Mohammed Shameer

Mohammed Shameer is a Partner – Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Practice, White-Collar Crime at Trilegal, focusing on Arbitration and Mediation. His wide experience in dispute resolution extends to commercial litigation, arbitration, real estate litigation, labour and employment disputes and criminal law.

As an experienced arguing counsel, he regularly appears before various fora and provides end-to-end representation and advice to clients in contentious situations. He has successfully defended and prosecuted arbitrations concerning breach and enforcement of contracts, construction disputes relating to large infrastructure and public utility projects, real estate disputes and employment disputes.

He has achieved favourable outcomes for numerous clients in white-collar disputes, including securing orders for property release, unfreezing bank accounts, granting bail, and quashing First Information Reports and Charge Sheets. He regularly advises corporate clients in criminal investigations and assists in prosecuting and defending criminal complaints involving cybercrimes, data or IP theft, and economic offences.

His representative matters include representing Odisha Power Generation Corporation Ltd in an arbitration dispute concerning construction of a railway line by Larsen & Toubro, representing Automattic INC. in a defamation and IT Act claim, and representing Piramal Capital and Housing Finance Ltd in litigations concerning the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code. He is recognised as a ‘Recommended / Key Lawyer’ in White-Collar Crime practice by The Legal 500 (2026). He holds a degree from Christ College of Law and is admitted to the Karnataka State Bar Council.