Niranjan Venkatesan

Niranjan has a broad commercial practice. In recent years, he has acted (on numerous occasions) in the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal and has also been involved in complex, high-value litigation in the High Court and in international arbitration. 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: Goldman Sachs International v Novo Banco SA [2018] 1 WLR 3683 (Supreme Court); Tiuta v De Villiers [2017] 1 WLR 4627 (Supreme Court); Arcadia Petroleum v Bosworth [2019] IL Pr 22 (Supreme Court and CJEU); BAT Industries plc v Sequana [2019] EWCA Civ 112 (Court of Appeal, 5-day hearing); Société Générale v Goldas [2019] 1 WLR 346 (Court of Appeal); for the successful respondent in a c. $2 billion LCIA arbitration; for one of the defendants in a c. $1 billion Commercial Court claim arising out of the development of an oilfield in Nigeria; for the defendant in the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal following a successful jurisdiction challenge to a claim worth c. $1 billion; the Tesco shareholders' litigation in the Financial List.

He is also called to the Indian Bar (non-practising) and is able to advise on matters of Indian law.