Corporate and Commercial

Sharad Abhyankar is a Partner in the Corporate and Commercial Practice Group in the Mumbai office. With over 30 years of experience, Sharad specialises in corporate laws, securities laws, anti-trust laws, telecom regulations, constitutional litigation and international commercial arbitrations. He advises Indian and international clients on strategic M&As, private equity investments and exits, capital market transactions, financing transactions, domestic and cross-border foreign collaborations and joint ventures, foreign exchange and securities law related matters.

Mehul is a Partner in the Corporate and Commercial Practice Group and is also the head of the Firm’s Restructuring practice. He specialises.  With over 25 years of experience, Mehul specialises in mergers and acquisitions, solvent and insolvent restructurings including court approved mergers and demergers, acquisitions under the insolvency law, joint ventures and collaborations.

Rahul Dutt is a Partner in the M&A and Private Equity Practice Group in the Mumbai office.

Rahul specialises in mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, franchising, technology licensing, infrastructure and commercial contracts across sectors including retail, refining, petrochemicals, telecommunications, security solutions, and general corporate law advisory.

Ashish is a Partner in the M&A and Private Equity Practice Group in the Mumbai office. His experience includes advising foreign and Indian corporations, private equity and venture capital funds and investment banks on corporate and commercial transactions such as mergers and acquisitions (both domestic and cross-border), private equity and venture capital investments, franchising and also on sports and corporate laws.

Nikhilesh Panchal is a corporate lawyer with over 25 years of practice and has wide experience of various aspects of law. His practice area ranges from mergers & acquisitions, securities law, joint ventures, capital market, intellectual property rights, licensing, technology transfers to maritime law.

Arindam Ghosh is a Partner in the Mumbai office of Khaitan & Co, with over 25 years of experience in the legal field. He heads the Public M&A Practice and Securities Law Practice Groups.

Aditya Patni is a Partner in the Corporate and Commercial Practice Group in the New Delhi office. He has extensive experience in handling issues relating to foreign investment, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity, competition and other allied corporate and commercial laws.

Madhur Kohli's experience includes advising on initial public offerings, follow-on public offerings, rights issues, qualified institutions placements, institutional placement programme, preferential issues, issuance of basel II and basel III bonds and international offerings.

Vanita Bhargava is a Senior Member of the Dispute Resolution Team in the New Delhi office. She is also an advocate on record in Supreme Court. She has almost 20 years of experience in a variety of matters including matters relating to constitutional laws, taxation laws, environment laws, civil laws, corporate laws, mining laws, forest laws, shareholding disputes and arbitration (domestic and international), banking laws and insolvency matters. 

Ganesh Prasad is a Partner in the Corporate and Commercial practice group in the Bangalore office. Ganesh joined the Firm from Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co, Mumbai where he was a partner in the corporate law team.