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About
Provided by Nehali Shah
Practice Areas
Nehali is a leading commercial junior, with extensive experience of complex and high-value commercial litigation and international arbitration, both led and unled. She has appeared at all levels in the English Courts (including the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal), and in a variety of other Tribunals, both arbitral (e.g. LCIA, ICC, UNCITRAL, SIAC, KLRCA and LMAA) and regulatory (e.g. the RDC), and in expert determination. Nehali practises in all aspects of commercial law, including general commercial, banking, financial services and restructuring, energy, civil fraud, professional negligence, arbitration and jurisdiction. She has previously won Banking Junior of the Year and International Junior of the Year, and been nominated for Commercial Dispute Resolution Junior of the Year.
Career
Called 2008, Middle Temple.
Professional Memberships
COMBAR; ChBA; LCLCBA.
Personal
Education: St Paul’s Girls’ School; Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge (BA Hons Law Double First); Harvard Law School (LLM); Inns of Court School of Law (BVC).
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Nehali Shah is a standout junior who has forged a fantastic reputation across a number of related fields for being a highly intelligent and hard-working practitioner. She has particularly pronounced experience with regard to noteholder, private equity and restructuring cases, and regularly handles matters relating to sale disputes, LIBOR manipulation and derivatives. As a consequence of her popularity, her enviable client list includes leading international investment banks, hedge funds and private equity firms.
Nehali Shah is a highly regarded junior with a strong practice advising clients on all aspects of upstream and downstream oil and gas disputes. She regularly appears in commercial litigation and arbitrations, both domestically and internationally, and a number of her cases focus on the financing aspects of projects.
Nehali Shah assists in high-stakes international arbitrations under the rules of institutions such as the LCIA, the ICC, the LMAA and UNCITRAL, as well as enforcement proceedings ancillary to such arbitrations. Her cases concern a myriad of matters including energy, finance and insurance disputes.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Nehali Shah's drafting is on-point and persuasive. She is very strategic in her input."
"Nehali is fearsomely bright."
"Nehali Shah is very clever, very down to earth and also very responsive."
"She is incredibly client-friendly, but also great at technical pleadings. A whole range of clients seek her out."
"Nehali is incredible. She is very clever, very down to earth and also very responsive and very straightforward."
"Nehali has a first-rate forensic mind and is highly persuasive as an advocate. She's superbly thorough and provides excellent value for clients, providing silk-quality work."
"Nehali is extremely responsive and very good at analysing and synthesising a vast amount of material in a tight timeframe."
"She is engaged, intelligent and a good advocate."
"Nehali is very good, very detailed, and a good strong banking junior."
"Nehali is a go-to senior junior. She's an absolute superstar. She's calm and smart, and everyone likes working with her."
"Nehali Shah's drafting is on-point and persuasive. She is very strategic in her input."
"Nehali is fearsomely bright."
"Nehali Shah is very clever, very down to earth and also very responsive."
"She is incredibly client-friendly, but also great at technical pleadings. A whole range of clients seek her out."
"Nehali is incredible. She is very clever, very down to earth and also very responsive and very straightforward."
"Nehali has a first-rate forensic mind and is highly persuasive as an advocate. She's superbly thorough and provides excellent value for clients, providing silk-quality work."
"Nehali is extremely responsive and very good at analysing and synthesising a vast amount of material in a tight timeframe."
"She is engaged, intelligent and a good advocate."
"Nehali is very good, very detailed, and a good strong banking junior."
"Nehali is a go-to senior junior. She's an absolute superstar. She's calm and smart, and everyone likes working with her."
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