The Federation Of Indian Corporate Lawyers (FICL) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) to promote international arbitration as a preferred method for resolving international disputes.
Under the MOU, FICL and SIAC will jointly organise in-person, hybrid, and virtual conferences, seminars and workshops on international arbitration in India and Singapore, and will invite key members of their local arbitration community to attend and participate in major events organised by SIAC in India or by FICL in Singapore.
SIAC will conduct training programmes on international arbitration for FICL’s members; and providing marketing support for each other’s international arbitration-related events in India and Singapore.
The MOU was signed on 26 November 2022 by Dr. Ashok Sharma, Founder & CEO, FICL with Dr. SB Mitra Hon President, FICL and Ms Gloria Lim, Chief Executive Officer of SIAC at New Delhi, India.
Key persons from FICL and SIAC who attended the MOU signing ceremony.
FICL
DR SB Mitra, GAIL India
Dr Ashok Sharma FCIArb
Rohan Sharma FCIArb
Mahesh Sreenivasan, RITIES
Rajbeer Sachdeva, JK Organisation
Hemant Rajora, IGL
MM Sharma Formerly STC
Rajiv Chaubey, Dalmia Bharat
Deepak Kumar Barik, GAIL India
Mandeep Singh Chawla, DGH
Navtej Singh, GAIL India
SIAC
Ms Gloria Lim, CEO SIAC
Shwetha Bidhuri, Head (South Asia), SIAC
Kevin Nash Registrar, SIAC
Pranav Budihal, SIAC
Rishabh Malaviya, SIAC
"Indian parties are valued users of SIAC, and we are delighted to strengthen ties with the Indian business and legal community through this partnership with FICL. This MOU provides an excellent platform for SIAC to ensure that our services meet the needs of companies in India, and for SIAC to work with FICL to provide practical programmes that deepen Indian corporate lawyers’ knowledge of international arbitration law and practice”.
Ms Gloria Lim, CEO of SIAC
We are pleased to be entering into this collaboration with SIAC. It will deepen ties between our two organisations while enabling FICL to provide enhanced capacity-building programmes in international arbitration for our members.
Dr. Ashok Sharma, Founder & CEO, FICL
This MOU will strengthen ties between SIAC and FICL as it formally cements the cordial relationship FICL had with SIAC in the past.
Dr. SB Mitra, Hon President, FICL
