Deepti has been practicing as an Advocate at the commercial bar of the Bombay High Court since 2007.  She has a broad commercial law practice in India, specializing in areas such as commercial litigation and arbitration, bankruptcy proceedings, partnership disputes, real estate and land matters, and estate and succession disputes.  She has been appointed as an Arbitrator in over 30 cases by the Bombay High Court and has expertise in conducting civil trials before both courts and arbitration tribunals.
International arbitration, both commercial and investment, has long been a subject of her interest. Her research at the Faculty of Law, Queen’s University, focuses on insolvent sovereigns within the international arbitration framework, analyzed through the critical perspective of the Third World Approach to International Law (TWAIL).  Her other research interests encompass corporate bankruptcy, conflict of laws, comparative law, and civil procedure.

Recipient of the H.R. Stuart Ryan Fellowship in Law, Law Graduate Research Fellowship & Queen’s Graduate Award

Thesis: Sovereigns in the Crossfire, the Good, the Bad and the Insolvent Sovereign in the International Arbitration Framework
Supervisor: Dr. Joshua Karton