Former CAM Disputes Partner Shaneen Parikh joins Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas as a Partner

Former Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Head of International Arbitration Shaneen Parikh has joined Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co as a Partner in its Dispute Resolution practice, specialising in International Arbitration.

She will be based in Mumbai and takes up her role on August 17, 2026. 

Bar and Bench had covered Parikh's exit from CAM earlier this year.

With over three decades of experience, Parikh is a dual-qualified solicitor in India and in England & Wales. She is an Advocate-on-Record at the Supreme Court of India and a registered foreign lawyer of the Singapore International Commercial Court.

Parikh has acted in arbitrations seated in Singapore, London, New York, Geneva, Zurich, Dubai and across India, administered under the SIAC, ICC, LCIA, MCIA, DIAC and ICA Rules, as well as in ad hoc proceedings. Her work covers both commercial and investor-state disputes, and spans shareholder and post M&A disputes, private equity exits, put options and valuations, ISDA and structured financial products, infrastructure and construction, and media and intellectual property.

Parikh serves on the Governing Board of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) and as Vice Chair of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR. She sits on the Council of the Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration and is an Ambassador of the Asia Pacific Arbitration Group of the International Bar Association. She was a member of the Court of Arbitration of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre from 2018 to 2022, and of the Expert Committee that drafted the institutional arbitration rules for the proposed International Arbitration Centre at GIFT City, Gujarat.

Parikh was a Partner with the erstwhile Amarchand Mangaldas for two decades, before spending another decade at CAM as Partner and Head of International Arbitration.

In a joint statement on her appointment, Managing Partners, Pallavi Shroff and Akshay Chudasama said, 

“We are delighted to welcome Shaneen to Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co. Our International Arbitration team is already a successful one, and Shaneen’s arrival adds real weight and global reach to it. Her standing with the leading arbitral institutions, combined with three decades of experience across the most demanding cross-border mandates, will be instrumental in driving the practice into its next phase of growth. As Indian businesses expand internationally and global capital continues to flow into India, our clients need counsel who can run the most complex disputes across jurisdictions, and Shaneen is exactly that.”

Commenting on her new role, Parikh shared, 

“Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co has built a Dispute Resolution practice with genuine ambition in the international space, and I am delighted to be joining it. Indian parties and international clients investing in India are bringing more sophisticated and higher value disputes to arbitration than ever before, and I look forward to working with an outstanding team to meet that demand.”

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