Shaneen Parikh

Practice Areas

Shaneen Parikh

Partner (Head-International Arbitration)

Dispute Resolution

Shaneen is a dual qualified solicitor, with over three decades of experience in in complex disputes, often with cross-border issues involved.

She focuses on arbitration and has represented clients in domestic, international, and foreign-seated arbitrations under the rules of various international arbitral institutions as well as in ad hoc proceedings. Shaneen has also advised on investor-state disputes.

Shaneen represented the successful party in a foreign arbitration and the enforcement of a foreign award, which resulted in a landmark Supreme Court decision that ruled two Indian parties could choose a foreign seat of arbitration, thus upholding the fundamental principle of party autonomy. She has also advised both funders and clients on litigation financing in the Indian context.

Shaneen is appointed as Vice Chair to the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR for a three-year term, until June 2027. She is also appointed to the Council of the Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration (MCIA) and is an ambassador of the Asia Pacific Arbitration Group of the International Bar Association (IBA). She was a Member of the Court of Arbitration of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) from 2018-2022. Shaneen was a Member of the Expert Committee for drafting the institutional arbitration rules for the proposed International Arbitration Centre for the GIFT International Financial Services Centre, Gujarat, India, which issued its Expert Report in July 2024.

Relevant Experience (illustrative):

• Representing clients in domestic, international, and foreign-seated arbitrations under various international arbitral institutions and ad hoc proceedings.

• Advising on investor-state disputes.

• Representing parties in commercial litigation across various courts and tribunals in India, including High Courts, the Supreme Court, and the NCLT.

• Handling disputes arising out of commercial contracts, post-M&A disputes, financial and structured products, infrastructure, construction and real estate projects, and media/intellectual property disputes.

• Advising on dispute resolution strategy and representation in multi-forum and multi-jurisdictional disputes.

• Acting in complex post-M&A, private equity, and shareholder disputes, including those related to exit rights, valuations, corporate governance, fraud, and oppression/mismanagement.

• Representing clients in precedent-setting litigations in India, relating to securities fraud, commodities trading, and financial products transactions.

• Acting for Indian and foreign banks in disputes arising out of foreign exchange derivative transactions and structured financial products under ISDA Master Agreements.

• Representing foreign banks in proceedings arising out of the 1992 securities scam.

• Defending the parent of a private commodity exchange in proceedings across various courts and tribunals in India against alleged fraud and fund mismanagement.

• Representing the successful party in a foreign arbitration and the enforcement of a foreign award, resulting in a landmark Supreme Court decision on party autonomy.

• Advising on litigation financing in the Indian context.

Professional Memberships

Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa

Member of the Court of Arbitration of the

Singapore International

Council of the Mumbai Centre for

International Arbitration (MCIA)

Ambassador of Asia Pacific Arbitration

Group of the International Bar Association

(IBA)

Education

Awards