Jeet H Shroff
Jeet is a Senior Associate specialising in international arbitration and commercial litigation.
Jeet has experience advising on a broad range of high-value, complex international disputes. He has significant experience advising clients in the private equity, energy and infrastructure sectors and of acting in post-M&A disputes. He has represented clients in arbitrations under the ICC, LCIA, SIAC and UNCITRAL rules, and under many different governing laws.
Jeet has also appeared before courts in India and has experience of other forms of alternative dispute resolution including expert determinations, mediations and conciliations.
Background
Jeet is dual qualified, admitted as an attorney in New York and as an advocate in India. He holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Mumbai and a Master of Laws from Harvard.
Experience & expertise
Selected matters
- a Mauritian private equity fund in a Singapore-seated, SIAC arbitration to secure specific performance of its put option under a shareholder agreement after the put option was triggered by the takeover of its Dutch joint venture partner by a French media giant*
- a Mauritian private equity fund in a Singapore-seated, SIAC emergency arbitration proceedings to effect a sale of shares simultaneously with a global change of control transaction*
- an Asian conglomerate’s infrastructure and hotel companies in a Singapore-seated, ICC arbitration against a Mauritian private equity fund seeking to exit its investment by exercise of its rights under a shareholder agreement including related oppression and anti-suit proceedings before a company law tribunal and anti-suit proceedings before the Singapore High Court*
- an Indian construction company in a Mumbai-seated arbitration arising out of delays in effecting major maintenance work on a national highway including emergency arbitration proceedings to prevent a call on bank bonds*
- a South Korean trading and investment company in a Delhi-seated arbitration administered by the Indian Council of Arbitration against a state trading entity including enforcement proceedings before local court*
* Experience gained prior to joining Herbert Smith Freehills
