Samvad Partners

Litigation and Disputes | Employment Law | Restructuring and Insolvency

Co-founder and Senior Partner

Poornima heads the dispute resolution practice at Samvad Partners and was part of the founding team. She has a wide range of experience on corporate and commercial dispute resolution, including shareholder disputes, infrastructure projects, investment related disputes and insolvency issues.

Poornima also has strong expertise as an anti harassment professional particularly in relation to anti sexual harassment issues at the workplace. She sits as an external independent professional on a number of enquiry committees.

Poornima is also a trained mediator. She works with various public interest organisations particularly on matters of urban planning and growth on a pro bono basis.

Poornima is a visiting faculty member at the National Law School of India University and a guest lecturer at IIM, Bengaluru and is a member of the LCIA-Young International Arbitration Group and the Australasian Forum of International Arbitration, the Indian Arbitration Forum

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LLM, London School of Economics, UK, 2006 (Graduate Merit Scholar) National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, 2003 (B.A., LL.B (Hons.)