and Singapore bars.

He has extensive experience with SIAC, ICC, ICDR, SCMA, KCAB, UNCITRAL Rules, and ad hoc cases involving Indo-Pacific jurisdictions and farther afield, and is on the SIAC, HKIAC, ICDR, KCAB, JCAA, CIETAC and SHAC panels, amongst many others.

He has extensive experience with disputes and parties from across the world including Singapore, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Mongolia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, Indonesia, Philippines, Brunei, Australia, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, USA, Peru, UK, Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Hungary, Russia, BVI, Rwanda, and South Africa.

He has experience with a broad range of commercial disputes covering private equity investments, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, share options, agency, licensing, internet gaming, hotel management, coal, mineral, agricultural commodities and trading contracts, mining, oil and gas, energy, offshore engineering, ship and rig building, and construction projects.

Urvashi Saikumar Pathak is Senior Vice President & Head of Legal at Axis Max Life Insurance, steering the company’s legal & secretarial function. With extensive cross-sectoral experience, she has managed high-stake arbitrations and litigations across multiple jurisdictions, alongside steering complex global transactions and fundraises. A published author, she is the assisting co-author of Escaping the Minotaur’s Labyrinth: Principles of Taxation (Wolters Kluwer) and has written articles on legal and regulatory issues. Urvashi is an alumnus of the London School of Economics where she completed her masters in International Business Law. A committed champion of diversity, she mentors women leaders and serves on the General Body of Chennai's Vidya Sagar.

Ankit Goyal is a Partner in the Commercial Disputes team at RPC in Singapore and specialises in international arbitration, commercial litigation and cross-border commercial disputes. He has extensive experience acting for multinational corporations, financial institutions and sovereign entities in high-value disputes across sectors including energy, infrastructure, technology, financial services and telecommunications. His arbitration practice spans proceedings under leading institutional rules, including the ICC, LCIA, SIAC, HKIAC and UNCITRAL Rules, as well as arbitration-related court proceedings in the region. Prior to joining RPC, he was a Partner at Allen & Gledhill, where he advised on complex international commercial and investment treaty disputes. Recognised as a leading arbitration practitioner, he brings particular expertise in India-related cross-border disputes and regularly advises clients on matters involving Indian parties, assets and enforcement issues.

Meena Venugopal is a Partner at Kochhar & Co., where she heads the firm's litigation practice in its Bangalore office. She commenced her practice as a litigator in 1993, and has since expanded her work to include real estate and corporate commercial practice, with considerable experience on matters under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code since its introduction. Her litigation practice covers commercial and contractual disputes before civil courts and various High Courts, assisting banks and NBFCs in high-value debt recovery proceedings, SARFAESI Act matters, and proceedings before the NCLT and NCLAT. She has substantial experience in alternative dispute resolution, having mediated numerous disputes and represented clients in arbitration proceedings, applications and appeals. On the real estate side, she has handled large land acquisitions ranging from a few thousand square feet to around 400 acres. She holds a B.Com. and LL.B. from Bangalore University.

Pranay Lekhi is an Associate at A&O Shearman, dual-qualified as a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales and as an Advocate in India, practising public international law, international investment arbitration and international commercial arbitration. He has acted as counsel to the Republic of Djibouti and the Federal Republic of Somalia in advisory proceedings before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and the International Court of Justice respectively, and regularly acts for states and investors in investor-state arbitration under the ICSID and UNCITRAL Rules, as well as in commercial arbitrations under the LCIA and ICC Rules. He holds a B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) from the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata (2019, Gold Medallist), and an LL.M. from the University of Cambridge (2020), with the Senior Harris Scholarship from Downing College. He is a member of the International Institute of Space Law, Paris.

Sanjna Pramod is a dual-qualified lawyer admitted to practise in India and Australia. She is a Senior Associate at Clifford Chance in Singapore, specialising in commercial and investor-State arbitration, the enforcement of foreign awards and judgments, and regulatory investigations.

With 12 years’ experience practising in India, Hong Kong, Australia and Singapore, Sanjna has represented clients in disputes across the construction, energy and infrastructure, financial services, space, and telecommunications sectors.

Sanjna is a graduate of the MIDS in Geneva and National Law University Jodhpur. She is also a former member of the YMCIA Steering Committee, on which she served for four years.

Atul Sharma is the Executive Chairman of Dentons Link Legal, having founded Link Legal India Law Services in 1999 and led the firm through its 2023 combination with Dentons, the first global law firm to combine with an Indian law firm. He was admitted to the Bar in 1978 and brings over four decades of experience in project advisory, corporate litigation, mediation and arbitration, including international commercial arbitration, specialising in aviation and infrastructure. He regularly represents clients before courts, tribunals and arbitral tribunals, advising on aircraft acquisition, financing and leasing, airline operations, engineering and construction, and real estate and hospitality projects. He has served as Regional President of the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce and Head of its Infrastructure Committee, and was appointed Co-Chair of the Arbitration Bar of India's Task Force on Construction Arbitration Protocol in May 2025. He holds a Bachelor of Economics and an LL.B. from Delhi University.

Carsten van de Sande is a Partner in Hengeler Mueller's Dispute Resolution practice, having joined the firm's London office as Resident Partner on 1 May 2026 to further develop its international arbitration practice. He joined Hengeler Mueller in 2001 and became a partner in 2007, and is admitted to practice in both Germany and New York. He represents German and foreign companies in international and domestic arbitration, litigation and alternative dispute resolution proceedings, with particular experience in post-M&A disputes, complex commercial and technical contract disputes, technology-sector disputes, supply chain disputes in the automotive industry, and product liability claims. His arbitration experience spans proceedings under DIS, ICC and Swiss Chambers of Commerce rules, as well as ad hoc arbitrations, and he also regularly sits as arbitrator, including as tribunal chairman. He is a member of the firm's India Practice and sits on the Council of the Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration.

Animesh Bordoloi is a Senior International Case Counsel at the Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC), Kuala Lumpur. He holds an LL.M. in International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution from the National University of Singapore (2019-2020) and has taught as an Assistant Professor at O.P. Jindal Global University, focusing on international arbitration and sports law. He has held roles at the AIAC, Jindal Global Law School and King's Student Law Review, where he served as Senior Editor, and more recently as an Arbitration Consultant with the TrustBridge Rule of Law Foundation where he led a study on 'arbitrator appointment patterns in India'. At AIAC, he has been closely involved in the organisation's flagship programming, including Asia ADR Week, and writes on developments in international arbitration, including anti-arbitration injunctions and standard-essential patent disputes. He is also the Co-Chair for AIAC YPG (Young Practitioners Group).

Ratan K. Singh is a Senior Advocate and Arbitrator based in New Delhi, having joined the Indian Bar in 1996 and been designated Senior Advocate of the Delhi High Court in 2021. He is also an International Member of Keating Chambers, a leading construction and international arbitration set, joining with effect from January 2022. With nearly three decades of experience, his heavyweight practice spans construction, engineering, infrastructure, mining, power and general commercial disputes, both as counsel and as a leading arbitrator, with appointments under ICC, UNCITRAL, SIAC, JCAA, DIAC and ICADR rules across India, Japan, Singapore, France and England. A graduate in Geology (M.Sc.) and Law (LL.B., Campus Law Centre, University of Delhi), he is Founder and Chairman of the Society of Construction Law - India and Director of the India branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and holds five international fellowships.

Mr. Singh teaches Construction Law and Construction Arbitration and is Honorary professor with O. P. Jindal University, Manipal University and Dhirubhai Ambani University.

Mr. Singh is also empanelled as arbitrator with SIAC, AIAC, ICA, DIAC etc.

Robert Whitehead is a Partner and Head of the Dispute Resolution Department at Hamdan Al Shamsi Lawyers & Legal Consultants, based in Dubai, specialising in high-value commercial disputes through arbitration, litigation and alternative dispute resolution. His practice focuses on agreements arising out of property, infrastructure, finance, banking and shareholder disputes, as well as fraud. He previously practised at Clyde & Co LLP in England, handling large-loss claims before the Commercial Court and Chancery Division of the High Court and Court of Appeal for international blue-chip clients in complex, multi-party, cross-jurisdictional disputes. He regularly represents clients in arbitrations under DIAC, DIFC-LCIA and ICC rules, and has substantial experience before the Dubai International Financial Centre Courts. He holds an LLB (Hons) from Durham University, and is ranked as an 'Up and Coming' Dispute Resolution lawyer by Chambers Global.

Dr. Yuting Chen is Deputy Head of the School of Construction, Property and Surveying at London South Bank University (LSBU), and a FIDIC-Certified Trainer and Consultant in the UK. She holds a PhD in Construction Project Management, a CFA charter in Finance, and legal qualifications including a PGCert in International Business Law, and is currently pursuing a Diploma in Adjudication with RICS. As a practitioner, she offers consulting services in contract drafting, claim management and dispute resolution, and delivers FIDIC training, including leading LSBU's FIDIC Academy Summer School preparing participants for the FIDIC Certified Contract Manager examination. As an academic, she teaches construction planning, project management and production management at postgraduate and undergraduate level, and supervises six PhD candidates.

Edward Taylor is a Partner in the International Arbitration practice at A&O Shearman, based in Hong Kong. He represents and advises companies, states and state-owned entities in commercial and investment treaty disputes across Asia and internationally, with experience spanning energy, infrastructure, joint ventures, M&A, private equity, technology and digital assets. He regularly appears in HKIAC, SIAC, ICC and LCIA arbitrations, including emergency arbitrator proceedings, and also sits as arbitrator. Edward is a member of HKIAC's Proceedings Committee and a Fellow of both CIArb and HKIArb. He is recognised as a Leading Partner for International Arbitration by Legal 500 Asia Pacific and has been named an ALB Rising Star and 40 Under 40 honoree. He is dual-qualified in England & Wales (solicitor advocate) and Hong Kong (solicitor), holding an LLB (First Class) from King's College London.

Gaurav Juneja is a Partner with the Dispute Resolution Practice in the Delhi NCR office. Gaurav has over 20 years of experience of advising and representing Indian and multinational clients in various domestic and international commercial litigations and arbitrations, particularly in EPC disputes in energy, infrastructure and roadways sector. He has also represented clients in institutional arbitrations governed by LCIA, SIAC, ICC and other reputed institutions.

He has also advised and represented leading manufacturers of iron, steel, thermal power and cement before the Mines Tribunal, various High Courts of India and the Supreme Court of India

Mamta is the Chief Executive Officer of Daksh, India’s leading think-tank and research organization focused on law and justice system reforms and access to justice. Mamta is a lawyer with over two decades of experience in corporate law, compliance and business integrity. She was most recently Chief Business Integrity Officer and Global Counsel for Business Integrity & Commercial Operations at Diageo plc, London, where she advised the Board on compliance matters worldwide. She earlier served as General Counsel for Diageo India, advising the Board of United Spirits Limited on governance and related matters, and held senior legal roles at Diageo across London, Mumbai and Bangalore, as well as at British Telecom in Singapore. She has also served as a non-executive director on the boards of United Spirits Limited and Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited. She holds a BA LL.B (Hons.) from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore.

Amrita Sinha is Head, Corporate Legal, TSGCs at Tata Steel, with over 19 years of post-qualification experience. She has extensive experience advising on complex and strategic corporate and commercial matters, including mergers and acquisitions, group restructuring, strategic partnerships, technology and cross-border transactions, corporate governance, data protection, competition law, investigations, litigation, and disputes management. She also has significant experience in contracting, working closely with business and senior management teams. Her experience spans both transactional and contentious matters, giving her a broad perspective on managing legal risk while supporting business objectives. She brings to the panel a practical in-house counsel’s perspective, with a focus on navigating complex legal issues in a manner that is commercially pragmatic and aligned with strategic business objectives.

Amrita graduated from ILS Law College, Pune, where she was among the top of her class. She holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from Fergusson College, Pune, from where she graduated with distinction. Her academic grounding in economics, combined with her legal training, has shaped her ability to approach complex legal and commercial issues with both analytical rigour and a practical business perspective.

Prior to joining MCIA, Neeti has extensively worked in the field of International Commercial Arbitration, both as a private practitioner representing clients and as an administrator, facilitating the dispute resolution procedure. Neeti’s past professional experience includes working with some of the top Indian Law Firms like Trilegal and Economic Laws Practice. She has also worked at the International Arbitration Department of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Paris Office, besides being judicial clerk for Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Muralidhar of Delhi High Court.

Neeti has also worked with LCIA India as its First Deputy Registrar. She is also active in the academic circle and is an academic advisor at KIIT Law School, Orissa. Neeti is also a guest faculty at HNLU Raipur and at National Law University, New Delhi. Ms Sachdeva has obtained a Masters in International Commercial Arbitration from Stockholm University, and has also undertaken a course in Private International Law from the Hague Academy of International Law, The Hague. She is regularly invited as a speaker at various conferences and conducts workshops in the field of arbitration. She is an office bearer at the IBA Arbitration Committee and regularly sits as an Arbitrator too.

Priya Dhankhar is an Associate Partner at SKV Law Offices and a senior member of the Dispute Resolution and Regulatory Practice. She was elevated to Associate Partner in 2026, having joined SKV in January 2024 as a Senior Associate. She rapidly established herself as a key contributor across the firm’s most significant energy and infrastructure disputes. She brings over eight years of experience in contractual transactions, commercial arbitration and litigation, and regulatory proceedings. Ms. Dhankhar brings a structured and substantial background in energy regulatory litigation, having practised in the energy dispute space for over seven years before joining SKV. Her experience encompasses disputes arising from Power Purchase Agreements, Transmission Agreements, and Construction Agreements under PPP models, as well as regulatory proceedings before APTEL, state commissions, and courts. She has appeared before arbitral tribunals, SERCs, APTEL, High Courts, and the Supreme Court of India. Her combination of contentious arbitration experience with deep regulatory litigation expertise makes her particularly effective in complex energy matters that span both court and tribunal dimensions. Her elevation to Associate Partner within two years of joining reflects the speed and quality of her integration into the firm’s practice and her growing client-facing responsibility across concurrent mandates.

Mehak Oberoi is the Founder of ConstructHER Global Legal Network, a platform for women in construction and infrastructure law to exchange ideas, share opportunities and build professional visibility. She has over 19 years of experience and until recently served as Legal Head for GE Vernova's Hydro business in Asia-Pacific, working on complex renewable energy and infrastructure projects spanning high-value contracts, cross-border disputes and regulatory strategy. She founded ConstructHER in 2026, hosting its inaugural international webinar in March, which featured Justice Hima Kohli as keynote speaker, and later launched the ConstructHER E-Magazine. She writes the newsletter Constructive Counsel on Substack, and is a Board Member of the Society of Construction Law, India. She has been recognised with the BW Legal World '40 Under 40' Elite award, inducted into the General Counsel Hall of Fame, and named Highly Commended In-house Counsel by India Business Law Journal.