Amrutanshu Dash

Amrutanshu Dash is an Associate at A&O Shearman in Singapore, focusing on Arbitration and Mediation. He 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 challenges to, and enforcement of, arbitral awards. Over the years he has worked on disputes spanning sectors including energy, infrastructure, health services, FMCG, real estate and banking and finance, arbitrated under major arbitral rules such as SIAC, ICSID, ICC, LCIA and UNCITRAL.

His representative matters include representing Korea National Oil Corporation and its subsidiaries in an ICSID treaty arbitration against the Federal Republic of Nigeria; representing Vedanta Resources Limited in a UNCITRAL treaty arbitration against India concerning divestment obligations; representing Shell (formerly BG) and Reliance Industries Limited in multi-phased UNCITRAL arbitration proceedings against the Government of India relating to disputes exceeding US$5 billion; and successfully representing a Taiwanese company in a post-M&A ICC arbitration in the FMCG sector.

Amrutanshu has also worked as a disputes lawyer in New Delhi, focusing on commercial and constitutional law disputes before the Indian Supreme Court and the High Courts of Delhi and Bombay. He completed his undergraduate law degree as the overall topper with ten gold medals, and received a full scholarship from the British Council and Balliol College to complete his BCL at the University of Oxford, graduating with an overall distinction and the Law Faculty Prize for topping the Intellectual Property law paper. He is admitted as a Solicitor of England and Wales (2022), a Registered Foreign Lawyer in Singapore (2022) and an Advocate in India (2016), and speaks English and Hindi.