Sushmita Gandhi

Practice Areas

Banking & Finance; Dispute Resolution; Insolvency & Restructuring; Civil Fraud and Asset Recovery

Career

Sushmita Gandhi is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution Practice of IndusLaw. Sushmita has extensive experience in advising clients on varied commercial disputes across sectors, including banking & finance, insolvency & restructuring, and arbitrations, particularly in the areas of construction, projects and infrastructure, and investments. She has advised lenders, borrowers, advisors, and other intermediaries in complex local and cross-border financing transactions across major debt financing disciplines. Sushmita has handled several domestic and international arbitrations, representing clients in institutional arbitrations in India and abroad and she has also advised on corporate and commercial disputes, appearing before a variety of forums, courts, and tribunals. She has acted both as, briefing counsel and lead advocate in several domestic arbitrations and arbitrations administered by SIAC, ICC, LCIA, DIAC with seats in India, Singapore, Dubai and London. In particular, she has a wealth of experience in handling proceedings against some of the biggest debt defaulters in India; in domestic and cross border insolvency litigation and advisory work relating to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code; and in international arbitrations. She has been involved in several high value and complex enforcement and asset recovery work and specializes in this field. Sushmita regularly authors articles and publications on the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, Arbitration and Conciliation Act, Banking laws and is a regular speaker on the subject at various events and summits across the globe. She is also empaneled as an arbitrator with several arbitral institutions including the Reserve Panel of SIAC, AIAC, THAC.

Sushmita’s clients spread across large conglomerates, banking and financial institutions, private equity funds, foreign investors, Indian and multinational corporations, and other clients on a wide variety of domestic and cross-border disputes.

Rankings & recognitions:

1. Ranked by Chambers & Partners Asia Pacific Guide & Global Guide 2023 & 2024 in the field of Dispute Resolution

2. Recognized as a Recommended Lawyer for Banking and Finance, Dispute Resolution, Insolvency and Restructuring and White-Collar Crimes by Legal500 Asia Pacific (2022 & 2023 edition)

3. Ranked by IBLJ as one of India's Future Legal Leaders for 2024.

4. Ranked as Leading Lawyer - Rising Star Partner for Restructuring and Insolvency by IFLR1000, 2022-23 and 2023-24

5. Winner in the category of Commercial Arbitration Lawyer of the Year by Women in Business Law Awards (2022-APAC)

6. Ranked as Rising Star for Dispute Resolution and Restructuring and Insolvency by Asia Law-APAC 2023 and 2024

7. Recognized as “Future Star” for Commercial and Transactions by Benchmark Litigation (Asia Pacific 2022 and 2023)

8. Recognized as one of the top individual lawyers in the field of Arbitration and Insolvency and Bankruptcy by Forbes-Legitquest Legal Powerlist 2020 & 2021

9. Noted as a “Recommended Lawyer” in the 2019 list by RSG

Professional Memberships

Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa

Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

Fellow of Prime Dispute

International Bar Association

Young Singapore International Arbitration Centre Council, APAC

INSOL India and INSOL International

International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation

Indian Women in International Arbitration (IWIA), Steering Committee Member