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Shreya Jain is a Partner in the Arbitration practice at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, Mumbai. Her practice focuses on commercial and investor-state arbitrations, litigations arising from arbitrations, and public international law matters. Shreya is qualified to practice in India and New York, and is an accredited mediator. Shreya’s experience includes complex arbitrations under the major international arbitration rules (ICSID, ICC, SIAC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, etc.) for a diverse range of clients in the energy, commodities, construction, oil & gas, public utilities, information technology, financial services and PE industries. She has worked on commercial and investor-state arbitrations seated in a variety of jurisdictions and governed by common law, civil law and Islamic law systems. In addition to arbitrations, Shreya represents clients in litigations arising from arbitrations as well as structuring investments under investment treaties. Shreya graduated from National Law School of India University, Bangalore, where she received a Gold Medal for the Best Student Advocate. She completed her LL.M. from Harvard Law School, where she was a J.N. Tata and Narottam Sekhsaria scholar and an editor of the Harvard International Law Journal. Before joining Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, she worked at Cooley LLP in New York and Amarchand Mangaldas in Mumbai. Shreya currently serves as the India Co-Chair of Young ITA, Asia Pacific Representative at YIAG (LCIA’s under-40 arm), Assistant Editor at the Kluwer Arbitration Blog, Steering Committee member in the ERA Pledge (India Chapter) and Secretary of the Harvard Club of Mumbai. She regularly speaks and writes on contemporary issues in the field and teaches as a guest lecturer in various Indian law schools.