Ganesh Chandru

Ganesh Chandru is a Senior Partner at Kochhar & Co. in Chennai and New Delhi, specializing in international and domestic arbitration and commercial litigation. He is admitted to practice in India, England & Wales and Singapore, and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators.

He was appointed by the Government of India as a Part-time Member of the India International Arbitration Centre (2022–2025), which has been declared by statute as an institution of national importance, and serves as a Director of the India Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London. Prior to relocating to India in 2015, he spent more than 16 years in Singapore, including as Counsel & Assistant Registrar of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), where he supervised the administration of about 500 arbitrations and pioneered SIAC's initiatives in India.

He has acted in arbitrations under the rules of SIAC, ICC, LCIA, SCMA and UNCITRAL, and has represented parties in disputes across infrastructure, construction, oil and gas, power, telecom and IT sectors. He is recognised in Lexology Index 2025, Who's Who Legal Arbitration 2024, the Forbes Legal Power List, and has been ranked by Asian Legal Business as one of India's "Super 50 Lawyers".

He holds an LL.B from Madras Law College, an LL.M from the University of Madras, and an LL.M from the National University of Singapore, where he was awarded the NUS Research Scholarship. He is a panel arbitrator at the SIAC, the Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC), the Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration, and other leading arbitral institutions.