We would like to extend a warm welcome to our ADR Specialist, Chanakya Dwivedi.
Chanakya is a lawyer licensed in India and soon to be a licensed in Ontario. With over a decade of legal experience, his legal background encompasses a wide range of roles as a litigator and an arbitration specialist. He has served as a Counsel for the Federal Government of India at the Supreme Court of India. He has also been a part of various high stakes international commercial arbitrations.
Chanakya is a former professor of Alternate Dispute Resolution at the Symbiosis International University, India and has been acting as an arbitrator at the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot since 2015. In addition, he also has experience as an in-house counsel, heading the legal department at a hospitality company and playing a key part in their project’s development team.
He has degrees in Bachelor of Business Administration and Bachelor of Laws (B.B.A. LL.B.) from India and also holds a Master of Laws degree from Cornell University.
