Amrutanshu Dash
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Amrutanshu Dash

Associate

Email

amrutanshu.dash@aoshearman.com

Phone

+65 6671 6240

Offices

Singapore

V-CARD
Amrutanshu advises and represents private clients, sovereign states and state-owned entities in complex commercial and investor-state disputes.
 

He usually works on high value international commercial arbitrations, investor-state arbitrations and related court litigations such as challenge to, and enforcement of arbitral awards. Over the years, Amrutanshu has worked on disputes spanning multiple sectors like energy, infrastructure, health services, FMCG, real estate and banking and finance being arbitrated under the major arbitral rules (like SIAC, ICSID, ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL).
 
Amrutanshu has also worked as a disputes lawyer in New Delhi (India). During his time in India, he focussed on commercial law and constitutional law disputes across various judicial forums including the Indian Supreme Court and the High Courts of Delhi and Bombay.
 
Amrutanshu completed his undergraduate law degree as the overall topper and was awarded ten gold medals for his academic and all-round performance. Following this, he received a full scholarship (from the British Council and Balliol College) to complete his master of laws degree (BCL) from the University of Oxford. At Oxford, Amrutanshu graduated with an overall distinction and the Law Faculty Prize for topping the Intellectual Property law paper.

Expertise

Experience

Representative matters

  • A major Korean corporation in a confidential treaty claim against an African State. The claim concerns the frustration of the client’s investments in the energy sector and acts of the African State’s ministry, head of State, judiciary, and a State-owned corporation.
  • An Asian state on post-award proceedings in relation to an investment treaty dispute.
  • A Southeast Asian state in a treaty dispute involving a significantly valuable real estate project in the state.
  • A major Korean company in relation to potential treaty claims in the energy sector against an APAC State.
  • A global mining conglomerate on the strategic structuring of its prospective mining investments in the Asian and African region respectively to optimize treaty-based protections.
  • An Australian resource company on the applicability of international treaty protections for its mining investments in an Asian jurisdiction.
  • Shell (formerly BG) and Reliance Industries Limited on multi-phased arbitration proceedings commenced under the UNCITRAL Rules against the Government of India relating to disputes exceeding USD 5 billion arising out of two production sharing contracts, and also advising them in related court proceedings.
  • A major Indian state-owned entity on its prospects for challenging an adverse ICC arbitral award before the English Courts in relation to its investments in a South American state.
  • A Taiwanese company in relation to a post M&A ICC arbitration in the FMCG sector.
  • An international private healthcare group based in Malaysia on various disputes (including a SIAC arbitration) following its investment into a Singapore-based healthcare company specialising in the provision of specialist diagnostic tests, with subsidiaries in Singapore. Malaysia and Hong Kong.
  • A major Indian contractor in a Singapore-seated SIAC arbitration against its Chinese subcontractor in connection with one of the largest power projects in India.
  • An American private equity firm in a dispute with their joint venture partners in an Indian non-banking, financial company.
  • A contractor (JV company between a Spanish and Indian construction major) in an ad hoc Indian law governed arbitration dispute with the employers involving the construction of a USD250 million+ LNG plant in India. (previous firm experience)
  • The Indian subsidiary of a Danish wind turbine company in its challenge to an arbitral award (arising out of an India seated arbitration) and defending parallel execution proceedings before the High Court of Bombay. (previous firm experience)

Published Work

  • Sheila Ahuja, Amrutanshu Dash, (2022), “Indian Supreme Court to clear arbitrator appointment backlog across the country (M/s Shree Vishnu Constructions v The Engineer in Chief, Military Engineering Service)”, LexisNexis Legal News
  • Sheila Ahuja, Amrutanshu Dash, (2022), “Protecting Investments of Indian Investors Abroad – The Other Side of the (BIT) Coin”, Legal Era
  • Amrutanshu Dash (co-author), (2016), “Arrest Warrants at the International Criminal Court: Reasonable Suspicion or Reasonable Grounds to Believe?”, International Criminal Law Review, Volume 16(1), pp. 158-176

Qualifications

Admissions

Solicitor, England and Wales, 2022

Registered Foreign Lawyer, Singapore, 2022 

Advocate, India, 2016

Academic

BCL, Law, University of Oxford, 2017 (Overall Distinction & Law Faculty Prize)

B.A., LL.B. (Hons.), Law, National Law University Delhi, 2016 (Overall topper and gold medallist)

Languages

English, Indian (Hindi)
Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.