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Contact with chambers should be made through the Practice Management Team. They are happy to discuss client requirements and provide further information on such matters as the expertise and experience of individual members, fees, working practices and languages spoken. We have members able to work in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Greek and Chinese (Mandarin).

Outside working hours, a member of our team is always available to be contacted on matters of an urgent nature. Contact should be made using the Chambers main number or email.

For our Singapore office, for client enquiries please contact our Head of Business Development for Asia Pacific, Katie-Beth Jones, and for all other queries please contact Lynn Quek. Out of office hours calls will automatically be diverted to our practice management team in London.

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20 Essex Street
London
WC2R 3AL

enquiries@twentyessex.com
t: +44 20 7842 1200

Singapore

28 Maxwell Road
#02-03 Maxwell Chambers Suites
Singapore 069120

singapore@twentyessex.com
t: +65 62257230

Contact

Contact with chambers should be made through the Practice Management Team. They are happy to discuss client requirements and provide further information on such matters as the expertise and experience of individual members, fees, working practices and languages spoken. We have members able to work in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Greek and Chinese (Mandarin).

Outside working hours, a member of our team is always available to be contacted on matters of an urgent nature. Contact should be made using the Chambers main number or email.

For our Singapore office, for client enquiries please contact our Head of Business Development for Asia Pacific, Katie-Beth Jones, and for all other queries please contact Lynn Quek. Out of office hours calls will automatically be diverted to our practice management team in London.

London

20 Essex Street
London
WC2R 3AL

enquiries@twentyessex.com
t: +44 20 7842 1200

Singapore

28 Maxwell Road
#02-03 Maxwell Chambers Suites
Singapore 069120

singapore@twentyessex.com
t: +65 62257230

Rishab Gupta

Rishab Gupta

Call: 2007 (India); 2008 (New York); 2021 (England and Wales)

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.

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Rishab is a very hard working highly intelligent lawyer with clarity of thinking and expression and his attention to detail is first-class. A consummate lawyer and clever tactician who is always prepared to roll his sleeves up and work with the team – phenomenal.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2024

His advice has been thorough. He goes through every document, prepares for multiple scenarios and also advises on dispute prevention.

Chambers Asia-Pacific 2024

 He is highly rated for his international arbitration expertise.

Chambers Asia-Pacific 2024

Among all the practitioners I've worked with in the recent past in India, the quality of Rishab's work, advice and preparation are absolutely top-notch.

Chambers Asia-Pacific 2024

An ‘outstanding lawyer’.

Chambers Global 2022

Global thought leader.

Who’s Who Legal 2022

Future leader of arbitration.

Who’s Who Legal 2018, 2019 & 2020

Global leader.

Who’s Who Legal 2020 & 2021

Top 100 Lawyers.

Forbes India Legal Powerlist, 2021

Recognised in ‘Top 40 lawyers in India under 40’.

Legal Era 2019

One of the 40 “Young Legal Eagles” of the Indian Legal Ecosystem.

BW Legal World 40 under 40

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