Senior Advocate
Supreme Court of India
Krishnan Venugopal is a Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of India. He has argued cases before the Supreme Court, the High Courts and various statutory tribunals on a broad range of legal issues involving commercial law, arbitration law, economic regulation, constitutional and administrative law, etc.
Mr. Venugopal has an academic and professional interest in international trade law, industrial policy and domestic economic regulation. He has represented India before WTO panels and the WTO Appellate Body in a number of international trade disputes including against the United States in India - Patents (1998), India - Quantitative Restrictions on Imports (1999), India - Auto Policy (2002) and against the European Union in EC - GSP Tariff Preferences (2004). Recently, in 2007-2008, he represented India before a WTO panel and the Appellate Body and succeeded in obtaining a ruling against the United States in a challenge to certain customs bonding regulations imposed on imports of shrimp from India subject to anti-dumping duties. He has been advising India's Ministry of Commerce on WTO-related issues since 1997 and was a member of India's official delegation to the WTO Ministerial Conferences at Cancun and Hong Kong as part of the Doha Round negotiations. He has also advised the Ministry of Commerce on the negotiations at the OECD on the proposed Steel Subsidies Agreement (2003-2004) and the Comprehensive Economic Co-operation Agreement with Singapore (2005-2006). He has also been engaged by the International Telecommunications Union, a specialized U.N. agency, as a Senior Expert in Trade and Telecommunications to advise developing nations on telecommunications negotiations at the WTO and to deliver lectures on the regulation of ICT in India at seminars in Bangkok, Thailand and Thimphu, Bhutan.
Mr. Venugopal graduated with a B.A. (Hons.) in History and an LL.B. from Delhi University and won an Inlaks Scholarship to pursue graduate studies at the Harvard Law School. He received a Master's degree in Law (LL.M.) in 1986 and continued his graduate studies there in the area of economic development and foreign investment regulation. He has also been a visiting lecturer in Human Rights at the University of Puerto Rico Law School. After being admitted to the New York Bar, he worked with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, a Wall Street law firm, as a corporate lawyer. Upon his return to India, he worked in the Chambers of Shri Ashok H. Desai, former Attorney General for India and thereafter started his own practice as counsel before the Supreme Court of India.
Mr. Venugopal has an academic and professional interest in international trade law, industrial policy and domestic economic regulation. He has represented India before WTO panels and the WTO Appellate Body in a number of international trade disputes including against the United States in India - Patents (1998), India - Quantitative Restrictions on Imports (1999), India - Auto Policy (2002) and against the European Union in EC - GSP Tariff Preferences (2004). Recently, in 2007-2008, he represented India before a WTO panel and the Appellate Body and succeeded in obtaining a ruling against the United States in a challenge to certain customs bonding regulations imposed on imports of shrimp from India subject to anti-dumping duties. He has been advising India's Ministry of Commerce on WTO-related issues since 1997 and was a member of India's official delegation to the WTO Ministerial Conferences at Cancun and Hong Kong as part of the Doha Round negotiations. He has also advised the Ministry of Commerce on the negotiations at the OECD on the proposed Steel Subsidies Agreement (2003-2004) and the Comprehensive Economic Co-operation Agreement with Singapore (2005-2006). He has also been engaged by the International Telecommunications Union, a specialized U.N. agency, as a Senior Expert in Trade and Telecommunications to advise developing nations on telecommunications negotiations at the WTO and to deliver lectures on the regulation of ICT in India at seminars in Bangkok, Thailand and Thimphu, Bhutan.
Mr. Venugopal graduated with a B.A. (Hons.) in History and an LL.B. from Delhi University and won an Inlaks Scholarship to pursue graduate studies at the Harvard Law School. He received a Master's degree in Law (LL.M.) in 1986 and continued his graduate studies there in the area of economic development and foreign investment regulation. He has also been a visiting lecturer in Human Rights at the University of Puerto Rico Law School. After being admitted to the New York Bar, he worked with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, a Wall Street law firm, as a corporate lawyer. Upon his return to India, he worked in the Chambers of Shri Ashok H. Desai, former Attorney General for India and thereafter started his own practice as counsel before the Supreme Court of India.