Punam
Shah
Associate
Commercial Litigation
+44 (0)20 7822 8010
Punam acts for claimants and defendants on a broad spectrum of high-value and multi-jurisdictional commercial disputes. She has extensive experience of acting in trials and appeals, involving multiple parties, and alternative dispute resolution procedures, such as mediation.
Expertise
Punam advises commercial clients, including corporates, financial institutions, institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds, insolvency practitioners, and high net worth individuals, on complex disputes.
Her practice spans a wide range of commercial litigation and contentious insolvency matters, such as contractual disputes, shareholder and partnership conflicts, asset recovery proceedings, professional negligence claims, fraud-related litigation, and commercial aviation disputes.
Punam regularly acts on proceedings before the High Court, Court of Appeal, and the Privy Council, and in LCIA and ICC arbitrations. Her experience includes dealing with jurisdictional challenges and strike-out and security for costs applications.
Punam has worked on multi-party cases (including group litigation) and funded litigation. She has also successfully assisted clients through mediation and other settlement processes, securing pragmatic and commercial outcomes.
Publications and media
- High Court considers a petitioner’s standing: a threshold battlefield in unfair prejudice petitions (Stewarts, July 2026)
- What is the corporate disputes outlook for shareholders, directors and investors in 2026? (Stewarts, January 2026)
Experience
- Acting on behalf of a Guernsey liquidator to recover multimillion-pound loans
- Acting on behalf of the majority shareholders in a s.994 unfair prejudice petition
- Acting for the receivers of a BVI company pursuing fraud claims in excess of £50 million against related parties
- Acting for a Chinese conglomerate in a claim for fraudulent misrepresentation and breach of contract arising from the purchase of a Chilean salmon farming business, which was ultimately stayed following a contested jurisdiction challenge
- Acting for a group of 350 individuals in respect of claims arising out of their investments in film schemes promoted and operated by the Ingenious group of companies.
Recognition
Legal 500 recognises Punam as an “outstanding associate”. She makes a “great team and is lovely to work with”.
Accreditations and memberships
JLSLA Champion (Junior London Solicitors Litigation Association)
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