Shivani Poddar

Shivani Poddar is a litigation partner with over a decade of experience, focusing on a broad range of complex and general commercial, real estate, and employment disputes in litigation, arbitration, and mediation. Shivani counsels clients in all phases of the dispute, taking into account the client’s business goals, often obtaining favorable results pre-litigation. Shivani’s clients include institutional investors, hedge funds, real estate companies, consumer goods companies, fin-tech firms, and start-ups.

Shivani was was named to the Crain's New York Business 2021 listing of 40 Under Forty, a recognition honoring accomplished New York City–based business professionals under 40 years of age. She was also recognized by the New York Law Journal as a Rising Star for 2020, an accolade given to a handful of New York City’s most promising lawyers under 40, whose accomplishments have contributed notably to the law and the legal community. She was also ranked in New York Super Lawyers for 2020. In 2011 Shivani received the New York Legal Services Pro Bono Recognition Award for her commitment to pro bono work.

Shivani is a driver of diversity and inclusion and involved in numerous organizations and programs designed to increase diversity in the legal field. In 2020, Shivani was selected as a member of the 2020 class of Fellows by the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (“LCLD”).