Niranjan is a leading junior at the Commercial Bar. He was named Legal 500 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.
Called in 2015, called to the Indian Bar in 2010.
Combar, LCLCBA.
BA LLB (Hons); BCL, DPhil (Oxon); Vinerian, Eldon and Rhodes scholar