Kishan Chandarana

Group General Counsel at Marcura

Kishan Chandarana, FRSA, is an accomplished legal professional with extensive experience in various high-profile roles. Currently serving as Group General Counsel at Marcura since July 2025, Kishan oversees legal matters in a leading maritime technology firm that supports a significant portion of global commodity trade. Prior to this, Kishan held the position of Head of Legal at the London Metal Exchange from May 2014 to June 2025, where responsibilities included managing a growing legal team and navigating complex litigation issues. Previous roles include Deputy Head of Legal at Barclays during a transformative period for the bank, as well as positions at SunGard and Clifford Chance LLP. Kishan's educational background includes a Bachelor of Laws from the School of Oriental and African Studies and a Legal Practice Course from BPP Law School.

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Marcura

Marcura is the company behind several of the leading solutions and brands that are streamlining processes in the maritime industry. Our 8 solutions include: DA-Desk, PortLog, and MarTrust. For the last 21 years, we’ve been developing a series of innovative software solutions and platforms that have been digitally transforming our part of the massive maritime market. We’re now nearly 800 people, based in multiple countries, who all operate with an “our customers come first” philosophy. We work closely with our global customers and partners to develop innovative solutions to everyday industry challenges, and together raise standards along the way. Founded in 2001 on the principles of independence and transparency, we are headquartered in Dubai, but are fully global in everything we do. We have 8 primary solutions including: DA-Desk: the best in class disbursement accounts software, including a payments system, which comes with compliance built-in as standard MarTrust: a "built specially for marine" payments platform for crew, Masters and suppliers. Today, we have over 650 customers, making over $10bn of payments on behalf of customers every year, and employ nearly 800 team members – all committed to supporting the front-line of the maritime industry. United in our vision to support maritime professionals in being the best at what they do, Marcura is pioneering new ways to transform compliance, transparency and efficiency in shipping. Building value through standardisation, data-driven decision making and integration of new technologies, Marcura is driving the era of digitisation across the seas. We'd love to talk with you about how we can help on your digitisation journey. For more information, and to request a demo of any of our products, please visit www.marcura.com Marcura's network is fully global.


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