Tara Panicker
Tara Panicker is a newly qualified solicitor with over five years of experience in commercial litigation, international arbitration, and corporate advisory work. She is currently a paralegal in the International Construction team at Howard Kennedy LLP, where she works on high-value disputes arising from complex infrastructure and construction projects across multiple jurisdictions, including proceedings before the LCIA, ICC, SIAC, and the High Courts of England and Wales.
Her career includes assisting on a £3 billion asset recovery claim in the English High Court, preparing a £65 million commercial dispute for trial, and supporting a high-profile defamation case before the Court of Appeal. She has also worked on a £6 million fraud and asset recovery claim involving a bitcoin mining scam, and contributed to precedent-setting litigation in the cryptocurrency space.
Prior to joining Howard Kennedy, Tara worked at a global dispute resolution practice specialising in litigation and corporate matters, an American multinational law firm focusing on life sciences and healthcare regulation, and a French multinational bank, primarily working on delivering regulatory policies and compliance.
As a legal writer, she has authored content for LexisNexis UK on the legal implications of cryptocurrency and maintains a widely used resource on global FIDIC cases. She has also published commentary in the FT Adviser on mortgage prisoner litigation.