Outer Temple Chambers

Barrister; Year of Call 2012

Maanas Jain is a market leading barrister practising in international commercial arbitration, investment treaty disputes and complex commercial litigation.  He has extensive experience of both court and arbitration advocacy and accepts appointments as arbitrator.  He is equally comfortable acting as part of a counsel team or as lead advocate.

For more than a decade, Maanas has advised, represented, and conducted advocacy for corporations and States in complex, high-value commercial and investment treaty arbitrations under all major arbitral rules and across a broad range of sectors (including energy, finance, life sciences, technology, and infrastructure).  Maanas has substantial experience handling disputes involving States or State entities, and a particular focus on cases with an Asia-Pacific or Middle-East connection.

Maanas is also widely sought after to represent parties in arbitration-related court matters and in complex commercial litigation. Most notably, he appeared as counsel in the U.K. Supreme Court on behalf of the ICC in Halliburton v Chubb (the leading English authority on apparent bias in circumstances of multiple arbitral appointments in related cases).

English, Hindi

• Young ICCA Advisory Board
• Young ICCA Co-Chair (2021-2024)
• Chair (Advocacy), Racial Equality for Lawyers
• Peer Review Board Member, ICSID Review

• BPP Law School, Outstanding

• City Law School, Distinction

• Worcester College, Oxford University, B.A.