Preetam Surana

Partner – Dispute Resolution & Head – Academic Initiatives

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About Him

A Commerce (Honors) graduate from Delhi University, with a Diploma in Computer Science from NIIT, he went on to do his LL. B from KSLU, Bangalore.
 
He brings with him an experience of more than 22 years in leadership roles in various industries, before he started his stint in the law firm.
 
His varied industry experiences saw him as an entrepreneur in chemical manufacturing for 4 years. Thereafter, he was a COO for a Garment Export House for 6 years where he led a cross-functional team both in-house & outsourced orders and working with designers & buyers with top labels across continents. He was involved in setting up an Indo-Korean Joint Venture as its COO for 4 years. Subsequently he was in commodity trading for 8 years both domestic & overseas.
 

Practice areas

Strategy, Negotiation, Mediation, Project management, Ideation, Technology implementation, Project studies*, Infrastructure financing, Financial advisory, Investment and Estate plan, Project Risk mitigation & Crisis management, Performance & Quality management, Global sourcing, leading cross functional teams, Liaison, Operations Audit.

*He did an elaborate project study & presented a comprehensive paper on Solar Project Financing for CII.

In the law firm his expertise spans practice areas such as Dispute Resolution, Corporate Advisory Services, Technology (developed a MIS ) & Academic Initiatives at the firm.

Credentials / Affiliations

Has been part of an ASSOCHAM delegation overseas besides being part of Committees with Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Head of Finance Forum, Working Group on Infrastructure Finance, Member of Task Force on International Linkages, Family Business Sub-Committee & Madras Chamber of Commerce -MSME Committee.

Academic Initiatives

As Head of the firm’s Academic Initiatives which conducts the world’s largest Moot Court Competition, he has conceptualized and developed the world’s first proprietary Moot administrative software in 2013 for moot court administration. He introduced the country’s first ever Moot in the North-east sector. He has given lectures in academic institutions and successfully administered the world’s most prestigious Jessup International Law Moot & the India Rounds of the world’s largest moot on International   Environmental law –  Stetson India rounds. Proposes to administer the Stetson SAARC rounds during the academic year 2023-24.