Ridhi is a senior associate in the London office. Her experience includes advising clients in investment treaty and commercial arbitrations relating to taxation, oil and gas, infrastructure, and joint venture disputes. She has acted in several arbitrations under the ICSID, ICC, LCIA and UNCITRAL Rules.
Ridhi is recognised as a recommended lawyer in The Legal 500 UK’s 2023 and 2024 guides for international arbitration and public international law.
Ridhi holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, and received her undergraduate degree in law from the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR), Hyderabad, India. Ridhi has previously taught law at the University of Bristol, and held visiting positions at King’s College London (2017) and the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law (2018).
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Languages
English
Hindi
Bengali
Acting for Eni in its ICSID investment treaty claim against Nigeria
Acting for an Asian NOC in an ICC arbitration arising from a force majeure declaration regarding a gas transportation agreement
Acting for Sacyr in its investment treaty claim against Panama
Acting for an international energy company in an ad hoc UNCITRAL arbitration relating to a power purchase agreement
Advising an international energy company on tax stabilisation matters
Acting for a real estate company in an ICC arbitration relating to a joint venture dispute
Acting for an Asian NOC in an LCIA arbitration relating to a gas pricing dispute
Advising the ICC as intervener before the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in the case of Halliburton Company v Chubb Bermuda Insurance Ltd
- PhD, University of Cambridge
- LLM, University of Cambridge
- BA LLB (Hons), National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR), Hyderabad, India