Rishab is a triple-qualified English barrister, India advocate, and New York lawyer with over 15 years’ experience in all forms of international disputes. He is considered as one of the leading arbitration lawyers in the world and is regularly ranked as a ‘global leader’ in the field of international arbitration. He was named in the 2023 edition of the Global Arbitration Review‘s (GAR) 45 under 45 global list of world’s leading international arbitration practitioners below 45 years of age. He is also ranked by Chambers and Partners in ‘Band 1’ (highest band) of English barristers in Singapore.

Prior to joining Twenty Essex, Rishab worked at major international law firms: Allen & Overy in London, Debevoise & Plimpton in New York, and Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co. in India (where he led the firm’s arbitration practice in Mumbai).

Rishab regularly represents clients in commercial arbitrations brought under the auspices of a variety of institutional rules. His experience includes arbitrations seated in London, Singapore, Hong Kong, New York, Washington D.C, Singapore, the Hague, Stockholm, Delhi, Mumbai, Sudan and Rwanda, conducted under the LCIA, ICC, SIAC, HKIAC, ICDR, SCC and UNCITRAL. The subject matter of these arbitrations have included long-term energy concessions, joint venture agreements, construction contracts, and intellectual property, among others and they have involved common law, civil law and Islamic law systems.

Rishab is also vastly experienced in investment arbitration. He has acted in over a dozen investment arbitrations under most rules, including particularly ICSID and UNCITRAL. He is instructed from a wide range of regions, having acted for claimants and respondents in claims arising in Europe, Africa and Asia.

Related to his experience in international arbitration, an important part of Rishab’s commercial litigation experience is arbitration-related court proceedings, particularly before Indian courts. Rishab has been involved in some of the largest set aside and enforcement proceedings in India.

Rishab’s practice also entails significant work and expertise in public international law. This draws on Rishab’s significant academic experience in public international law, including a DPhil (PhD) on international investment law from Balliol College, Oxford University (where he was a Rhodes Scholar) and various teaching assignments in universities across the world, including in the UK, Japan and India.  He also regularly sits as an arbitrator.