Abhijnan advises and represents multinational clients in domestic/cross-border disputes in various courts including the Supreme Court of India and in a variety of arbitral forums. He represented Amazon in the seminal Supreme Court judgment recognising emergency arbitration in India. Abhijnan holds an LLM in commercial laws from the University of Cambridge. He is also an Advocate-on-Record at the Supreme Court of India.

Dr. Akhil Prasad is a Board Member, Group General Counsel and Company Secretary at Boeing India, with over 30 years’ experience as an in-house counsel across diverse industries. He has diverse expertise in managing Board of Directors of very well known multinationals’ Indian subsidiaries, law, governance, risk & compliance corporate, litigation and regulatory laws. An LL.D., Ph.D., and dual LL.M. holder with legal qualifications in India, the UK, and the US; corporate secretary qualifications from India and UK; an alumnus of Wharton Business School, US, Northwestern University, US and IE Business School, Spain. Dr. Prasad is also a visiting faculty at premier Indian institutions and Maastricht University, and an active contributor to global legal forums including the International Bar Association and UN Global Compact. Dr Prasad is also a founder of General Counsels’ Association of India.

Ankit’s areas of practice cover international arbitration and cross-border dispute resolution in Asia with a focus on India related disputes. Ankit has acted as counsel on several cases under the rules of major arbitral institutions, including SIAC, ICC, HKIAC and the LCIA. He also has considerable experience coordinating and managing complex commercial litigations in Asia Pacific. Ankit is recognised as a Future Leader in Lexology Index: Arbitration, and is listed as a Litigation Star in Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific. He is also recommended for his specialisation in India-related legal matters by India Business Law Journal and The Legal 500 Asia Pacific.

Chahat’s areas of practice are international arbitration and cross-border dispute resolution. He regularly acts as counsel in international arbitrations administered by major institutions such as the SIAC, ICC, and HKIAC. Prior to joining the firm, Chahat was a counsel at SIAC where he administered over 100 international arbitrations across a range of sectors. Chahat is an Asia-Pacific (APAC) Member of the Young Singapore International Arbitration Centre (YSIAC) Council, formed under the auspices of the SIAC.

Lawrence Boo, Head of The Arbitration Chambers since 1996, is a leading figure in Asian arbitration, with over 30 years’ experience and more than 350 cases as arbitrator in commercial and investor-State disputes. Formerly SIAC’s first CEO, Registrar, and Deputy Chairman, he has served on panels of major institutions including ICSID, ICC, LCIA, HKIAC, and AIAC. Lawrence has also mediated over 100 disputes with a 75% settlement rate. He is Singapore’s nominee to ICSID’s Panel of Arbitrators and sits on panels of leading arbitration and mediation bodies worldwide.

Neeti is the Secretary General and Registrar of the MCIA. 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 and international law firms, besides being a judicial clerk. She is also active in academic circles, having done her Masters in International Commercial Arbitration from Stockholm University and regularly sits as an Arbitrator too. She is also a Board member of CIArb India

Vivek is Registrar of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre and heads its Secretariat. Vivek has over 18 years’ experience in international dispute resolution and arbitration. Prior to joining SIAC, he was a partner at a leading law firm in Singapore and regularly acted as counsel on international arbitrations conducted under various institutional rules. He has considerable experience acting on emergency arbitrator proceedings, expedited procedure arbitrations, and advising on arbitral award challenge and enforcement actions in Singapore. Vivek has also acted as an arbitrator and has been appointed as emergency arbitrator, and to three-member and sole arbitrator tribunals.