Gautham Chandrakumar

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.