Mrs. Pallavi Shroff

Mrs. Pallavi Shroff, aged 53 years, is the lead litigation partner at Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co., Advocates & Solicitors, New Delhi. She manages corporate commercial litigation as well as arbitration.

In twenty-six years as a leading litigation practitioner, Mrs. Shroff has been recognized by international publications for her ‘leading practice in dispute resolution and litigation’ (Asia Legal 500) and is also rated as one of three leading practitioners involved with arbitration (Who’s Who of Commercial Arbitrators, 2004).

She has been closely involved with some of the largest and most challenging corporate, commercial & infrastructure litigation and arbitration in India and has played a pivotal role in telecom, energy, natural resources and transportation related dispute resolution.

Her experience includes ad-hoc arbitrations and institutional arbitrations under ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL etc. She has experience in arbitrations arising from shareholders’ disputes, construction disputes, and investment related and international arbitrations in the energy sector.

She has successfully represented International giants like GE, Coca-Cola, Nestle, Indian Oil Corporation, Videocon, ICICI Bank, Tatas, Apollo Tyres etc. and in various domestic disputes and domestic international arbitrations.

Her deep involvement with commercial litigation and arbitration goes beyond courts and tribunals and extends to formulating valued litigation strategy. Mrs. Shroff was the ‘Knowledge Partner’ for CII’s ‘CEO’s Strategy Session on Arbitration and Dispute Resolution’ featuring Arthur Marriott, QC. She also conceptualized and authored a background document on ‘Planning Arbitration’.

As a member of several high-powered committees appointed by the Government of India, she has been associated closely with several important commercial statutes. She was a member of the SVS Raghavan Committee constituted in May 2000 and tasked with generating a report on competition policy and formulating a new competition law for India. The committee submitted its report in August 2000 and advocated far reaching changes to the competition regime in India. She was also closely involved with the actual drafting of the Competition policy and Competition Act for the Government.

She is regularly called upon to advise Government departments and ministries on varied issues, including, most recently, in respect of multilateral competition policy, WTO related strategy, the formulation and drafting of policy documents necessary for the continuing efforts to establish India’s first ‘Zero Piracy Zone’ for the state of Karnataka and for developing an anti piracy advocacy program for the judiciary.

Her areas of expertise include Corporate and commercial litigation, power and telecom litigation, anti-dumping, international and domestic arbitration, competition and anti trust, Company and commercial law, intellectual property.

She is a director on the Boards of Abhishek Industries Limited, Juniper Hotels Pvt. Ltd., Kotak Mahindra Old Mutual Life Insurance Limited, IndusInd Bank Limited and PTL Enterprises Ltd. She is also member, Audit Committee of Juniper Hotels Pvt. Ltd. and Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL).

She has been awarded by FLO, the Women Wing of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry for “EXCELLENCE IN LAW”. FLO promotes the achievements of women in India under various categories. She has been short-listed as one of the 10 Rising Stars as the most powerful women in Indian Business by BUSINESS TODAY. She has also been short-listed as one of the 25 Superwomen by INDIA TODAY. She is a director on the board of Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC).