Preeti Nalavadi is a qualified and admitted corporate lawyer from India with over 18 years of experience. She has worked in different capacities both in Australia and in India including working as a Legal Manager at Canara Bank, one of the leading Banks in India for 11 years.

She is currently a Doctoral Candidate at Adelaide Law School under the supervision of Emeritus Prof Chris Symes and Associate Prof David Brown.  Her thesis topic is Comparative and functional study of corporate rescue in three countries- US, Australia and India. She is a commonwealth and Zelling Gray Scholar. She is a Sessional Academic for Commercial Law. She is expected to requalify as a Solicitor for Australia in 2024.

During her candidature she has been invited to present her research at various international conferences organised by the Australian Corporate Law Teachers Association (Scola), Australia and New Zealand Law History and Society, Ross Parson Center at Sydney Law School and Prof. Bob Wessels’ PhD Conference (Leiden University). She is working on several publication projects for peer reviewed journals.