Khyati is a disputes lawyer who specialises in cross-border disputes and international arbitration. She has experience in cross-jurisdictional commercial disputes across a wide range of sectors, particularly in the Asia Pacific region. She has represented parties in proceedings under the rules of major arbitral institutions at all stages of the arbitral process. She also has prior experience in Singapore commercial litigation matters.
Khyati spent a number of years as a member of the Secretariat of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC). At SIAC, she administered and managed over 200 cases related to energy, international trade, construction and infrastructure, joint venture and shareholder disputes. She was responsible for the administration of arbitrations under various versions of the SIAC Rules and UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules involving applications to the SIAC Court relating to consolidation and/or joinder, jurisdictional objections, arbitrator challenges, emergency arbitrations, as well as the SIAC-SIMC Arb-Med-Arb protocol. Khyati was involved in the development and implementation of the SIAC Rules 2016, and participated extensively in establishing the institutional practice and procedure when the rules first came into force.
