Ishaan Madaan is a dual-qualified disputes lawyer whose practice spans complex litigation, international arbitration, investigations, and cross-border judgment and award enforcement. He represents clients in high-value and strategically sensitive matters across the life sciences, construction, technology, and digital assets sectors.
Ishaan has acted in arbitrations under ICC, ICDR, DIAC, and JAMS rules, as well as related federal and state court proceedings. His experience includes securing emergency relief, managing parallel litigations, arbitration strategies, preparing and examining key fact and expert witnesses, and developing briefing across a wide range of issues. He also actively maintains an enforcement practice, leading global asset-tracing exercises, post-judgment discovery, and multi-jurisdictional strategy for clients seeking to secure and preserve value.
His recent work includes helping secure a US$115 million ICC award in a life-sciences M&A dispute following a successful emergency arbitration; representing a Bitcoin-mining entity in a US$55 million JAMS arbitration and related federal litigation involving injunctions and preservation of valuable mining equipment; confirming foreign arbitral awards in US courts; and defending multinational pharmaceutical clients in complex commercial disputes. In addition, Ishaan routinely advises on alter-ego liability, information-gathering tools, and regulatory interfaces that influence dispute resolution outcomes.
Before joining DLA Piper, Ishaan practiced in India for eight years, appearing in over 100 matters and serving as an arbitrator appointed by the Delhi High Court. His background gives him a grounded perspective on multi-jurisdictional disputes and unique fluency in navigating US-India business and regulatory considerations.
Beyond client work, Ishaan contributes to thought leadership in the field. He founded Arbinsol, a platform convening academics and practitioners to discuss cutting-edge issues at the arbitration-insolvency intersection; serves as a Steering Committee member of CPR's Y-ADR program; regularly arbitrates at the FDI and Vis Moots; and has published with Kluwer Arbitration Blog and Wolters Kluwer.
Ishaan holds an LL.M. in International Arbitration from the University of Miami School of Law, where he was the first FDI Moot Scholar, earned multiple academic distinctions, and contributed research to an amicus brief in GE Energy v. Outokumpu, in which the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled consistent with the brief's position.
He is admitted in New York, the Seventh Circuit, the Northern District of Illinois, and in India.
