Mumbai edition of SIAC Annual Conference 2026 to be held on November 28

The Mumbai edition of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) Annual Conference 2026 will be held on November 28, bringing together judges, senior advocates, arbitrators, general counsel and legal practitioners to discuss effective dispute resolution and emerging challenges in international arbitration.

The conference, themed Charting the Path to Effective Dispute Resolution: Strategy, Process and Outcome, will be held at The St. Regis Mumbai, Lower Parel, from 2 PM to 7.15 PM.

Singapore's Senior Minister of State for Law and Transport Murali Pillai SC and Bombay High Court Justice Bharati Dangre will deliver special addresses at the conference.

SIAC Chief Executive Officer Gloria Lim will deliver the opening remarks, followed by a welcome address by Davinder Singh SC, Chairman of the SIAC Board of Directors.

The conference will examine how businesses and their legal teams approach commercial disputes, manage litigation risks and balance legal objectives with costs, reputation and commercial relationships.

The first panel discussion, titled A View from the Top: How Group GCs Manage Disputes, Risk and Reputation, will examine how senior in-house counsel approach significant disputes while balancing commercial priorities and legal risks.

Speakers include Sanjit Kaur Batra of Cummins India, Hemant Kumar of Larsen & Toubro, Naveen Raju of Mahindra & Mahindra, Tapan Pati of Godrej Enterprises Group and Rajagopal Venkatakrishnan of Jio Platforms.

The second panel is titled The Discipline of Less: Can Arbitration Become Simpler? The discussion will focus on improving efficiency in arbitration without compromising fairness and due process.

Another session, titled Inside SIAC: This Award Survives Scrutiny, will examine the enforceability of arbitral awards.

Other speakers include Cyril Shroff, Managing Partner of Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas; Vijayendra Pratap Singh of AZB & Partners; Nakul Dewan KC of Twenty Essex; and independent arbitrators Nicholas Peacock and Anne Secomb.

SIAC Registrar Vivekananda Neelakantan and other senior SIAC officials will also participate.

The conference will conclude with remarks by Sushmita Gandhi, APAC Lead of the YSIAC Council and Partner at Trilegal, followed by a networking session.

Click here to register for the conference.