Council Member
Anish Wadia

Anish Wadia, FCIArb, FACICA, FMIArb, FHKIArb, FAArb, FCArb, FPIArb, FAMINZ (Arb), FPD is an independent arbitrator with full rights of audience as a lawyer before Courts in:

  • India as an Advocate
  • England & Wales (incl. the Supreme Court) as a Solicitor Advocate
  • Dubai viz. the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) as a Legal Practitioner
  • Singapore viz. the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC) as a Registered Foreign Lawyer

Current Positions:

  • Chambers of Anish Wadia: Independent arbitrator and arbitration practice
  • Council Member: Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators (MIArb)
  • Ambassador (India): Alliance for Equality in Dispute Resolution
  • Approved Faculty List (AFL) Tutor, Examiner and Moderator in International and Domestic Arbitration for the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), U.K.
  • One of five Members of the Investor Grievance Redressal Committee, Mumbai (IGRC), appointed as per directions of the Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI), for the Multi Commodity Exchange of India Limited (MCX) to adjudicate upon financial, investor and commodity disputes – as of August 2018, declared seven decisions before the MCX

Previous Positions:

  • Member (India): ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR, Paris
  • Member (ex officio): ICC India Executive Committee
  • Member: ICC India Arbitration Group
  • ICC-YAF Regional Representative for India
  • Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (formerly, Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co.)
  • DSK Legal
  • Yadunath M. Chaudhari & Associates
  • Special Legal Advisor to Milind Deora (former Member of India’s Parliament and former Union Minister for Communications, Information Technology and Shipping), and part of his core election campaign management team (2004 – 2014)

Admitted on the Panel of Arbitrators: MIARB, ACICA, AIAC, ICAC-EAC, AMINZ, CEAC, RAC-RIMA, SHIAC, IAI, VIAC, AARB, BANI, AFSA, PDRCI, THAC, PD, MINAC, PIAC, etc.

Admitted into the Database of Arbitrators (these institutes do not have a formal/published Panel but only an internal database): ICC, LCIA, MARC, FAI, CAM, ISTAC, CEPANI, MCIA, DELOS, DIA, DIS, AI-SCC, etc.

Admitted on the Panel of Tribunal Secretaries: HKIAC, ACICA and MARC.

Actively provides strategic legal advice to be adopted in litigation, ad hoc and institutional arbitrations (domestic & international) in relation to a broad range of corporate & commercial disputes viz. white-collar crimes, telecom, construction, solar power, EPC disputes, etc. In addition to India, advises entities in Iceland, Singapore, Malaysia, England, France and U.S.A, as well as actively travels to these jurisdictions in a professional capacity.

Areas of focus inter alia are: (a) Commodities, Corporate, Construction, Telecom & Commercial Disputes; (b) Energy / Oil & Gas / Mining / Power / Natural Resources; (c) Information Technology, Science & Technology; (d) Maritime & Transportation; (e) Investments; and (f) Aviation Law.

  • Co-authored "Third-Party Funding in Arbitration - India's Readiness in a Global Context" published by Transnational Dispute Management [(2018) 15(2) TDM]: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3014001
  • Member of the team of authors for the Indian Arbitration Forum (IAF) that prepared the "Best Practices Guidelines for Conduct of Arbitral Proceedings" (IAF Guidelines, April 2018)

Accepts (both in India & abroad) appointments as an Arbitrator, Counsel, Solicitor Advocate and Tribunal Secretary in a broad spectrum of disputes. Acted as an expert witness on Indian law for proceedings in England and regularly invited as a speaker on topics related to International Arbitration.