MCIA and Jus Mundi Sign Exclusive Partnership to Promote Global Access to Indian Arbitration

Press Release

Mumbai/Paris, 18 September 2025

The Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration (MCIA) and Jus Mundi have entered into an exclusive digital partnership to support greater access to Indian arbitration materials. The collaboration aims to harness technology to promote transparency and expand global access to arbitration resources from India. The partnership was signed in Mumbai during India ADR Week.

Under the partnership, MCIA will share a selection of documents from its commercial and investment arbitrations, including international and domestic awards, procedural decisions, summaries, and guidance publications. These materials will be made freely available on Jus Mundi’s open-access legal research platform, with Jus Mundi serving as MCIA’s exclusive digital partner for publication of these materials on legal research platforms.

In collaboration with MCIA, Jus Mundi will use its AI-powered tools and arbitration expertise to pseudonymize and redact the documents as needed to ensure confidentiality and compliance with MCIA’s arbitration rules and international best practices.

Madhukeshwar Desai, Founder and CEO of MCIA, stated:

“MCIA has always championed technology and innovation in arbitration. Our collaboration with Jus Mundi reflects our commitment to transparency and accessibility, ensuring that Indian arbitration materials are available to practitioners and stakeholders around the world.”

Jean-Rémi de Maistre, CEO and Co-Founder of Jus Mundi, stated:

“We are proud to collaborate with MCIA—an important and dynamic arbitral institution in the region—to make arbitration materials from India more visible and accessible to the world. This partnership represents another step forward in our mission to support the global legal community through open access and legal tech innovation.”

About MCIA

The Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration (MCIA) was founded in 2016 as a joint effort between the Indian and international legal communities. MCIA aim’s to bring international best practices to arbitration in India, by administering disputes in a cost efficient, time bound and transparent manner. MCIA published its new Rules in 2025, and administers matter through its headquarters and additional offices in New Delhi and Bengaluru.  

About Jus Mundi

Founded in 2019,  Jus Mundi is a legal tech and “mission-led company” powering global justice through artificial intelligence. With offices in Paris, New York, London, and Singapore, it serves 150,000 users from law firms, companies, governments, and universities in more than 100 countries. Through its advanced AI technology, Jus Mundi offers global legal intelligence, data-driven arbitration professional selection, and business development services.   

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