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Krishna’s practice covers all areas of commercial dispute resolution focussing in particular on large-scale disputes involving complex points of law.

Krishna recently appeared in the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal (led by Lord Pannick KC) in successful appeals on behalf of the Danish Tax and Customs Administration (The Lawyer’s Top 10 Appeals of 2022). He acts at first instance (led by Laurence Rabinowitz KC and Charles Graham KC) in the year-long trial of a £1.5 billion fraud claim in proceedings which have been described as “perhaps the largest and most complicated civil proceedings ever commenced in the Commercial Court” (The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases of 2021).

Krishna’s other recent instructions include a two-day hearing before the Court of Appeal raising complex legal issues relating to issue estoppel and abuse of process (led by Charles Graham KC), an appeal testing the application of the reflective loss rule to civil fraud claims (led by Stephen Auld KC), a four-day appeal raising issues relating to remoteness and ‘loss of a chance’ damages (led by David Edwards KC and Orlando Gledhill KC; the appeal settled after exchange of skeleton arguments), a four-week Commercial Court trial defending a c.£350 million claim (led by Orlando Gledhill KC) and the independent investigation into the FCA’s regulation of London Capital & Finance (led by Dame Elizabeth Gloster DBE).

From March to July 2019, Krishna worked as a Judicial Assistant at the Commercial Court where he assisted the judges with some of the leading cases decided during that period including Arcelormittal v Essar Steel [2019] EWHC 724 (Comm) (Jacobs J), PJSC Tatneft v Bogolyubov [2019] EWHC 1400 (Comm) (Butcher J), Saab v Dangate Consulting Ltd [2019] EWHC 1558 (Comm) (Cockerill J), Ministry Of Defence v International Military Services Ltd [2019] EWHC 1994 (Comm) (Phillips J) and Magdeev v Tsvetkov [2019] EWHC 1557 (Comm) (Picken J).

Before Krishna was called to the Bar, he researched and taught the law of restitution at Oxford. His work on the subject was cited with approval by Leggatt LJ (as he then was) in Equitas Insurance Ltd v Municipal Mutual Insurance Ltd [2019] EWCA Civ 718. His book ‘Unjust Enrichment and Countervailing Obligations’ (Hart 2025) is due to be published in early 2025. He is also an editor of and contributor to ‘Foundations of Indian Contract Law’ (OUP 2024).

Krishna is qualified to practice in India and is able to advise on commercial disputes involving Indian law.

Judicial Assistant, Commercial Court (March – July 2019)

Inner Temple (called in 2017) Called to the Bar in India (2013)

BA, LLB (Hons), National Law School of India University (first in year) (2007 – 2012)

BCL, University of Oxford (Distinction) (2012 – 2013)

MPhil in law, University of Oxford (Distinction) (2013 – 2014)

DPhil in law, University of Oxford (2014 – 2019)