Overview
DRSB Law Chambers has built one of its principal practices around arbitration – both domestic and international. Led by Dr. Shashwat Bajpai, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb, UK) and the ICC-YAAF Representative for South Asia, our team handles the full lifecycle of dispute resolution from the drafting of arbitration agreements and pre-arbitration notices, through evidentiary hearings and written submissions, to award enforcement and challenge proceedings.
We appear before ad-hoc arbitral tribunals constituted under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (as amended), as well as before leading institutional arbitral forums including DIAC, SIAC, ICC, PCA, AIAC, ICADR, and MCIA. Dr. Bajpai has also been appointed as Sole Arbitrator by the Delhi High Court and serves on the arbitrator panels of DIAC and AIAC.
What We Do
- Domestic commercial arbitrations — ad-hoc and institutional
- International commercial arbitrations — SIAC, ICC, PCA, AIAC, LCIA-India (now DIAC)
- EPC and construction contract arbitrations — FIDIC suite contracts
- Investment treaty arbitrations
- Drafting and reviewing arbitration agreements and bespoke arbitration clauses
- Notices invoking arbitration — drafting and issuance
- Statements of claim, counter-claims, and rejoinders
- Written submissions and affidavits of evidence
- Applications under Sections 8, 9, 11, 17, 34, and 37 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (as amended)
- Section 11 petitions for appointment of arbitrator(s) before High Courts
- Arbitration Petitions (Arb. Pet.), OMPs, CS(OS), RFA(OS), and FAO(OS)
- Applications for interim relief under Sections 9 and 17
- Interim injunctions to restrain encashment of bank guarantees in advance of or during arbitral proceedings
- Enforcement and execution of domestic and foreign arbitral awards
- Challenges to arbitral awards under Section 34
Representative Experience
- Represent clients in domestic and international arbitration proceedings before ad hoc and institutional arbitral tribunals, including arbitrations administered under the rules of the ICC, SIAC, LCIA, LMAA, PCA, and DIAC, as well as related proceedings before various High Courts and the Supreme Court of India involving interim relief, jurisdictional challenges, enforcement, and setting aside of arbitral awards.
- EPC arbitrations concerning claims and counterclaims relating to delay and disruption, prolongation costs, variation and change-order claims, extension of time, liquidated damages, wrongful withholding of payments, defective work allegations, contractual interpretation, force majeure, and termination of contracts in relation to metro rail projects, as well as major road and highway, power generation and transmission, and aviation infrastructure projects across India.
Client identities, matter-specific details, and representations before Courts and Arbitral Tribunals have been redacted to preserve confidentiality obligations and protect privileged client information.