Personal bio
Philip Punwar is an English qualified legal practitioner with more than twenty-five years’ arbitration experience. He has been resident in Dubai since 2005. Philip has represented clients before most major arbitral institutions, as well as in ad hoc proceedings. His recent arbitral engagements have concerned real-estate Mega Projects in the Gulf, investment treaty claims arising out of the MENA and South Asia regions, aircraft charter agreements, concession agreements in the water sector and technology disputes in the finance and healthcare sectors. Philip Punwar has been a member of Outer Temple Chambers since October 2022. Prior to returning to independent practice as a Barrister, he was a Partner in the International Disputes Group at Baker Botts LLP (2013-2022) and the International Arbitration Group at Fulbright & Jaworski LLP/Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP (2009-2013).