Fieldfisher

Dispute Resolution

Partner

Shiv grew up in a family of businesspeople. He has the privilege, through his work, of supporting businesspeople with the most important opportunities and risks that they and their businesses face.

Shiv's clients have included, FTSE100, CAC40 and Fortune 500 companies, Tier 1 banks, Formula 1 teams, luxury brands, private equity firms, Fintechs, entrepreneurs, CEOs, celebrities, National Governing Bodies and nation-states.

Shiv started his career as a self-employed barrister. Through a combination of luck and design, his career has provided him unique experience and perspective both as trial and appellate counsel, a litigator and partner in a boutique law firm and as an in-house compliance leader within a listed multinational company.

Shiv's work spans crisis management, regulatory enforcement actions, litigation, sensitive cross border internal investigations and the management of risk, including through the implementation and evolution of corporate compliance programmes.

His broad experience and expertise assists him to see and consider the range of potential angles on a given situation from the very outset - when the need for good decision-making is critical.

Shiv's sectoral experience spans energy and natural resources, financial services, retail and consumer, transport and infrastructure, telecoms and sport. He has advised on matters relating to over twenty jurisdictions and have on-the-ground experience in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, North America and the Caribbean.

Shiv has acted as an expert witness on English law (including in particular the Bribery Act 2010) and act in an outsourced General Counsel capacity for HNW individuals and their businesses.

Clients seek Shiv out not only for clear, strategic and actionable legal advice but also for the range of experience and connections that I can bring to bear for their commercial benefit and reputational protection. He is often called upon to ‘quarterback’ and manage multi-disciplinary teams - working with trusted experts, technologists, due diligence, security and intelligence professionals and PR and communications specialists to achieve efficient and creative solutions and impact for his clients.

Shiv is an investor in and advisor to a number of start-ups. Prior to his career at the Bar, he worked in Westminster for a former member of the Cabinet and was a founding Board Member of an organisation which seeks to improve ties between the UK and India. He has represented the University of Cambridge and the Bar of England & Wales at cricket.

Shiv sits on the Board of Middlesex County Cricket Club as an observer. He was previously elected to the Bar Council and served as a magistrate in my local community. He acts as mentor for the Social Mobility Foundation, has served as a governor of an OFSTED ‘outstanding’ rated school and am an ambassador to Young Enterprise. He is a member of the founders circle of the British Asian Trust, sit on the advisory board of one of Europe’s largest contemporary art fairs and serve as a trustee of Bat for a Chance.