Neelu Mohan

Neelu is an Advocate with a practice focussed on commercial litigation, arbitration as well as regulatory advisory matters. As an Advocate-on-Record registered with the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India, she is in a select group of attorneys qualified to file matters before the Indian Supreme Court. Neelu is also a Supreme Court Panel Counsel for the Union of India. Neelu regularly represents clients in high value disputes arising out of shareholder agreements, production sharing contracts in the oil and gas sector, as well as work contracts in the field of heavy engineering. She has appeared before several tribunals, both domestic and international, in arbitrations administered under the SIAC, ICC and LCIA rules, along with several other ad hoc arbitrations seated in London, Singapore, and India. In the recent past, Neelu was instructed and appeared before an international tribunal seated in London in an English law governed dispute on behalf of a Libyan off-shore construction company conducted under the ICC Rules. During her engagement as a junior advocate assisting a leading Senior Counsel (equivalent to a Queen’s Counsel), she has also appeared in several landmark cases before the Supreme Court including on matters relating to arbitration law and has also appeared in the matter relating to the eligibility of foreign law firms to set-up practice in India. Neelu has successfully pleaded cases before fora such as the Competition Commission of India, National Company Law Tribunal, the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal, and the High Court of Delhi. While engaged as a Senior Associate at a top tier law firm, Neelu was on secondment to the legal team of a leading ride-hailing application, giving her the opportunity to advise on the rapidly developing legal and regulatory framework unique to the sector during its initial stages of development. Neelu is the Associate Editor of NFRAL, a research-based initiative under the aegis of the National Law University, Bhopal aimed at creating access to arbitration law jurisprudence to practitioners, students and academicians alike. Neelu obtained her primary law degree (LL.B.) from the ILS Law College, University of Pune, India. Neelu also holds a master’s degree in Global Business Laws (LL.M.) from Columbia Law School, New York.