Surbhi is an India-qualified lawyer with over five years of work experience, most recently in the dispute resolution practice at Trilegal, a leading law firm in Mumbai. She has substantial experience in commercial arbitration, arbitration-related litigation, and insolvency matters, and has appeared before the High Courts of Delhi and Mumbai, various National Company Law Tribunals as well as the Supreme Court of India. Surbhi began her career as a banking and finance lawyer at a prominent national bank in India with a keen interest in insolvency litigation and related advisory work. In her subsequent roles at leading law firms such as Trilegal, she had the opportunity to work on both ad hoc and institutional arbitrations governed by the SIAC and LCIA Rules across sectors such as construction, shipping, finance and real-estate. Surbhi has also regularly advised clients on annulment, challenge and enforcement proceedings for domestic as well as foreign-seated awards. Having graduated from the National Law School of India University in 2019, Surbhi has a long-standing interest in alternative dispute resolution and represented her university at the Willem C. Vis East International Mediation Competition in Hong Kong, where her team reached the semi-finals. Surbhi also enjoys actively contributing to the developing jurisprudence on arbitration in India and has co-authored the India chapter for DELOS for the years 2023 and 2024. She has also written several articles addressing contemporary issues in arbitration during the course of her practice. Beyond legal practice, Surbhi is a passionate film enthusiast and an aspiring film critic drawn to interpreting and writing about award-winning cinema in English and Hindi. She is also a trained classical dancer and an enthusiastic patron of Mumbai's theatre and stand-up comedy scene.
Nationality
India
Working Languages
English
Hindi
Gujarati
Marathi
Areas of Expertise
Commercial arbitration
Commercial litigation
Insolvency & Bankruptcy Law
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Mumbai, India, 2021
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