Corporate and Commercial

Haigreve Khaitan is a Managing Partner and leads various practices at the Firm. He is an elected member of the National Executive Committee of the Firm, which is responsible for the Firm’s strategic growth and development. He advises companies, boards of directors and financial institutions on a wide range of corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, corporate governance, corporate restructuring and other corporate and securities laws matters.

P.L. Agarwal is a Partner speacialising in the Corporate and Commercial Law and Real Estate Consultancy in a career spanning over four decades. He has been advising several large industrial houses, multinational corporations and banks, including Tata Global Beverages Limited, Simplex Infrastructures Group, Pricewaterhouse Coopers Private Limited, Linde India Limited, ICICI Bank Limited, ITC Limited, Balrampur Chini Mills Limited, DIC India Limited (formerly Coates of India Limited) and group companies, the Ambuja Group, the R.P.

Mr Khaitan is the Senior Partner of the Firm and is widely regarded as amongst the most influential legal practitioners in India. With over 40 years of experience, Mr Khaitan has advised on a wide range of transactions.

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.

Soumya Mohapatra is a Partner in the Capital Markets practice group in the Mumbai office.

With more than 12 years of experience, Soumya specialises and advices on a wide range of equity and debt capital market transactions including initial public offerings, global depository receipts offerings, qualified institutions placements, rights issues, and public offering of non-convertible debentures.

Pashupati is a Partner in the Corporate & Commercial practice group in the New Delhi office. Pashupati specialises in M&A, private equity, joint ventures and corporate advisory etc. He has worked on drafting opinions and advising clients on a variety of legal issues relating to general corporate and commercial laws, labour laws, FEMA, RBI related issues.

Siddharth Shah is a senior partner with Khaitan & Co in its Mumbai office and leads the funds practice for the firm. He has over 20 years of professional experience in advising clients in the matters relating to fund formations, setting up of investment platforms, structuring of private equity investments and other corporate transactional matters dealing with joint ventures and M&As in public and private space.

Vivek Mimani is a Partner in the Investment Funds Practice Group. Prior to joining Khaitan & Co, he was a part of the Investments Funds Practice Group at Nishith Desai Associates.

Arvind Jhunjhunwala is an experienced lawyer with qualification and experience both in the corporate and in the litigation field. He is also a qualified Chartered Accountant and Company Secretary and has actively handled various corporate works including advisory on FEMA, SEBI Takeover Regulations, Carbon Credits and Forex Derivatives. He has also advised on several capital market issues including QIPs, IPOs, private equity investments, takeovers, delisting and related issues.

Rajat Mukherjee is a Partner in the Corporate and M&A practice group in the NCR office. With over 23 years of experience, Rajat concentrates primarily on M&A, strategic partnerships and cross-border transactions. Rajat also has significant experience in providing strategic advice to clients on high value corporate disputes and corporate governance matters.