Counsel for the full arc
of modern commerce.

Domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, divestments and joint ventures. We act for Indian and international strategics, sponsors and founders across the full life-cycle of a transaction — from early-stage diligence and structuring through signing, regulatory clearances and post-completion integration.

Our M&A practice has particular depth in technology, financial services, healthcare and industrials, and we regularly partner with international counsel on inbound transactions involving India.

• Public and private M&A
• Technology M&A and carve-outs
• Joint ventures and shareholder arrangements
• Management buyouts and promoter transactions
• Competition Commission filings and regulatory approvals
• Post-merger integration and dispute prevention

Day-to-day corporate counsel for Indian and international businesses — the contracts, the board matters, the shareholder communications, the quiet questions that never reach a press release but determine how well a business runs.

We handle this work in the way our clients want it handled: quickly, commercially, and without the overheads that make legal advice feel like a tax on decision-making.

• Commercial contracting and negotiation
• Corporate secretarial and compliance support
• Distribution, supply and services arrangements
• Cross-border commercial structures
• Technology and SaaS contracting
• Intra-group restructuring

Counsel to boards, committees and senior management on fiduciary duties, related-party frameworks, conflicts, and the sensitive internal matters that rarely leave the room. Our work here is necessarily discreet and often urgent.

We combine the corporate and regulatory knowledge needed to structure board-level decisions with the disputes experience to advise on where those decisions might later be tested.

• Board advisory and independent director counsel
• Related-party transactions and conflicts management
• Audit committee and risk committee support
• Internal investigations and sensitive enquiries
• Whistle-blower and escalation frameworks
• ESG governance and disclosure

Leveraged, acquisition, asset and working-capital finance for Indian and offshore lenders, sponsors and corporates. We advise on the full range of bilateral and syndicated structures, with particular experience in cross-border lending into India and in the regulatory perimeter that shapes it.

Our work ranges from large-ticket syndications through to bespoke private debt arrangements, and we are comfortable leading negotiations on either side of the transaction.

• Acquisition and leveraged finance
• Syndicated and bilateral lending
• Cross-border and external commercial borrowings
• Asset-based lending and working capital
• Security, intercreditor and subordination arrangements
• Lender enforcement and workouts

Receivables financing, direct assignments, co-lending, pass-through structures and whole-of-business securitisations — executed for banks, NBFCs, originators and investors. Our team has deep familiarity with the RBI framework and the operational detail that separates workable structures from theoretical ones.

We also advise on debt capital markets issuances, from straightforward listed debentures to more complex hybrid instruments.

• Direct assignment and securitisation
• Co-lending arrangements
• Listed non-convertible debentures
• Pass-through certificates and trust structures
• Masala bonds and overseas listings
• RBI and SEBI compliance for structured deals

Financing and project development for infrastructure, renewable energy, and large industrial mandates. We advise lenders, sponsors, EPC contractors and equity investors, with an understanding of the concession frameworks and regulatory approvals that underpin these projects.

• Power and renewable energy financing
• Roads, ports and urban infrastructure
• Concession and EPC contracting
• Project insurance and risk allocation
• Refinancings and secondary sales
• Dispute prevention and management

Transactional counsel across the private capital spectrum — from seed and Series A venture rounds through growth equity, buyouts and pre-IPO investments. We act for sponsors, founders, and syndicate investors, and we are equally at home with a founder-friendly minority check and a take-private structured for control.

Our experience in M&A and governance means we are frequently retained on the post-investment questions that follow — board rights, follow-ons, exits, and the occasional difficult conversation.

• Venture capital investments and follow-ons
• Growth equity and pre-IPO rounds
• Buyouts and take-privates
• Founder and promoter counsel
• Syndicate arrangements and club deals
• Exit transactions and secondary sales

Structuring and establishing alternative investment funds, private debt vehicles, and insurance-linked products. We advise fund managers on formation, registration, LP negotiations, and the ongoing regulatory obligations that accompany an AIF licence in India.

We also work with the family offices and institutional allocators that sit on the other side of these structures.

• AIF formation and SEBI registration
• Private debt and credit fund structuring
• Side-letter negotiations and LP counsel
• Carry and incentive structuring
• Cross-border fund structures
• Ongoing regulatory and compliance support

Regulatory, M&A and transactional counsel for insurers, reinsurers and brokers operating in India. A specialised practice area that has grown alongside the liberalisation of the Indian insurance sector and the increasing sophistication of the products on offer.

• Insurance M&A and investment
• IRDAI licensing and product approvals
• Reinsurance and retrocession arrangements
• Bancassurance and distribution partnerships
• Insurtech and digital distribution
• Claims disputes and regulatory enquiries

Commercial arbitration — domestic and international — and complex high-stakes litigation before Indian courts. We act for Indian and offshore clients across a range of industries, with particular depth in shareholder and joint-venture disputes, post-M&A claims, and contract disputes in infrastructure and financial services.

Our approach is to engage early on risk assessment and settlement architecture, not only on case management — a disposition that reflects our view that the best-resolved dispute is often the one resolved without a final award.

• International commercial arbitration
• Ad hoc and institutional arbitration in India
• Shareholder and joint-venture disputes
• Contract and commercial litigation
• Enforcement of foreign awards
• Interim and emergency relief

IBC proceedings, pre-pack arrangements, out-of-court workouts and distressed asset acquisitions. We act for creditors, debtors, resolution professionals and investors acquiring stressed businesses, and we maintain an active presence before the NCLT and NCLAT.

• CIRP and resolution plan negotiations
• Out-of-court and one-time-settlement workouts
• Distressed asset acquisitions
• Pre-pack arrangements
• Cross-border insolvency coordination
• NCLT and NCLAT representation

Engagements with regulators and counterparties on investigations, enforcement actions and compliance matters across financial services, competition, tax and sectoral regulation. Much of this work is confidential by nature; the partners who lead it are experienced in the soft skills as well as the legal.

• SEBI and RBI investigations
• Competition Commission enquiries
• Internal and cross-border investigations
• White-collar and anti-bribery compliance
• Whistle-blower matters
• Regulatory settlements and undertakings

Counsel to payment networks, digital lenders, neo-banks, wealth platforms and crypto businesses on the full stack of Indian regulation — RBI licensing, PA/PG frameworks, the DPDP Act, and the expanding perimeter of the SEBI regime. A practice built for a sector in motion.

• DPDP Act compliance and DPIA
• Digital lending and PA/PG compliance
• Payment system licensing
• Crypto and virtual digital asset regulation
• Cross-border data transfer
• AI and algorithmic governance

Advising boards, issuers and investors on ESG governance, BRSR disclosure, green finance, and the emerging sustainability-linked instruments that are reshaping how capital is raised in India. The practice is grounded in governance experience, which is where most ESG questions ultimately settle.

• ESG governance frameworks
• BRSR disclosure and assurance
• Green bonds and sustainability-linked loans
• Climate risk and transition plans
• Supply chain due diligence
• Sustainable investment mandates

Transactional and regulatory counsel across hospitality, real-money gaming, OTT and entertainment. A rapidly evolving sector whose legal contours are being set in real time, and where commercial fluency matters as much as regulatory knowledge.

• Hotel and F&B M&A and operations
• Real-money gaming licensing and compliance
• OTT and content regulation
• Sports rights and sponsorships
• Intellectual property and licensing
• Cross-border content distribution

Transactional, regulatory and commercial counsel for hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers and digital health businesses operating in India. An area where regulatory change and M&A activity have converged.

• Hospital and healthcare M&A
• Pharmaceutical licensing and compliance
• Clinical trials and data protection
• Medical devices and diagnostics
• Digital health and telemedicine
• Cross-border healthcare partnerships

Brand, content and technology-facing IP counsel, including protection, enforcement, and the IP dimensions of M&A and commercial transactions. We also handle the licensing and technology transfer arrangements that sit at the intersection of IP and corporate work.

• Trademark prosecution and enforcement
• Copyright and trade secret protection
• Technology transfer and licensing
• IP due diligence for transactions
• Open source and software compliance
• IP-led dispute resolution