Poonam Melwani KC is Head of Quadrant Chambers. She is a commercial silk who practises across the full spectrum of commercial, insurance, energy and shipping law, providing advisory and advocacy services. Poonam’s clients want her for their “difficult cases” where innovative thinking and oversight of a large team, complex issues and multi-strands are necessary. Praised as “clever, imaginative and user-friendly … diligent and fights very hard for her clients.” Poonam has been ranked as a ‘Leading Silk’ over many years by the Legal Directories and is shortlisted for Shipping, Commodities & Aviation Silk of the Year 2023 at the Legal 500 Bar Awards. She was also shortlisted for Shipping Silk of the Year at the Chambers & Partners UK Bar Awards 2020. She represents clients in a wide variety of jurisdictions and arbitral regimes including ICC, LCIA, LMAA and ad hoc, as well as English High Court Litigation, mainly in the Commercial Court and the Appellate Courts.
Qualified 1990, Inner Temple.
COMBAR, Supporting Member LMAA
Wycombe Abbey; Sydney Sussex College, Cambridge (1988 BA; 1994 MA).
Being with the children.