Hiroo Advani, the managing partner and founder of Advani & Co, one of the country’s oldest arbitration practices, has joined the senior partnership of Bharucha & Partners and brought his team with him.
“I thought the combination of both our firms would attract many more high-value international and domestic arbitrations,” said Advani. “Bharucha & Partners is a highly reputed firm with an arbitration practice.”
As a result of Advani and his team moving to Bharucha, Advani & Co’s Mumbai and Delhi offices will close.
Justin Bharucha, the managing partner of Bharucha & Partners, credits Shivani Bagdai, the founder of TriChambers Consulting for the union. “[Shivani] got in touch with me and asked if we would be interested in exploring an opportunity with Hiroo. We clearly were and conversations took off from there.”
On his decision to work together with Advani, Bharucha said “Hiroo’s experience and stature speak for themselves and there’s little to add. Hiroo’s trained each member of his team and that is an advantage, which few young lawyers can own to. This is very much a ‘win-win’ for all of us.”
Advani, who founded his firm in 1986 has acted for some of the largest players internationally in oil and gas, infrastructure, construction, and the renewable energy space. He has been lead counsel in institutional arbitrations at the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, the London Court of International Arbitration, the International Chamber of Commerce and the SCC Arbitration Institute in Sweden.
Advani also appears before Indian courts and most recently, he was lead counsel in the landmark Group of Companies Doctrine case – Cox and Kings Ltd v SAP India Pvt Ltd (2024) – where a constitutional bench of the Supreme Court chaired by the chief justice of India held that non-signatories to an arbitration clause were held to be subject to arbitration proceedings.
