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, Sherina also sits as an arbitrator.

Sherina has achieved a number of successes for her clients in both commercial and investment arbitration proceedings in terms of settlement and arbitration awards. She has also had numerous successes in high-value litigations before the English High Court.

Career

Sherina trained at Linklaters in London before spending six years at Shearman & Sterling. She was most recently Head of India and International Arbitration EMEA 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 holds many more memberships which can be viewed on her website profile.

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.

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.