​Name: 
Anish Wadia​ FPD

Location:  
Mumbai, India. 
Contact details: 
+91-98203-68768

Detailed CV available on request from Prime Dispute. 

Qualifications: 
FPD, C.Arb, CIP(FAIADR), PAP-KFCRI, SFBiam, FACICA, FMIArb, FHKIArb, FSIArb, FPIArb, FAArb, FAMINZ(Arb/Med), FMP KFCRI, CFCILS, LL.B., B.Com.

Specialisation: 
Experienced independent international arbitrator and lawyer with full rights of audience before courts in India as an Advocate, England and Wales as a Solicitor Advocate, the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) as a Legal Practitioner, the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC) as a Registered Foreign Lawyer and Prime Dispute as a Certified Educator & conflict/dispute avoidance/resolution Panel Member. 

Languages:
English, Hindi, Urdu, Gujarati , 
Marathi (intermediate) and French (very basic).

Regions served: 
India, United Kingdom, Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong, China and further International regions as requested.
Videos:
Industry Sectors:*​
  • Aerospace, Defence and Automative
  • ​Accountancy 
  • Architectural
  • Banking & Capital Markets
  • Business Services & International Markets
  • Charities and Donors
  • Chemicals & Performance & Technologies
  • ​Engineering
  • Energy and Natural Resources
  • Family Welfare 
  • Fashion 
  • ​Financial Services
  • Food and Drink
  • Forest, paper & packaging
  • ​Government & Public Sector
  • Healthcare
  • Hospitality & Leisure
  • Human Resources
  • Insurance
  • Intellectual Property
  • Legal, ADR & ODR 
  • Land, Property, Construction & Infrastructure
  • Leisure
  • Life Sciences
  • Manufacturing
  • Media & Entertainment
  • Mining & Metals
  • Oil & Gas
  • Private Equity
  • Professional Services
  • Religion 
  • Retail & consumer
  • Sports
  • Space
  • ​Strategy 
  • Technology & Telecommunications
  • ​Training & Development
  • Transport
  • Wealth & Asset Management​
Practice Areas: *​​
  • Arbitration
  • Arb-Med
  • Commercial Negotiator
  • Dispute Board Member
  • Emergency Arbitration 
  • Expert Witness
  • Independent Expert
  • ​Early Neutral Evaluator 
  • Specialist Panel​​
Background information: 
Anish Wadia is an experienced, internationally accredited, full-time independent Chartered Arbitrator, Emergency Arbitrator and Accredited Mediator: with experience acting as such in common law and civil law jurisdictions, as well as in Hong Kong and under the Laws of China. He is also a qualified Lawyer with full rights of audience before Courts in India as an ‘Advocate’; England & Wales as a ‘Solicitor Advocate’ (Civil); and Kazakhstan as a 'Lawyer (AIFC Courts)’. He is also an accredited Sports Arbitrator (AIAC and the Olympic Council of Malaysia).
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Anish has received numerous other accolades in the field of International ADR including being voted as one of the youngest Top 10 Arbitrators in Asia Pacific and receiving the ‘Outstanding Global Achievement in International Arbitration’ Award in 2019. In 2020 he received the ‘Dispute Resolution Award of the Year (Global)’ and in 2021 the ‘Dispute Resolution Award of the Year (Asia)’, both in the United Kingdom. Anish is also ranked by the prestigious Who’s Who Legal: Future Leaders (Partners) in Arbitration for 2021 and 2022 as “one of the most recommended arbitrators” who “is precise and diligent, very considerate on the impartiality and due process” and whose “experience includes acting under the ICC Rules in disputes involving parties spanning across EMEA and APAC” as well as being recognised for “His practical and quick approach to render Awards is well known and admired among peers”.

Anish is Regularly appointed as Chair/Presiding Arbitrator, Sole Arbitrator, Wing/Co-Arbitrator, Emergency Arbitrator & Mediator including under the ICC Rules, [English] Arbitration Act 1996, [Indian] Arbitration & Conciliation Act 1996, KIAC Rules (Rwanda-Africa), ad-hoc arbitrations: across a broad spectrum of commodities, construction, corporate, financial, commercial, oil & gas, telecom, solar power, EPC, white-collar crimes, employment, labour, maritime, travel/tourism, aviation, etc. disputes.

Anish is regularly invited as a Lecturer/Speaker/Trainer on International Arbitration and Mediation including for the Judiciary: most notably, for a 2-week intensive training for the Judiciary of The Bahamas (including Justices of the Hon’ble Supreme Court led by the Chief Justice of The Bahamas) organised by BJEI jointly with ICSID, PCA, UNCITRAL and ICCA.​

Publications 
  • Prof. Dr. Eckart Brödermann and Anish Wadia, The UNIDROIT Principles Demystified: An Overview for the Indian Subcontinent.
  • Anish Wadia and Magdalena Göbel, CEAC’s 10th Anniversary Arbitration Conference on China’s Belt and Road Initiative: A Report on the Common and Civil Law Perspectives viz. the Interplay between the UNIDROIT Principles and the CISG – published in a special issue of the Hamburg Law Review (HLR) on 08 August 2019: ‘Towards Use of the UNIDROIT Principles 2016 in Practice – a Bridge between Common and Civil Law’ [(2018) 2 HLR 107-120] – Read More 
  • Member of the team of authors for the Indian Arbitration Forum (IAF) that prepared the Best Practices Guidelines for Conduct of Arbitral Proceedings (IAF Guidelines, April 2018) – Read More
  • Anish Wadia and Shivani Rawat, Third-Party Funding in Arbitration – India’s Readiness in a Global Context – published in ‘Transnational Dispute Management - Special Issue on International Commercial and Investment Disputes in and with India’ [(2018) 15(2) TDM] – Read More
Detailed CV available on request from Prime Dispute. 

CERTIFIED EDUCATOR ​

The benefits of certification as a Prime Dispute Educator 
  • Meet all relevant policies, procedures and criteria to deliver training & development courses at Prime Dispute; 
  • Meet a global, industry-recognised benchmark (Terms & Conditions for Educators)​;
  • Are consistent, comparable and reliable worldwide;
  • Demonstrate necessary knowledge and skills;
  • Are recognised by Industry sectors, professionals and peers as an Educator.
ANISH WADIA / FPD CERTIFIED EDUCATOR 

PANELS

Our ★★★★★ represent the following: 
  • Agreed to abide by 'Criteria for inclusion on  Prime Dispute's Panels';
  • Applications for both senior 'Fellowship' and 'Panels' approved;
  • Agreed to abide by Prime Dispute's 'Administration Process of Cases Note' & 'Schedule of Fees for all Cases';
  • Agreed to abide by Prime Dispute's 'User Agreement for FPD (Fellow Prime Dispute) Members'';
  • Agreed to abide by Prime Dispute's 'Business Ethics and Conflict of Interest Policy' - Including 'Section 6' on 'Business Ethics for Dispute Resolver'. ​​​​
ANISH WADIA / FPD PANEL MEMBER​​

ARBITRATOR PANEL - ✓
EMERGENCY ARBITRATOR PANEL - ✓
MEDIATOR PANEL - ✓ 
*Prime Dispute also provides a 'Formal Appointment Service', All our senior neutrals who are officially appointed will need to comply with our ' Formal Criteria' before nomination.
*Conflict checks would need to be undertaken prior to the neutral being formally appointed.

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