Biography
Amit is a Senior Advocate and Associate Member at Three Verulam Buildings Barristers (3VB), London, appearing regularly at the Supreme Court of India, the Delhi High Court and various other High Courts and Tribunals across India. He is ranked as a leading practitioner for dispute resolution by Chambers & Partners Asia-Pacific Guide. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1997 and practised as a transactional lawyer in banking, insolvency and capital markets for six years at the New York and Hong Kong offices of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, one of the world’s largest international law firms. Amit was admitted to the Indian Bar in 2002 and was designated a Senior Advocate in 2014.
Amit has a substantial practice in commercial and corporate disputes and international commercial arbitration. He also acts in domestic arbitration and court proceedings arising out of arbitration. He accepts engagements as counsel and arbitrator and is frequently engaged as an expert witness in international commercial arbitrations. Amit is regularly invited to speak at conferences in India and abroad and serves as the Head of Publications on the AAA-ICDR India Committee.
After graduating with a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford and a BA in law at Trinity College, Cambridge, Amit completed an LL.M. at Harvard Law School.