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Senior Associate
Trial and Global Disputes
/ International Arbitration and Litigation
Shouvik Bhattacharya maintains a broad international disputes practice, with a focus on complex and high-stakes international arbitrations. He also advises clients on issues of US federal and state law with a transnational focus.
Shouvik has extensive experience of 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 (including AAA, HKIAC, ICC, ICDR, LCIA, SIAC, SCC, UNCITRAL).
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.
Prior to joining King & Spalding, Shouvik worked at the arbitration practices of two prominent AmLaw firms. He was trained by the world's leading international arbitration experts. He graduated from Yale Law School and clerked for the Hon. Lorna G. Schofield (S.D.N.Y.).
J.D., Yale Law School
A.B., Vassar College, with honors, Phi Beta Kappa
England and Wales
New York
Judicial Clerk, Hon. Lorna G. Schofield, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
Bengali
French
Hindi
Telugu
Shouvik Bhattacharya to Speak at IAMC Hyderabad’s Panel Discussion
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November 8, 2022
Legal 500 Names Tom Sprange KC to its International Arbitration Powerlist UK 2022
July 25, 2022
Shouvik Bhattacharya Appointed To Young IAMC Steering Committee
April 22, 2022
Legal Business profiles Shouvik Bhattacharya for its feature on the next generation of arbitration lawyers
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.
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September 18, 2023
International Arbitration 2023: England & Wales
August 7, 2023
India to Promote Mining of Lithium and Five Other Critical Minerals
April 18, 2023
Tracking the Environment in Investment Arbitration: The World and India
November 8, 2022
Legal 500 Names Tom Sprange KC to its International Arbitration Powerlist UK 2022
July 25, 2022
Shouvik Bhattacharya Appointed To Young IAMC Steering Committee
April 22, 2022
Legal Business profiles Shouvik Bhattacharya for its feature on the next generation of arbitration lawyers
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.
See more
September 18, 2023
International Arbitration 2023: England & Wales
August 7, 2023
India to Promote Mining of Lithium and Five Other Critical Minerals
April 18, 2023
Tracking the Environment in Investment Arbitration: The World and India
November 8, 2022
Legal 500 Names Tom Sprange KC to its International Arbitration Powerlist UK 2022
July 25, 2022
Shouvik Bhattacharya Appointed To Young IAMC Steering Committee
April 22, 2022
Legal Business profiles Shouvik Bhattacharya for its feature on the next generation of arbitration lawyers
J.D., Yale Law School
A.B., Vassar College, with honors, Phi Beta Kappa
England and Wales
New York
Judicial Clerk, Hon. Lorna G. Schofield, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
Bengali
French
Hindi
Telugu
Shouvik Bhattacharya to Speak at IAMC Hyderabad’s Panel Discussion
View all events