Gautham Chandrakumar

Associate, London

Biography

Overview

Gautham focuses his practice on commercial litigation and international arbitration. He represents a broad range of clients – including state-owned entities, major financial institutions, private equity funds, and multinational corporations, – in complex and high-value disputes. Gautham has a strong background in energy and natural resources, private equity, banking and competition law (particularly in the field of follow-on damages claims).

Apart from conducting commercial litigation before the English courts, Gautham has experience in a number of institutional and ad hoc international commercial arbitrations, particularly in the context of energy and natural resources disputes. Gautham also has experience of managing and coordinating cross-border disputes and foreign proceedings in a number of different jurisdictions around the world.

Prior to joining the firm in 2021, he worked at another prominent US firm in London.

Bars and Courts
England and Wales
Education
LPC
BPP Law School
Maîtrise
University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
Bachelor of Laws (LLB)
King's College London
Languages
English
French
Tamil

Experience