Navdeep Dahiya
Senior Associate
Professional Affiliations
Bar Council of Punjab & HaryanaBombay Bar Association
Education
L.L.B., Government Law College, Mumbai
Languages Known
English, Hindi
Office
Mumbai, India
Overview
Navdeep has over five years of experience in handling a wide range of commercial disputes. He has represented clients before arbitral institutions, tribunals, and commercial courts, as well as advised and appeared in regulatory forums such as the National Company Law Tribunal, the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity, the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal, and the Securities Appellate Tribunal.
Navdeep’s experience extends to managing mandates involving third-party litigation funding in India, primarily focusing on the oil and gas, construction, power, pharmaceutical, and IT sectors, with the majority of his clients based in India.
Practice Areas
Commercial Disputes; Arbitration
Indicative Experience
- Representing Cox & Kings in arbitration proceedings against SAP India Private Limited and SAP GmbH, addressing the inclusion of non-signatories in arbitration under Indian law. This case culminated in a landmark Supreme Court judgment that upheld the “Group of Companies” Doctrine.
- Representing an American pharmaceutical technology company in an international arbitration concerning shareholder disputes with Indian vendors.
- Representing an American pharmaceutical company in depositions related to the off-license use and theft of the first mRNA Covid vaccine technology by an Indian licensee.
- Representing a domestic pipe supplier in a domestic ad hoc arbitration against ONGC regarding disputes over a subsea oil pipeline.
- Representing an offshore EPC contractor in an international commercial arbitration against ONGC relating to delays in constructing wellhead platforms in the B-193 oil field near Mumbai.
- Representing an offshore EPC contractor in an international commercial arbitration against ONGC relating to delays in modifying oil process platforms in the Mumbai High North oil field.
- Representing a French EPC contractor in a domestic ad hoc arbitration concerning the repudiation of a contract for a biomass power plant in Rajasthan.
- Representing a domestic glass manufacturing conglomerate in an ICC international arbitration against Cerrinov regarding the repudiation of a supply contract for glass manufacturing machinery.
- Representing a domestic contractor in a domestic arbitration against Emerson India Limited relating to delays in the construction of an industrial campus in Pune, Maharashtra.
- Assisting in two India-seated ICC arbitrations for Steel Authority of India Limited against a consortium of Tata Projects and Danieli Chorus regarding delays in the construction of a steel plant.
- Assisting in an ICC arbitration for Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited against a Malaysian EPC contractor regarding delays in constructing an oil pipeline.
- Representing a Tanzanian client in executing a third-party litigation funding transaction for the prosecution of recovery claims against an Indian contractor.
- Representing a Singapore-based client in executing a third-party litigation funding transaction for claims against a government-operated oil and gas company in an ad hoc India-seated arbitration.
- Representing a global electrical systems supplier in an SIAC arbitration concerning delays in constructing a power plant in Rwanda.