Viren MascarenhasFounding Partner at Mascarenhas Law (United States)Speaker
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Viren is the founding partner of Mascarenhas Law PLLC. He is based in New York, where he advises and represents clients in commercial, construction, and investment arbitration; public international law; and business and human rights. He is also a Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School, where he teaches international arbitration.
He has over two decades of experience acting as counsel in domestic and international arbitration proceedings under the major institutional arbitral rules as well as ad hoc arbitral rules in a broad range of industries, including chemicals, energy (LNG, oil, nuclear, electricity, power, renewables), mining and metals, hospitality, life sciences, and luxury goods. He also has experience in private equity and M&A disputes arising under share purchase, joint venture, shareholder, and partnership agreements. Viren’s investment arbitration and commercial arbitration experience includes representing Turkey in five investment arbitrations. He has also represented energy and mining companies in investment treaty and commercial claims against Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bolivia, Ecuador, India, Italy, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, the Philippines, the Russian Federation, Timor-Leste, Uruguay and Venezuela.
Additionally, he has represented owners and contractors in construction arbitration disputes, especially concerning energy infrastructure projects. And he has substantial experience in US litigation relating to arbitration, including discovery, set-aside/annulment applications, and enforcement of awards, including for and against foreign sovereigns.
He has been recognized for his international arbitration work by Chambers USA and Global, Legal 500, Who's Who Legal: Arbitration; Lawdragon Global Litigation 500; Latinvex, Euromoney Legal Media Awards; and Law360. He has also been recognized for his accomplishments as a lawyer by the US National South Asian Bar Association, the New York Law Journal, Crain's New York Business, and the American Bar Association.