One Essex Court

Niranjan was appointed King’s Counsel in 2025 after only nine years in practice.. Before taking silk, he was one of the leading juniors at the Commercial Bar (Legal500 Junior of the Year 2023; C&P Commercial Dispute Resolution Junior of the Year 2024; ranked in C&P Band 1).

He is generally instructed as lead advocate in complex commercial litigation and in international arbitration. He also has extensive appellate experience, having appeared eight times in the Supreme Court and on multiple occasions in the Court of Appeal. He is often brought into appeals and is known for his ability to find solutions in difficult cases. 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); DP World v Soprim (Commercial Court); Gormsen v Meta (Competition Appeal Tribunal); Hopcraft v Close Brothers (Supreme Court); Watford Control Instruments v Brown (Chancery Division); 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).

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

Called in 2015

Combar, LCLCBA.

BA LLB (Hons); BCL, DPhil (Oxon); Vinerian, Eldon and Rhodes scholar