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Biography

I am the founder of JUSCONTRACTUS, India’s first all-women’s law-firm, which has been recognized for its efforts since its inception in 2013, winning several awards including the Arbitration Law Firm of the Year India - 2018 by Corporate Live Wire Legal Awards. I was privileged to be named as the thinkers to watch out for, in 2015, by Forbes India. Recently my life and work were captured in the form of a short biopic.   I am a Rotary Scholar, a Russel Baker Fellow and an alumnus of University of Chicago. I was privileged to be part of the Justice Usha Mehra Judicial Commission on the Nirbhaya rape tragedy. In addition to legal practice, I have a deep academic interest in arbitration & write regularly for reputed publications. I serve as director on the Nani Palkhivala Arbitration Centre (“NPAC”), a not-for-profit Indian institutional arbitration body & the only one with two centres in the country (Delhi and Chennai). I am also a Trustee of the Indian Commercial and Arbitration Bar Association (“ICABA”).