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Clasis Law
4th Floor, Tolstoy House
Tolstoy Marg
New Delhi 110001
India

Work Department

Shipping and International Trade Disputes

Position

Associate Partner

Career

Nihal is an Associate Partner at the firm. He specializes in Shipping and International Trade Disputes, focusing mainly on charter parties, bills of lading, shipbuilding, rig disputes, collisions and limitation. He is actively involved in ship arrests and/or release not only in Mumbai but also other High Courts across India.

He has significant experience in representing clients in both domestic and international arbitrations, having seat in India and abroad. His experience covers advising on negotiation strategy, conducting arbitration hearings and, where necessary, seeking resource from courts, including in respect of appointment of arbitrators, grant of interim relief, challenge and enforcement of arbitration awards.

He is actively advising clients at the pre insolvency stage or during the corporate insolvency resolution process (advising the committee of creditors or the resolution professional), to acquisition of the stressed asset via an insolvency process. He regularly appears before the National Company Law Tribunal on behalf of the clients.

He has extensive experience in handling employment disputes, airline disputes, consumer complaints and criminal matters.

Languages

English and Hindi

Memberships

Member of Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa

Education

BSL. LL.B.

LL.M.

Lawyer Rankings

India > Shipping

(Next Generation Partners)

Nihal Shaikh – Clasis Law

Clasis Law‘s admiralty and shipping team advises a diverse client roster on a wide array of matters, encompassing both contentious and non-contentious issues related to charterparties and disputes arising from bills of lading. Leading the Mumbai office, Mustafa Motiwala oversees the litigation and dispute resolution practice, providing counsel and representation across both wet and dry shipping issues. In New Delhi, Shwetabh Sinha co-heads the practice and specialises in contentious work, with extensive experience in complex cases pertaining to dry and wet shipping, as well as insurance claims and trade mark mandates. The practice receives further support from associates Nihal Shaikh and Vishesh Kulkarni.