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Provided by Niranjan Venkatesan
Practice Areas
Niranjan is a leading junior at the Commercial Bar. He was named Legal500 Junior of the Year 2023 and is currently nominated for C&P Commercial Dispute Resolution Junior of the Year 2024 (having also been nominated in 2023). He is regularly instructed as lead or sole advocate in complex commercial litigation, often against silks. He also has extensive appellate experience, having appeared seven times in the Supreme Court and on multiple occasions in the Court of Appeal. 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, lead counsel); Watford Control Instruments v Brown (Chancery Division, sole counsel); 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); Enka v Chubb [2020] 1 WLR 4117 (Supreme Court and Court of Appeal); a complex UNCITRAL oil and gas arbitration worth c. $300 million; an ICC arbitration concerning the pharmaceutical industry (2023) (sole counsel, successful). He is also called to the Indian Bar (non-practising) and is able to advise on matters of Indian law.
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Niranjan Venkatesan is a highly sought after commercial junior with a burgeoning focus on the oil and gas sector. Venkatesan has appeared for sector clients in the commercial court and arbitration proceedings. He is also adept at acting in high-profile judicial review matters.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Niranjan's work is truly excellent and his drafting is particularly impressive."
"Niranjan Venkatesan has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the law."
"Niranjan has a brain the size of a planet and he has an appetite for crunching through documents."
"Responsive, all over the detail, and someone who's around when you need him. He grasps all of the issues in a case and is utterly brilliant."
"Niranjan is everyone's go-to junior barrister. A man with a brilliant mind, he's a certain future leader of the Commercial Bar."
"Incredibly clever, diligent and a clear thinker, he gets in all of the big cases and is often in the Supreme Court."
"Niranjan is absolutely brilliant. He is very calm under pressure and he has an incredibly sharp and insightful mind."
"Niranjan has such a beautiful mind. He is very clever and has that ability to distil extremely complex matters into simple concepts."
"Niranjan's work is truly excellent and his drafting is particularly impressive."
"Niranjan Venkatesan has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the law."
"Niranjan has a brain the size of a planet and he has an appetite for crunching through documents."
"Responsive, all over the detail, and someone who's around when you need him. He grasps all of the issues in a case and is utterly brilliant."
"Niranjan is everyone's go-to junior barrister. A man with a brilliant mind, he's a certain future leader of the Commercial Bar."
"Incredibly clever, diligent and a clear thinker, he gets in all of the big cases and is often in the Supreme Court."
"Niranjan is absolutely brilliant. He is very calm under pressure and he has an incredibly sharp and insightful mind."
"Niranjan has such a beautiful mind. He is very clever and has that ability to distil extremely complex matters into simple concepts."
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