Mr Ganesh Chandru Partner, Dua Associates, India
Ganesh Chandru specialises in International and Domestic Arbitration as well as Commercial Litigation. He is admitted to practice in India, England & Wales and Singapore, and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, UK and the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators. He has been appointed by the Government of India as a part-time Member of the ‘India International Arbitration Centre’ New Delhi, which has been declared by statute as an institution of national importance
Ganesh’s practice encompasses advising and representing parties in international arbitration matters (under Rules of SIAC, ICC, LCIA, SCMA, UNCITRAL as well as ad hoc) and arbitration matters seated in India that are conducted pursuant to the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996. He also advises and represents parties in litigation matters before the courts in India He has handled cases arising from transactions relating to Oil & Gas; Infrastructure; Projects & Construction; Power / Energy; Telecom & IT; Banking & Finance; Joint Ventures; Shareholder Agreements; General Corporate and Commercial matters
Prior to relocating to India in 2015, Ganesh spent more than 16 years in Singapore during which time he worked with some of the top international law firms and Singapore law firms. Between 2002 and 2007, Ganesh was the Counsel & Assistant Registrar of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC). He supervised the administration of about 500 arbitrations during his 5-year stint at SIAC and pioneered SIAC’s initiatives in India.
Ganesh is a member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the SIAC, the AIAC (formerly KLRCA), the Indian Council of Arbitration, the Nani Palkhivala Arbitration Centre, Madras Chamber of Commerce’s Arbitration & Mediation Centre and is on the list of arbitrators of the Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration. He was an elected member of the Council of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators from 2010 to 2014 and chaired some of its key committees
He has been recognised in the Who’s Who Legal Arbitration 2024 as one of the world’s leading commercial arbitration practitioners Ganesh is on the Forbes Legal Power List 2021 as a “Top Individual Lawyer for ‘Alternate Dispute ResolutionArbitration & Mediation’”. In recognition of his contribution to Arbitration and ADR he was conferred the ‘Capital Foundation National Award 2020’ He has been recognised in the Asian Legal Business (ALB) “India Super 50 Lawyers 2021” based on client feedback and market survey. He has been ranked by Legal Era as a “Leading Lawyer for ‘Dispute Resolution - Arbitration & Litigation” in its first edition of Legal Era Leading Lawyers Rankings 2022. He had been recognised in the Global Arbitration Review 100 (2009) as a “Significant”name” and listed as one of the “Future Leaders” by Who’s Who Legal and the Global Arbitration Review (GAR), London in the 2017 and 2018 editions of ‘Arbitration: Future Leaders’.
During his law school days, Ganesh was an avid participant in moot court competitions, and he represented India at the ‘Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition’ in Washington DC, USA. He was awarded the NUS Research Scholarship and was conferred a Master of Laws degree by the National University of Singapore for his thesis on ‘International Commercial Arbitration and Information Technology’.