Sherina Petit is a dispute resolution partner at Norton Rose Fulbright and heads the firm’s India practice.

She specialises in international arbitration, litigation and ADR across a broad range of industries representing clients across the globe in numerous ad hoc and institutional arbitrations. In addition, Sherina regularly sits as an arbitrator in international arbitrations, is a published writer and speaker on international arbitration and is an expert on India-related matters.

Sherina is on the LCIA Board of Directors, the LCIA Remuneration Committee, the Chair of the EFILA board, the ICC Indian Arbitration Group, the SIAC Users Council and the SIAC Users Council’s Regional/National Committee for the United Kingdom.

Ranked in several legal directories, including Chambers & Partners and Legal 500, Sherina recently won the Client Choice Awards 2017 for the UK in the Arbitration & ADR category (as voted for by corporate counsel) and is featured in the Who’s Who Future Leaders in Arbitration (2017). She was featured in the Legal Business Disputes Yearbook as one of “the next generation of partners setting the disputes agenda”, in Legal Week’s 2016 feature, “Rising stars: the new generation of litigators making their mark” and in Corporate Vision’s “Ones to Watch”.

Sherina joined Norton Rose Fulbright in January 2009 from Shearman & Sterling where she spent over six years as an associate in the London office. In 2008, she was seconded to the legal department of the Tata Group and the Indian Hotels Group (Taj Hotels) in Mumbai, India. Sherina has a Master of Laws degree from King’s College, London and qualified as a solicitor of England and Wales in 2002 whilst working at Linklaters in London. Prior to that she qualified as an Advocate on the Rolls of the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa in 1999 whilst working at a leading law firm in Mumbai.
Specialties: International arbitration, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Litigation, Regulatory Investigations.