Niranjan Venkatesan

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Niranjan is a leading junior at the Commercial Bar. Nominated in 2023 both for Junior of the Year and Commercial Dispute Resolution Junior of the Year, he has a busy practice as sole counsel, often against silks. He has also been instructed on numerous occasions to act in the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal in cases raising complex questions of law. Before coming to the Bar, he read and taught law at Oxford where he was a Vinerian, Eldon and Rhodes scholar. Current or recent cases include: Invest Bank v El-Husseini (Commercial Court, sole counsel); Enka v Chubb [2020] 1 WLR 4117 (Supreme Court and Court of Appeal); BAT Industries plc v Sequana [2022] 3 WLR 709 (Supreme Court and Court of Appeal); Grand View Private Trust Co v Wong [2022] UKPC 47; PJSC NBT v Mints [2023] EWHC 118 (Comm), [2022] EWHC 871 (Comm); Arcadia Petroleum v Bosworth [2020] ICR 349 (Supreme Court and CJEU); a complex UNCITRAL oil and gas arbitration worth c. $300 million; an ICC arbitration concerning the pharmaceutical industry (2023). He is also called to the Indian Bar (non-practising) and is able to advise on matters of Indian law.