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Nehali Shah KC

Nehali Shah KC

UK Bar 2026

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Ranked in 5 practice areas

About

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Practice Areas

Nehali is a leading commercial silk, with extensive experience of complex and high-value commercial litigation and international arbitration. She has appeared at all levels in the English Court (including the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal), and in a variety of other Tribunals, both arbitral (e.g. LCIA, ICC, UNCITRAL, SIAC, KLRCA, and LMAA) and regulatory (e.g. RDC) and in expert determination. Nehali practises in all aspects of commercial law, including general commercial, banking, financial services and restructuring, energy, civil fraud, professional negligence, arbitration and jurisdiction. She has previously won Banking Junior of the Year and International Arbitration Junior of the Year, and been nominated for Commercial Dispute Resolution Junior of the Year and Energy Junior of the Year.

Career

Called 2008, Middle Temple.

Professional Memberships

COMBAR; ChBA; LCLCBA.

Personal

Education: St Paul’s Girls’ School; Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge (BA Hons Law Double First); Harvard Law School (LLM); Inns of Court School of Law (BVC).

Chambers Review

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Energy & Natural Resources - London (Bar)

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Individual Editorial

Nehali Shah is a highly regarded barrister with a strong practice advising clients on all aspects of upstream and downstream oil and gas disputes. She regularly appears in commercial litigation and arbitrations, both domestically and internationally, and a number of her cases focus on the financing aspects of projects.

Banking & Finance - London (Bar)

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Nehali Shah is a standout barrister who has forged a fantastic reputation across a number of related fields for being a highly intelligent and hard-working practitioner. She has particularly pronounced experience with regard to noteholder, private equity and restructuring cases, and regularly handles matters relating to sale disputes, LIBOR manipulation and derivatives. As a consequence of her popularity, her enviable client list includes leading international investment banks, hedge funds and private equity firms.

Fraud: Civil - London (Bar)

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Nehali Shah receives praise for her busy commercial practice, in which she is frequently instructed by major clients in sophisticated civil fraud claims, that are often international and multi-jurisdictional. She also has experience appearing before domestic courts, at all levels.

International Arbitration: General Commercial & Insurance - London (Bar)

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Nehali Shah assists in high-stakes international arbitrations under the rules of institutions such as the LCIA, the ICC, the LMAA and UNCITRAL, as well as enforcement proceedings ancillary to such arbitrations. Her cases concern a myriad of matters including energy, finance and insurance disputes.

Strengths

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  • Nehali is very bright and an excellent advocate.

    Energy & Natural ResourcesUK Bar
  • Nehali has excellent drafting, understands the client's case and crafts strategically creative arguments.

    Energy & Natural ResourcesUK Bar
  • Nehali is intelligent, ferociously hard-working and a star in the making.

    Energy & Natural ResourcesUK Bar
  • Nehali is an excellent advocate and barrister who gives thorough and commercial advice in a helpful and user-friendly way.

    Banking & FinanceUK Bar
  • Nehali is unfailingly excellent. She is meticulous, personable and very quick to grasp highly complex issues.

    Banking & FinanceUK Bar
  • She is an absolute superstar and someone who really understands reality and turnaround times.

    Banking & FinanceUK Bar

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