Legal professional qualifications

• Legal Practice Course, 2016
• Graduate Diploma in Law, 2014, Gold Award

Academic qualifications

• MA in English Literature, Durham University, 2013
  Distinction, Floreat Scholarship, 2012

• BA in English Literature, Durham University, 2012
  First Class Honours, Baxter Prizes, 2010, 2011

• Solicitor, qualified in England & Wales 2018
• Solicitor,Advocate, qualified in England & Wales 2019

Advising / acting for:

• A national oil company - in US$10 billion arbitration proceedings related to a joint venture in the Middle East (LCIA, English law).
• An energy supermajor - in US$240m arbitration proceedings relating to leakage claims arising out of an SPA (LCIA, Danish law)
• A national oil company - in US$86m arbitration proceedings arising out of a plug and abandonment project offshore in Africa (LCIA, Angolan law)
• An energy supermajor in US$115m arbitration proceedings arising out of the sale of offshore assets in Africa (LCIA, English law).
• An energy supermajor - in c.£450 million Commercial Court proceedings relating to decommissioning security in the North Sea.
• A global wind turbine manufacturer - in arbitration proceedings arising out of a joint venture dispute (Ad hoc, English law)
• A global gold mining company - in respect of three claims exceeding a total of US$148m arising out of one of its Tanzanian mines ((i) AFSA, English law, South Africa seat; (ii) Ad hoc, Tanzanian law, Dar es Salaam seat; (iii) Ad hoc, English law)
• A dual-listed ‎gold mining company and its subsidiary - in a multimillion dollar arbitration proceedings brought against it by its earthworks and civils contractor in connection with a gold mine in West Africa (AFSA, English law)
• An energy supermajor - in three health and safety investigations following incidents at its UK-based chemical plant
• An energy supermajor - in High Court litigation proceedings in relation to the illegal tapping of UK oil pipelines. Advocated at a successful application hearing for a charging order over the defendant's property
• The contractor - in High Court proceedings relating to a waste-to-energy plant (Essex County Council v UBB Waste (Essex) Ltd [2020] EWHC 1581 (TCC)).
• The operator of an onshore licence - in High Court proceedings against one of the JOA partners relating to a claim for unpaid invoices
• A London-listed investment trust operating UK wind farms - in relation to a statutory nuisance claim.

Commodities Disputes and Commercial Litigation;

'Holly Stebbing and India Furse are both exceptional. Both are stars in the making.'

• NRF Insights, July 2022, 'The ECT's modern makeover unveiled'
• NRF Insights, February 2021, 'UK Supreme Court clarifies issues on parent company liability in Okpabi and others v Royal Dutch Shell Plc'
• Regular contributor for the Norton Rose Fulbright quarterly "International Arbitration Report"
• Lexology - Getting the Deal Through, Introduction and UK Chapter 2020, 2021
• Inside Africa blog – https://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/en/inside-africa/blog/2021/02/uk-supreme-court-clarifies-issues-on-parent-company-liability
• NRF Insights – https://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/en/knowledge/publications/f248bef3/court-of-appeal-considers-unusual-extension-to-duty-of-care-principles
• Case Updater: PCP v Barclays Bank Plc, November 2020 - https://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/en/inside-disputes-and-investigations/blog/case-updater-pcp-v-barclays-waiver-of-privilege
• Case Updater: Apache North Sea Limited v INEOS FPS Limited, September 2020 - https://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/en/knowledge/publications/2613056a/case-updater-apache-north-sea-limited-v-ineos-fps-limited
• Third-party funding in investor-state arbitration, July 2018 - https://www.insideafricalaw.com/blog/third-party-funding-in-investor-state-arbitration
• To seat or not to seat? That was the question in Atlas Power decision, June 2018 - http://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/knowledge/publications/168720/to-seat-or-not-to-seat-that-was-the-question-in-atlas-power-decision
• West Tankers stays on course in recent anti-suit decision, December 2018 - http://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/knowledge/publications/171645/west-tankers-stays-on-course-in-recent-anti-suit-decision

India is a regular presenter on legal topics and developments, both internally and to clients.

• 2020 NRF Energy Academy – "Gas, LNG and the energy transition"
• 2020 NRF Projects Academy – "When Projects Turn South – Traps for the Unwary", which can be accessed on demand and forms part of our Energy Academy and Projects Academy