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Mythili Shrivastav

Associate

Mythili advises on commercial litigation and cross-border disputes, with experience before the DIFC Courts, Dubai Courts, and arbitral tribunals.

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Mythili Shrivastav, Associate at SK Legal

Overview

She acts on complex contractual, real estate, and financial disputes, frequently involving jurisdictional challenges, parallel proceedings, and cross-border enforcement strategy. She has worked on disputes with cumulative exposure exceeding AED 150m and regularly coordinates with international counsel to ensure strategic alignment across multiple forums.

Her practice includes significant experience in DIFC proceedings, encompassing pleadings, procedural applications and enforcement-focused remedies. She also advises on cross-border transactional and regulatory matters, including corporate structuring, compliance and risk allocation.

Her background in economics informs a commercially astute approach to disputes, enabling her to assess legal strategy through the lens of financial exposure and business objectives.

Recent experience

  • Acted for the Claimant in a $2.8m DIFC Courts dispute concerning franchise rights and contractual payment breaches; successfully overcame jurisdictional challenges and secured favourable costs orders. Led post-pleadings enforcement strategy, including Unless Order and Default Judgment applications under the RDC.
  • Acted on post-judgment execution in a UAE real estate dispute exceeding AED 30m, involving rescission-based refund claims against a developer, with focus on asset tracing, affiliated offshore entities and enforcement strategy before the Dubai Execution Court.
  • Advised on Appellate and Cassation strategy in a Dubai Courts commercial dispute exceeding AED 90m, involving unlawful brokerage and margin trading activities under UAE regulatory framework and Civil Transactions Law.
  • Advised an FSRA-authorised Category 3 investment firm on regulatory perimeter issues and structuring considerations relating to a private asset acquisition strategy.
  • Advised on a cybercrime matter involving alleged digital misappropriation of funds, analysing transaction trails and communications, assessing exposure under applicable cybercrime law.
  • Acted on a cross-border commodity dispute involving recovery of advance payments for non-delivery, addressing repudiatory breach, failure of consideration and contractual interest. Further advised on DIFC v. Dubai jurisdiction and pre-litigation enforcement strategy.

Qualifications & admissions

  • B.A (Economics), Symbiosis College of Arts & Commerce, Pune
  • LL.B., ILS Law College, Pune
  • Enrolled with the Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa
  • Part I Registered – DIFC Courts
  • Registered – ADGM Courts
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