Archit is counsel in the Dispute Resolution Team.
Archit is a dispute resolution lawyer in the maritime and international trade sectors.
His expertise spans the full spectrum of shipping work including charterparty, bills of lading, bunkers, ship sales and repairs, trade finance, sanctions, collisions and commodities disputes, and more recently trade digitalisation.
He acts for a range of clients including owners, charterers, P&I Clubs, insurers, traders, cargo interests and maritime investment companies.
- Acted for a major ship-owner in a trade finance dispute under a sale-lease back arrangement.
- Acted for two trade finance banks in cross-jurisdictional pursuit of multi-million-dollar mis-delivery related claims, in wake of the collapse of a substantive commodities player.
- Acted for a fund to enforce a multi-million-dollar mortgage across multiple jurisdictions.
- Advised a Dubai based commodities trader on their standard form sales contracts.
- Advised a global consortium on implementing electronic trade documents.
Education
2019 – 2020 · MSc (Distinction), Maritime Economics and Logistics, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2007 – 2012 · B.A. LLB. (Hons), National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India
2011 · Singapore Management University, Singapore (Exchange Student)
Memberships and Associations
- Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa
- Law Society of England & Wales
