About Saif Mahmood
Dr Saif Mahmood is an Advocate of the Supreme Court of India and an International lawyer, strategy advisor and legal scholar with more than two decades of a rich and diverse experience. He is Chief Legal Counsel with the London-based Zone Capital Advisors and Joint Managing Partner with the cross jurisdictional Legal and Business Consultancy CMI & Co. In the year 2000, he founded the full service Indian law firm Amicus Juris.
Holding a doctorate in law with specialization in comparative legal systems and a prestigious United Nations Certification in Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR), he frequently appears before various Indian Courts and international and domestic arbitral tribunals. He has handled cases, alongside barristers and lawyers, in the High Court of Justice of England and Wales and the Dubai courts. A Visiting Scholar in Law at the University of Oxford (2022) and a well-known author and public speaker, he has had the rare honour of being cited by the Supreme Court of India. He is also Visiting Fellow in Law at Asia’s largest private University, Amity University, India.
Saif has successfully handled a wide variety of legal issues, rendering cutting-edge legal advice to clients for the quickest possible resolution of their disputes. His expertise includes Corporate and Commercial disputes, International Commercial Contracts, Aviation, Construction, Infrastructure, Energy, Power & Projects, Real Estate & Property, Media & Entertainment, Constitutional and Public Law, and litigation involving complex issues of interpretation of statutes and contracts – subjects on which he has handled a wide variety of cases, advised major clients, trained senior professionals, lectured law students and spoken at numerous conferences and seminars the world over. He has also been consulted on important issues of family laws and high-profile succession and estate matters relating to Indians.
A niche area that he consults in is Technology Innovation, Investments, Business Development and cross-border commercial and contractual disputes in the India-UK-UAE corridor. He has a deep understanding of not just law and business but also of the Indo-UK-UAE cultural landscape, that helps him assist clients across these countries and build ecosystems for those who are motivated to enter any of these markets. Having travelled extensively, he thinks of the world as a global village and advocates cross-border pollination in trade and building sustainable eco-systems for the tech and legal communities. He is an Advisor to the well-known thinktank Tech India Advocates, based in the UK.
Saif is a leading South Asian name in the field of Urdu poetry, literature and its cultural heritage. His bestselling book on the Urdu poets of Mughal Delhi, ‘Beloved Delhi: A Mughal City and Her Greatest Poets’ is widely recognised as an authoritative work on the subject. A highly sought-after speaker at Literature Festivals all over the world, he has been on dozens of panels with the most renowned artists, poets, writers and scholars of our times. He advises several literary and cultural organizations globally and his work appears regularly in periodicals and on news websites.
