Ciccu Mukhopadhaya, specialises in international and domestic arbitration. He has over 35 years of experience in dispute resolution and was designated as a Senior Advocate (equivalent to Silk) in the year 2011.

He has acted as a counsel in over 225 arbitration cases under ad hoc and institutional arrangements (ICC, LCIA, SIAC and UNCITRAL). Additionally, he has acted as a counsel in arbitrations under various trade bodies including GAFTA, FOSFA and Chamber of Commerce arbitrations. He frequently sits as arbitrator (party-appointed and chair) in international and domestic commercial arbitrations. He has also been a mediator and assisted as counsel in mediations both domestic and international.

Ciccu Mukhopadhaya, regularly appears before the Supreme Court of India and various High Courts in constitutional and commercial matters. Additionally, he has assisted various courts (Supreme Court and High Courts) in ancillary arbitration proceedings such as the appointment of arbitrators, interim measure proceedings, post-award challenges and enforcement proceedings, both for domestic and foreign awards. He has appeared before National Company Law Tribunal, National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission and Appellate Tribunal for Electricity.

Experience in arbitration related to diverse subject matters such as civil and structural construction projects (including transmission towers, power evacuation facilities, roads, ports, airports and railway lines), oil & gas construction contracts, power plant construction contracts and infrastructure projects (road, ports and airports). Further, he has experience in arbitration relating to technology transfer agreements, production sharing contracts, company-shareholder disputes, joint venture agreements disputes, collaboration agreements disputes, private public partnership agreements, investment disputes (including FDI related issues), trade and shipping disputes, e-governance projects and intellectual property disputes.

In addition to the dispute practice, he has extensive experience in advisory and corporate transactional work including drafting commercial contracts for the transfer of technology, foreign investment supply agreements, distributorship and agency agreements, turnkey contracts for setting up power plants (EPC Contracts), refurbishment contracts for power plants, operation and maintenance contracts, power purchase agreements, banking & finance including contracts for financial assistance concerning infrastructural, BOT & BOLT Contracts, Software Licensing Agreements, Shareholders Agreements, Joint Venture Agreements, Collaboration Agreements, etc.

He is currently the President of the ICC’s Indian Commission on Arbitration. He was also the Vice President, the ICC Court of Arbitration, Paris