Archit Dhir
Senior Associate London
Archit is a Senior Associate in the Maritime Disputes’ Team.
Archit has over 10 years’ experience as a disputes lawyer in the marine and international trade sectors. He is dual qualified in India and England & Wales and has previously worked at a leading law firm in Singapore and litigated in India. He has specialised knowledge of the commercial aspects of shipping, having pursued a MSc degree in Maritime Economics and Logistics.
Archit’s experience covers the whole spectrum of shipping work including charterparty, bills of lading, bunkers, ship sale, ship repairs, trade finance, maritime insolvency, sanctions, collisions, and commodities disputes. He has acted for a wide range of clients including owners, charterers, P&I Clubs, insurers, traders, cargo interests and maritime investment companies. He has substantial experience in arbitration (SIAC, SCMA, LCIA, LMAA and ICC). He has also advised clients on non-contentious matters in drafting and negotiation of shipping contracts, and more recently in the sphere of trade digitalisation.
His practice often has a cross-border dimension, leveraging on his education, work experience as well as the Firm’s footprint across multiple jurisdictions. He has regular involvement – for shipowners and cargo interests alike – in arrest and other security-taking measures across jurisdictions.
- 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
- ArticleNo Cuckoo in the Hague Rules’ Nest
- ArticleEnforcement of Exclusive Jurisdiction Clauses and Anti-Suit Injunctions
- ArticleUndisclosed principals and liability under letters of indemnity
- ArticleCompensation, Mitigation and the GAFTA Default Clause
- ArticleSupreme Court guidance on war risk provisions in charterparties