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Sushma Ananda
Work Department
Litigation.
Position
Sushma has a broad commercial practice with a particular emphasis on insurance and reinsurance, professional negligence, shipping and international trade, and international arbitration.
Sushma has been instructed in a wide variety of commercial disputes both as sole counsel and as a junior. Sushma has appeared in the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, Commercial Court, county courts and in many international arbitrations (including LMAA, LCIA, ICC, ARIAS, SIAC and Bermuda Form arbitrations). She has undertaken advocacy on her own in many of these forums, including successfully appearing against counsel more senior than her. Sushma also often works as part of a wider counsel team in complex commercial disputes leading to lengthy trials.
Sushma’s highlighted cases include the 2020 COVID-19 business interruption test case (at first instance and in the Supreme Court) brought by the FCA against eight insurers, including Ecclesiastical Insurance Office plc and MS Amlin Underwriting Ltd (Sushma’s clients); Ferster v Ferster [2016] EWCA Civ 717, a case concerned with the unambiguous impropriety exception to without prejudice privilege; and Involnert Management v Aprilgrange Limited [2015] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 289, a multi-million euro professional negligence claim in the Commercial Court concerned with the insurance of a super yacht.
Sushma was called to the Singapore Bar in February 2015. She is ranked in the Legal 500 in Insurance & Reinsurance, International Arbitration, Professional Negligence, Shipping and Commodities. In October 2010 Sushma was cited by Legal Week as one of the “Stars at the Bar”.
Sushma also accepts arbitration appointments. She has acted as an arbitrator appointed by the LCIA Court. She is also on the panel of arbitrators for the Lloyd’s Arbitration Scheme, Tiers 1 and 2.
Career
Called 2007, Lincoln’s Inn (Marchant and Hardwick scholar); tenant since 2008.
Languages
Malay; Kannada (spoken).
Memberships
COMBAR; LMAA; LCIA; LCLCBA
Education
Anglo-Chinese Junior College, Singapore; Trinity College, Cambridge (2006 BA First Class); Inns of Court School of Law (2007 BVC).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Shipping
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Sushma Ananda – 7 King’s Bench Walk ‘Sushma has a very good depth of knowledge and is most thorough. Her written advice is always most comprehensive and well-written.’
London Bar > Commodities
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Sushma Ananda – 7 King’s Bench Walk ‘Sushma has a very good depth of knowledge and is most thorough, as well as extremely user-friendly and a pleasure to work with.’
London Bar > Insurance and reinsurance
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Sushma Ananda – 7 King’s Bench Walk ‘Very clever but also approachable and patient. Understands the questions clients will ask and present complicated concepts in a way that clients can understand. First-class attention to detail but also understands the bigger picture. Very responsive but manages expectation well when she is in trial.’
London Bar > International arbitration: counsel
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2London Bar > Professional negligence
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 6Sushma Ananda – 7 King’s Bench Walk ‘Sushma has a very good depth of knowledge and is most thorough. Her written advice is always most comprehensive and well-written.’