Nikhil Narayanan

Nikhil Narayanan is a senior M&A partner at Khaitan & Co. with a broad corporate practice and extensive cross-border experience spanning two and a half decades in both in London and in India.

He advises corporate clients, private equity funds and investment banks on high value and market-leading public and private M&A transactions, joint ventures, IPOs and rights issues. Nikhil also provides strategic counsel to clients in relation to public company matters, governance issues and shareholder activism. He also regularly advises several international credit funds and global investment banks on special situations investments and complex restructurings in India.

Nikhil has been ranked as the “Emerging Leader” in the Indian market by RSG and as a leading private equity lawyer in India in the RISE Private Capital Report (2025). He has also been highly ranked by legal directories such as Legal 500 (which has ranked him as a “Leading Individual” for insurance M&A), Chambers and Partners and others.

Prior to joining the Firm, he worked in a magic circle firm and certain leading US law firms in London. Nikhil also has an MBA and experience as an investment banker in a bulge bracket investment bank in London. Nikhil has studied at the London Business School, Oxford University and the National Law School of Indian University.