Zara Shafruddin is an experienced international arbitration practitioner and litigator.  Zara has extensive experience advising and representing companies and State-owned entities in international commercial and investment treaty arbitrations under all major arbitration rules (including ICC, SIAC, HKIAC, LCIA, ICSID, and UNCITRAL).  Zara helps clients solve problems and navigate complex commercial disputes across all business sectors, with a particular focus on oil and gas, energy and resources, construction, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, joint venture, shareholder and post-M&A disputes. She regularly provides strategic advice and coordination on complex multi-jurisdictional disputes.

Zara also advises on arbitration related court proceedings including jurisdictional challenges, set aside applications and enforcement proceedings.

In addition to her professional duties, Zara has authored numerous publications in peer-review journals and contributed to the drafting of the seminal textbook on SIAC arbitration, ‘A Guide to the SIAC Arbitration Rules’, published by Oxford University Press (2014).  She is a member of the YSIAC Council and the Steering Committee of ACICA45.

Zara is triple qualified in New York, England & Wales, and New South Wales (Australia).  She holds several law degrees including an LLM from Columbia University in New York and LLB/BCom from Griffith University in Brisbane, where she focused on international law and dispute resolution.