MZM Legal LLP offers a comprehensive and integrated arbitration practice encompassing both domestic and international arbitration. The firm’s expertise spans the full spectrum of dispute resolution from pre-dispute advisory and clause drafting to tribunal representation, enforcement, and post-award execution.
In domestic arbitration, MZM Legal handles proceedings under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, representing clients before tribunals seated across India. The firm’s services include drafting and reviewing arbitration clauses, securing interim relief and injunctions, assisting with tribunal constitution, managing hearings and evidence, and enforcing domestic awards. The team also advises on the interplay between Indian court supervision and arbitral procedure, ensuring efficiency, enforceability, and compliance with Indian law.
In international arbitration, MZM Legal represents clients in commercial and investor–state disputes before leading arbitral institutions, including SIAC, LCIA, ICC, UNCITRAL, and CIETAC, as well as in ad-hoc arbitrations. The firm advises on bilateral investment treaty (BIT) claims, cross-border contractual conflicts, and complex multi-jurisdictional proceedings. MZM Legal’s practice extends to Singapore, London, Shanghai, Lithuania, and other key international arbitration seats, working seamlessly with foreign counsel and experts to ensure procedural precision and strategic alignment.
The firm also provides multilingual support, coordinates with technical and industry experts, and develops efficient procedural frameworks tailored to client objectives. With a focus on sector-specific arbitration including infrastructure, energy, technology, manufacturing, and financial services MZM Legal delivers cost-effective, timely, and commercially viable outcomes.
Whether in domestic tribunals or international institutions, MZM Legal LLP combines legal acumen, strategic foresight, and cross-border experience to provide clients with end-to-end arbitration solutions that ensure confidentiality, enforceability, and result-oriented resolution of disputes.
Key Services
Expertise in resolving disputes between foreign investors and sovereign states under bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and multilateral agreements.
Handling complex commercial disputes involving international contracts, trade agreements, and cross-border transactions.
Resolving conflicts arising from international joint ventures, including governance, profit-sharing, and exit strategies.
Customized strategies for ad-hoc proceedings.
- Advising on disputes involving multiple jurisdictions, foreign laws, and international procedural rules.
- Handling multi-jurisdictional commercial disputes
- Expertise in international laws and treaties.
- Securing urgent interim measures
- Emergency arbitrator proceedings.
- Assisting clients in enforcing domestic and foreign arbitral awards in India and globally under the New York Convention.
- Navigating recognition and execution challenges.
Providing arbitration support in multiple languages to cater to global clients and international proceedings.
Engaging technical and industry experts to support arbitration claims and defenses with credible evidence.
- Assistance in tribunal appointment
- Strategic case planning and procedural management.
Specialized arbitration services in sectors like energy, infrastructure, technology, and financial services. Infrastructure, energy, finance, technology, manufacturing.
Crafting arbitration strategies that align legal merit with commercial objectives, risk mitigation, and cost efficiency.
Arbitration clauses and dispute resolution frameworks. Pre-dispute risk assessment and strategy.
Negotiation and settlement post-award. Legal support for compliance and recovery.
- Discreet resolution of sensitive commercial matters
- Business-aligned legal strategies.
Practice Areas
MZM is a jewel in the Indian Crown; exceptionally able, high caliber lawyers and support staff who respond on 24/7 basis. They work to a very high standard in terms of work output and are accessible. The team is in-depth and the Partners are immensely responsive. This is our “go-to firm” for all white-coller/dispute resolution needs.
-the Legal 500
