Ritika Bharti

Ritika Bharti is an Associate at A&O Shearman in Singapore, focusing on Arbitration and Mediation. Her practice focuses on international arbitration, and she is qualified to practise law in India and holds an LLM in International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution from the National University of Singapore.

She has worked in arbitrations under major arbitration rules such as ICC, SIAC, ICSID and UNCITRAL, as well as on arbitration-related litigation. The matters she has worked on span sectors including shareholders’ disputes, construction, energy, telecommunications, real estate, technology, private equity and finance.

Her representative matters include advising a major investor in commercial real estate on a US$160 million SIAC arbitration over the management of a joint venture comprising multiple malls in India; representing the Government of a Southeast Asian State in the defence of an investment treaty arbitration brought by a Korean investor; acting for a global technology corporation as claimant in an ICSID arbitration against the Kingdom of Sweden (ICSID Case No. ARB/22/2); and advising Shell (formerly BG) and Reliance on multi-phased UNCITRAL arbitration proceedings against the Government of India relating to disputes exceeding US$5 billion arising out of two production sharing contracts.

Prior to joining the firm, Ritika was an associate at a boutique disputes law firm based in India, focusing on commercial arbitration (domestic and international) and litigation, and has also worked as a legal consultant at an arbitration institution based in India. She volunteers with It’s Raining Raincoats in Singapore. She holds a BBA LL.B. (Hons) from Christ University, Bengaluru (2020), and an LL.M. in International Arbitration & Dispute Resolution from the National University of Singapore (2023). She was admitted in India in 2020 and speaks English and Hindi.