NIRAN DE SILVA K.C.
   

Niran de Silva K.C. is regularly instructed as counsel in institutional and ad hoc arbitrations, in particular in the telecommunications and aviation sectors. Recent arbitrations include appearing in a multi-million domestic arbitration brought by a telecommunications provider for the costs of monitoring and repairing its network and advising an aviation maintenance provider on an international arbitration against an emanation of a state.

He is also experienced in court litigation, in particular in the High Court in London, supporting the arbitration process, including interim applications and anti-suit injunctions. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2021. Alongside his practice as a barrister, he sits part-time as a judge in the English Family Courts and Employment Tribunals.

He has experience as sitting as an arbitrator in LCIA arbitrations. In the past, he has acted as tribunal secretary, including a number in which Matthieu de Boisséson was an arbitrator.

Niran studied History at Oxford University before doing the law conversion course at City University, London. He worked as an equity derivatives analyst and broker at Barclays Capital before joining a leading commercial set of barristers at the London bar where he currently practises. He lectures for commercial seminar providers on the subject of international arbitration.

The 2022 edition of Chambers and Partners states: “I always feel very comfortable in the knowledge that he has all the background and context needed, and he is very easy-going but he is also very forensic in the way that he can grapple with large amounts of evidence. On his feet he is very impressive and he has such a good knowledge of all the paperwork, even when there is a lot of it”.

The 2022 edition of Legal 500 states that he is “an excellent choice for employment/commercial cross-over work”.