Ramakrishnan Virorghavan sc
About introduction notable cases qualifications publications appointments memberships areas of expertise arbitration banking & finance civil commercial commercial chancery company & partnership contract corporate corporate insolvency insurance mediation property , 33 Bedford Row
Work Department
Position
Ram is a senior counsel in India and a barrister in England and Wales. He has more than 33 years of experience in commercial litigation and has appeared before the Supreme Court of India, a large number of High Courts and tribunals in India.
He has appeared before the Company Courts and Company Law Tribunals in mergers, amalgamations and de-mergers, reorganisations relating to more than 300 companies. He regularly advises on issues of Indian corporate law and corporate restructuring and insolvency.
He has appeared in challenges to the constitutionality of Indian statutes and subordinate legislation.
He has appeared in a large number of commercial arbitrations, India seated and international including an international commercial arbitration seated at The Hague. He has also appeared in the superior courts in arbitration related litigation such as challenge to arbitration awards, referral to arbitration and removal of arbitrators.
Ram accepts instructions for advice on Indian law, appearance in Indian courts and in international commercial arbitrations especially those seated in South Asia.
Ram was called to the Bar of India in 1985 and called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2013. He was appointed senior counsel in India in 2017.
Education
LLM (International Commercial Law and Practice) (Edinburgh)
LLB (Bangalore); BCom (Madras)
Post graduate Diploma in Alternative Disputes Resolution (NALSAR University, Hyderabad)
Diploma in International Arbitration (Charted Institute of Arbitrators)
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Arbitration)