Lomesh Kiran Nidumuri

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Lomesh has two decades of experience in advising clients in broad range of civil and business/commercial disputes, cross border disputes, domestic and international arbitrations. In many disputes, he has acted as a lead counsel conducting trial and arguments before courts and arbitral tribunals. Over the years, he has also acted for clients in a variety of civil and commercial disputes including technology related disputes, shareholder disputes, projects, and construction, employment, intellectual property rights, restructuring and corporate insolvency and white-collar crimes (particularly money laundering).

Lomesh is a registered foreign lawyer with the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC) and a qualified Specialist Mediator with Singapore International Mediation Centre (SIMC). He is a member of the Reserve Panel of Arbitrators at Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC). He was part of the Committee of the Young Singapore International Arbitration Centre (YSIAC) for the tenure 2019-2021 and for the renewed term 2021-2023. He was also part of the Steering Committee of the International Arbitration and Mediation Centre (IAMC) for the term 2022-2024.

Lomesh has been consistently ranked as a leading lawyer by various publications. He is also part of forums that aim to contribute to the development of ADR in the country. He has contributed to several publications and is frequently invited to speak at ADR and industry events.  

He is actively involved in various social projects through the Rotary Club of Bangalore and passionate about community service and mentoring the youth. Lomesh is a keen sports enthusiast. He was formerly co-owner of the ‘KGF Wolves’ team in the Grand Prix Badminton League (GPBL), which won the inaugural edition of the GPBL in August 2022.

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• Representing a leading crypto currency company in criminal proceedings initiated by the Enforcement Directorate for money laundering before the authorities and the courts.
• Advising some shareholders of Think and Learn Private Limited (Byju) in litigations before the National Company Law Tribunal, Bengaluru and the SIAC.
• Represented ARCIL in proceedings before the National Company Law Tribunal, Bengaluru, against Manyata Developers, for claims more than INR 1200 Crores.
• Represented Wipro Limited in its litigation against a former CFO for breach of certain clauses in the agreement by joining a competitor.
• Represented Bitsport Private Limited before the Karnataka High Court challenging the circulars of the Badminton Association of India restricting badminton players from participating in private tournaments on the ground that it violates their constitutional rights.
• Represented a leading technology company in arbitration proceedings against the erstwhile shareholders of a company it acquired, for damages on account of fraud and misrepresentation in the accounts at the time of acquisition.
• Representing a leading builder in defamation proceedings against certain persons before the Civil Courts, Bangalore.
• Representing a leading builder before a three-member tribunal in disputes arising from a joint development agreement with respect to a prime property in Bangalore.
• Representing Axis Bank in proceedings against a defaulter before the Debt Recovery Tribunal and the Karnataka High Court for claims in excess of INR 150 Crores.
• Representing a leading hospital group in litigation against the Bureau of Civil Aviation with respect to wrongful cancellation of permission to operate from the airport premises.

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• ‘Band 1’ Lawyer for Chambers and Partners, 2022-2024.
• ‘Top 15 Disputes Lawyers in Asia’, Asian Legal Business (ALB) 2022.
• ‘Forty Under Forty’ lawyers in the Asia-Pacific region, Asian Legal Business 2017. ALB recognizes forty outstanding professionals in the Asia-Pacific region who are under the age of forty and have worked on significant deals and disputes in the past year and earned accolades from their peers and clients.
• ‘Distinguished Practioner’ for Dispute Resolution, Asia Law Profiles 2024.
• ‘Disputes Star’ in the categories of international arbitration and commercial transactions, respectively, Benchmark Litigation 2020-2024.
• ‘Recommended Lawyer’ for Dispute Resolution, Litigation, and Intellectual Property disputes, Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2021-2024.
• ‘Up and Coming’ lawyer for litigation and arbitration disputes, Chambers and Partners Asia Pacific 2021.
• ‘Notable Practitioner’ for Dispute Resolution, Asia Law Profiles 2017-2023.

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• Karnataka State Bar Council.
• Fellow – Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb)

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