Dharshini Prasad is a partner and London Chair of the Firm's International Arbitration Practice Group. She is triple qualified to practice in Singapore, England and Wales and New York and regularly advises companies, Governments and Government entities on complex and high-stakes multi-jurisdictional disputes. Dharshini has acted as counsel in several billion dollar arbitrations in different industries, from energy and mining to technology, pharmaceuticals and private equity, and has represented clients in civil and common law disputes in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the Americas. Apart from her work as counsel, Dharshini maintains an active practice as arbitrator, sits on the LCIA Court and the ICC UK Arbitration & ADR Committee, and is a member of the Board of Editors for the AAA Dispute Resolution Journal. She also teaches seminars on energy and investor-State arbitration at Queen Mary University and has previously taught at New York University (Paris), the CIArb Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration in Oxford, and the London School of Economics, SIAC and Austrian arbitration academies. Prior to being appointed to the LCIA Court, Dharshini was involved in the work of SIAC for several years, including to help draft the 2016 Arbitration Rules and 2017 Investment Arbitration Rules.