Sahana Jayakumar joined Crown Office Chambers in 2021 and has a practice encompassing construction, corporate and personal insolvency, property damage and commercial litigation and arbitration. Sahana has experience of regular County Court and High Court advocacy and is comfortable acting as sole counsel and being led on complex matters.

Sahana has experience of advising on jurisdictional issues and working on matters with a cross-border element, both in litigation and international arbitration disputes. She has worked in the Dubai International Finance Centre and as a stagiaire in the International Arbitration department of an international law firm in Paris, and has rights of audience in the Astana International Finance Centre Courts in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. She is currently working towards an LLM in International Dispute Resolution awarded by the School of International Arbitration at Queen Mary University, London.

Fluent French Basic Spanish, Hindi and Kannada

COMBAR LCLCBA PBA R3 Association of Business Recovery Professionals

LLM International Dispute Resolution, Queen Mary University of London (ongoing) BA (Hons) Law with French Law, Christ Church, University of Oxford. Certificat Supérieur de Droit Français et Européen (ERASMUS Scholar), Université Paris II (Panthéon-Assas) BPTC, BPP University Norman Tapp Memorial Prize, Grays Inn Internship Award, Grays Inn Pegasus Scholarship, Inner Temple Jonathan Brock QC Memorial Prize, Runner-up, LCLBA – “Forum non conveniens: Is Spiliada still fit for purpose or holed below the water-line?” International Professional and Legal Development Grant, Bar Council Rights of Audience in the Astana International Finance Centre Court, Kazakhstan