Season 3: Episode 22 - International Arbitration Managing Partner - Baiju Vasani

Published: Dec. 28, 2020, 4 a.m.

This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Rob Hanna was joined by Baiju Vasani.

Baiju is currently an international arbitration lawyer at Ivanyan & Partners, based in London and Moscow. In this deeply insightful episode, he shares his story and perspectives on this fascinating and consequential area of the law.

Having graduated from Oxford, he's worked for the likes of Fulbright & Jarwoski, Crowell & Moring and Jones Day, practicing in both the UK and the US. In the episode he discusses more about his present and past roles, going over some of his most memorable cases and describing his current responsibilities (which varies from choosing furniture for the new office to arbitrating major geopolitical asset disputes). 

Also covered is:

  • His arbitration strategy, and why it can be likened to chess
  • His work supporting arbitration operations in East Africa
  • Why he understands the millennial hesitancy about becoming a partner 

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