Sherina Petit
UK Guide 2025
Band 4 : International Arbitration
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About
Provided by Sherina Petit
Practice Areas
Sherina specialises in international commercial arbitration, investor-state arbitration, litigation and alternative dispute resolutions (ADR). In addition to acting as counsel in arbitrations, she also sits as an arbitrator. Sherina is ranked in the Legal Business Arbitration Power List and as a Global Leader in the Who’s Who Legal.
Career
Sherina trained at Linklaters in London before spending six years at Shearman & Sterling. She was most recently Head of the India practice at Norton Rose Fulbright before joining Stewarts in November 2023.
Professional Memberships
Sherina is on the board of the LCIA and the European Federation of Investment Law and Arbitration (EFILA).
She is also a member of:
Advisory Council of the School of International Arbitration of the Queen Mary University of London
City of London Law Society Arbitration Committee
ICC Indian Arbitration Group
SIAC Users Counsel
Chamber of Arbitration of the Indian International Arbitration Centre
Steering Committee of the Pledge for Equal Representation for Women and the Chair of the India Pledge Committee.
Task Force of the IBA Arbitration Guidelines and Rules Subcommittee for the revision of the 2014 IBA Guidelines on Conflicts of Interest.
Sherina is also part of a number of mentorship programmes for law students, including for the School of International Arbitration of the Queen Mary University of London and the Institute of Transnational Arbitration (ITA) at the Centre for American and International Law.
Publications
Sherina is a published writer and speaker on international arbitration. She has co-authored chapters of numerous books, including:
“Arbitration in England” edited by Julian Lew QC
“The Guide to Challenging and Enforcing Arbitration Awards” (two editions) edited by J Willian Rowley QC, Emmanuel Gaillard and Gordon E Kaiser
“Commercial Arbitration, International Trends and Practices” edited by Chirag Balyan and Yahraj Samant
“Enforcing Arbitral Awards in India” edited by Nakul Dewan
“Arbitration in India” edited by Fali Nariman, Martin Hunter, Dushyant Dave and Marike Paulsson.
She is currently editing a book on third party funding.
Personal
Sherina is passionate about family, friends, food, animals and adventure. If she weren’t a lawyer, Sherina would likely be a travel and food writer.