Poonam Sharma Baloni heads Lex Outsourcing.

Poonam Sharma Baloni is a legal researcher and a global market analyst specialising on crew and bunker claims within shipping advising crew members for recovery of unpaid crew claims or wages, unpaid master's wages, bunker suppliers on unpaid dues and commercial litigation. She works alongside with Dr. Shrikant Hathi and Ms. Binita Hathi. She advises on entire gamut of law for shipping industry. She also specialises in corporate, projects and infrastructure; marine insurance and P&I; arbitration and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards; enforcement of foreign court judgments or decree in India, oil, gas, energy, mining and power; commercial arbitration and enforcement of arbitral awards.

She is a very good contract analyst, analysing commercial transactions mainly projects (oil, gas, mining, power, infrastructure, construction) and shipping related work to avoid disputes in a proposed contract or analysing contractual documents in a proposed or on an on-going dispute, analysing the proposed terms or the existing terms of business contract, the task, performance and payment terms to the proposed or existing contract, assisting client in checking the capabilities and credibility's of a deal, assist in the process of negotiation of deals in a proposed contract, detecting and analysing any problem to the proposed contract or to the existing contract, this assist in better strategy be it transactional work or in a dispute resolution.

Successfully completed 'International Law', a course of study offered by Universite catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium under the guidance of Prof. Pierre d Argent a full time Professor at the University of Louvain in Belgium, where he holds the Public International Law Chair. This course covered the entire gamut of International Law, States, International Organisations, United Nations, International Law making, Customary International Law, International Treaties, Unilateral Acts, Soft-Law, Binding force of International Law, Interpreting International Law, Conflicting obligations, Application of International Law, Responsibility and concepts of Internationally wrongful Act, Attribution, Responsibilities, Counter measures, Pacific Settlement Disputes, Arbitration, International Court of Justice Jurisdiction and Procedure, International Criminal Court, International Immunities et al.