Gourab BANERJI

Gourab has developed his practice mainly before the Supreme Court of India as a Senior Counsel with an emphasis on commercial matters, and particularly commercial arbitration.
He appears as counsel in a large number of domestic and international commercial arbitrations and investment arbitrations in India and overseas and routinely appears before the Indian courts on behalf of clients seeking enforcement of foreign awards. He is regularly briefed by leading private companies as also Indian Public Sector Undertakings.
Currently, a private legal practitioner, Gourab has also been a government legal officer, both at the Federal and the Provincial levels. While Additional Solicitor General for the Union of India, Gourab represented the Government of India in a number of sensitive and landmark cases. In Republic of Italy v Union of India [2013] 4 SCC 721, the Supreme Court held that India had concurrent jurisdiction to prosecute the Italian marines accused of shooting Indian fishermen within the Exclusive Economic Zone of India.
He has also advised the Government in the case of Kulvir Singh Barapind v The Government of the Republic of India, et al, a case before the U.S. courts under which the Government was sued under the Alien Torts Claim and summons were served on the Government, various governmental entities and officials (including the Prime Minister and various Cabinet Ministers); and succeeded in receiving an order from the court in the U.S. granting the motion to dismiss the case against the Republic of India. Further, on numerous occasions he has advised the Ministry of External Affairs on various matters concerning Public International Law.
While as a government legal officer and in private practice, Gourab has also successfully represented his clients before the Supreme Court in several civil and commercial cases including Centrotrade Minerals & Metals Inc. v Hindustan Copper Limited 2020 SCC OnLine SC 479, Jaiprakash Associates Limited v Tehri Hydro Development Corporation Limited (2019) 2 SCALE 718, K. Kishan v M/s Vijay Nirman Company Pvt. Ltd. (2018) 10 SCALE 256, SEBI v Rakhi Trading and Others (2018) 13 SCC 753, Essar Steel Ltd v Union of India and Ors. [2016] 11 SCC 1, New India Assurance Company Ltd v Genus Power Infrastructure Ltd [2015] 2 SCC 424, MECL v AK Diskhit [2015] 2 SCC 535, BHEL v Tata Projects Ltd [2015] 5 SCC 682, UPSC v Arun Kumar Sharma [2015] 12 SCC 600, 527.
Gourab has often represented clients such as subordinate judiciary judges’ associations pro bono in the Supreme Court of India. Apart from that, he has been appointed amicus curiae by the Courts in a number of matters relating to land laws, international commercial arbitration, Supreme Court practice and procedure, as well as indirect tax.