Mr. Gourab Banerji is a Senior Advocate practising primarily in the Supreme Court of India, and specialises in domestic and international arbitration.

He read law at Cambridge University, graduating with First Class Honours, and was called to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn in 1990. He was designated a Senior Advocate in 2003 and appointed Additional Solicitor General of India (ASG) in 2009.

He has appeared in several high stake and complex matters, including commercial and investment treaty arbitrations, and has also been has been appointed as an arbitrator in various international commercial arbitrations seated in India and abroad, including most recently by the Supreme Court of India.

He has appeared in cases involving the scope of a court’s power while appointing an arbitrator, scope of a court’s interference with an arbitral award, levy of interest on arbitral awards, validity of multi-tier arbitral clauses, territorial jurisdiction in enforcement of arbitral awards, and validity of emergency awards, among others.

He was recently appointed the amicus curiae by a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court in NN Global Mercantile Pvt Ltd. v. Indo Unique Flame, C.A No.3802-03 of 2020, on the issue of enforceability of arbitration agreements contained in an unstamped contract. He had also been appointed amicus curiae by the Supreme Court in Union of India v. Vedanta Ltd [(2020) 10 SCC 1] which related to the enforcement of a foreign award in India.

He is presently a National Correspondent of India for the UNCITRAL CLOUT system and the Vice Chairman of the UNCITRAL National Coordination Committee for India.

He was recognized as a leading Senior Advocate in the category of ‘Dispute Resolution, Supreme Court of India’ by Chambers and Partners in 2021.