Shouvik Bhattacharya

• Representing the owners of a cryptocurrency exchange in a US$800 million SIAC arbitration under Singapore law regarding breaches of a share purchase agreement arising from an acquisition by one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges.
• Representing a European investor in a Middle Eastern defense-industry joint venture in a major arbitration for breach of contract under the DIFC-LCIA Rules.
• Representing a major LNG facility owner in a New York-seated $1 billion construction arbitration with its EPC contractor governed by the ICC Rules.
• Representing a significant oil and gas company in a long-running ad hoc UNCITRAL arbitration under Indian law relating to cost recovery under a production-sharing contract.
• Representing the majority investors in a major Middle Eastern telecommunications company in a US$2 billion joint-venture dispute, which spans multiple interconnected ICC and LAMC arbitrations.
• Representing a Middle Eastern refinery in a significant breach of contract ICC arbitration under a gas sale and purchase agreement.
• Representing a leading CIS-based software company in related LCIA arbitrations with its US joint-venture partner concerning allegations of fraudulent and negligent misrepresentation with $500 million in dispute.
• Representing numerous leading financial services firms in an ICC arbitration relating to the control of one of Europe's largest gaming companies.
• Representing a prominent CIS mining company in parallel LCIA arbitrations concerning disputed ownership over a copper mine.
• Representing an international oil and gas company in a California-seated expedited AAA-ICDR arbitration against an African oilfield services provider in a breach of contract dispute.
• Representing a prominent natural gas exporter in five separate Stockholm-seated price-review arbitrations governed by the SCC and UNCITRAL Rules.
• Representing a prominent European natural gas exporter in a Geneva-seated price review arbitration against a Middle Eastern importer.
• Representing a Swiss luxury goods manufacturer in a NewYork-seated ICDR arbitration brought by the client’s Middle Eastern distributor for breach of contract.

Shouvik Bhattacharya maintains a broad international disputes practice, with a focus on complex and high-stakes international arbitrations. He is a Solicitor Advocate with higher rights of audience in England and Wales, and also advises clients on issues of US federal and state law with a transnational focus. 

Shouvik has extensive experience with arbitrations in the energy industry.  His clients also include leading telecommunications, mining, financial services, software, luxury goods and manufacturing firms. Shouvik has represented clients at numerous procedural and merits hearings. His cases are sited in both common law and civil law jurisdictions, and he has broad familiarity with the various institutional and ad hoc rules.

Shouvik has represented clients before the European Court of Human Rights and has advised on cases before the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Shouvik regularly teaches and speaks about arbitration, including at Harvard Law School, the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences and the National Law University, Delhi.