Bengaluru ADR Week: November 21-23, 2025

Bengaluru ADR Week Trust in collaboration with the Arbitration & Conciliation Centre, Bengaluru, the Karnataka Judicial Academy and the Advocates' Association is organising the three days event, promising an engaging and intensive programme featuring leading voices from the judiciary, legal practice, academia, and the corporate sector.

From 21st to 23rd November 2025, Bengaluru will once again take center stage in the global conversation on alternative dispute resolution as it hosts the second annual Bengaluru ADR Week at Karnataka Judicial Academy.

By emphasising the development of the arbitration ecosystem, the 2025 edition builds on the success of the previous year. In order to address significant advancements and new trends in the field, the program includes interactive sessions, engaging panel discussions, and practical workshops.

They aim to build on the strong foundation of the inaugural 2024 edition where participants engaged in substantive dialogue covering institutional frameworks for arbitration and mediation, technological innovation in dispute resolution mechanisms, resolution of shareholder and commercial disputes, and India's strategic positioning in the international ADR ecosystem, which set a solid precedent by bringing together prominent thought leaders across multiple sectors.

Themes and topics include:

• Navigating Arbitration in Real Estate: Pitfalls, Innovations and Future Trends

• Accountability of Arbitrators in increasing confidence of participants

• Bulletproofing Arbitral Awards: Limiting the Scope for Challenge

• Decoding Gayatri Balasamy and Cox & Kings

• Strengthening Pre-institution mediation - Existing structure, problem areas and strengthening of the system

• Arbitration In Technology And Investment Disputes: Expert Evidence, Damage Valuation And Asset Tracing

• Government Withdrawal from Arbitration: Implications for Dispute Resolution and Policy

Special Guests and Speakers:

• Justice Vibhu Bakhru, The Chief Justice, High Court of Karnataka

• Justice K.S.Mudagal, Judge, High Court of Karnataka and President

  Karnataka Judicial Academy, Bengaluru

• Justice D.K.Singh, Judge, High Court of Karnataka and President Arbitration & Conciliation Centre, Bengaluru

• Justice R. V. Raveendran, Former Judge, Supreme Court of India

• Justice V. Ramasubramanian, Former Judge, Supreme Court of India

• Justice A.V. Chandrashekar, Former Judge, High Court of Karnataka

• Justice K.S. Mudagal, Judge, High Court of Karnataka and President, Karnataka Judicial Academy

• K.G. Raghavan, Senior Advocate

• K. Shashi Kiran Shetty, Advocate General for the State of Karnataka

• Arvind Kamath, Additional Solicitor General of India, High Court of Karnataka

• Vivek Subba Reddy, President Adocates Association, Bengaluru

Event Chairs:

• Justice Suraj Govindaraj, Judge, High Court of Karnataka

• Justice A. S. Bopanna, Former Judge, Supreme Court of India

• Justice Sachin S. Magadum, Judge, High Court of Karnataka

• Justice Vineet Kothari, Former Acting Chief Justice, Gujarat High Court

• Justice B.M. Shyam Prasad, Judge, High Court of Karnataka

• Justice Jayant Banerji, Judge, High Court of Karnataka

• Justice S Sunil Dutt Yadav, Judge, High Court of Karnataka

• Justice S.R. Krishna Kumar, Judge, High Court of Karnataka

Event Speakers:

• Ratan Singh, Senior Advocate

• Srinivasa Raghavan, Senior Advocate

• Amba Prasad G., Vice President & Legal Head, L&T Constructions

• Sanjana Rao, Partner, R&A Partners

• Udaya Holla, Senior Advocate

• Pinaz Mehta, Partner, Wadia Ghandy

• Narendra Dev, Partner, Allied Law Partners

• Manu Kulkarni, Partner, Poovayya& Co.

• N. V. Bhavani, Prl. Secretary to Government, Department of Law, Justice and Human Rights

• Prasanth V.G., Partner, JSA

• Mohammed Shameer, Partner, Trilegal

• Gaurav Pachnanda, Senior Advocate

• Dhyan Chinnappa, Senior Advocate

• Lomesh Kiran Nidumuri, Partner, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas

• Anupama Hebbar, Partner, Keystone Partners

• Arun Kumar, Senior Advocate

• Lakshmy Iyengar, Senior Advocate

• Aniruddha A.S., Associate Partner, Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan

• Lakshmi Menon, Advocate

• Promod Nair, Senior Advocate

• Montek Mayal, Partner, Osborne Partners

• Nandini Khaitan, Partner, Khaitan & Co

• P. Chinnappa, Partner, CMS-IndusLaw

• Arvind Kamath, Senior Advocate, ASG, Karnataka

• Poornima Hatti, Partner, Samvad Partners

• Kiran Ron, AAG, Government of Karnataka

• Anind Thomas, Partner, AZB & Partners

Registration Details:

• Fees:

  Registration will be free, on a first come first serve basis, and subject to confirmation by the Organising Committee.

For registration form and any further updates, visit the organiser's website.