Promod Nair is a Senior Advocate who appears regularly before the Supreme Court of India and the Karnataka, Bombay and New Delhi High Courts and a wide variety of other courts and tribunals in India. He is also admitted as a Solicitor Advocate with Higher Rights of Audience in England and Wales (currently non-practising).
He has extensive experience of appearing as counsel in complex disputes and has a wide-ranging practice encompassing commercial litigation, public law, arbitration and white-collar offences.
Promod has acted as counsel or arbitrator in over sixty domestic and international arbitrations, and has conducted arbitrations in various jurisdictions in Asia, Europe and North America and under various institutional rules such as the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), London Court of Arbitration (LCIA), Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) and the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). He has been appointed as arbitrator by the ICC, LCIA, SIAC, LCIA India and has also acted as emergency arbitrator. Promod has also been instructed as expert witness on Indian law in English and Hong Kong court proceedings.
Promod has represented the Republic of India in arbitrations commenced under Bilateral Investment Treaties and has also represented India at the United Nations.
Promod served as a member of the LCIA Court between 2013 and 2018. He is currently a Council Member of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (where he serves on the Proceedings Committee), a member of the Advisory Council of the Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration and a Governing Council Member of the International Arbitration and Mediation Centre, Hyderabad.
Promod holds degrees in law from the National Law School of India (2001) where he graduated at the top of his class and the University of Cambridge where he was awarded the Clive Parry (Overseas) Prize in International Law and DFID-Cambridge and Pegasus Scholarships. He is a Visiting Lecturer at the National Law School of India where he teaches a course on Arbitration Law and Practice.