Transactions and Corporate/M&A

Head of Transactions Practice and Managing Partner

Enrollment in the Bar in August 1992.

Qualified to practise law in India, California, and England & Wales, although currently on inactive status in the latter two jurisdictions. Having work experience in California and London.

Judicial Clerk at the Superior Court of Santa Clara County, San Jose, CA – 1995

Worked at Lawrence Jones (now merged into TLT), London, UK - 1996 Akil Hirani is the head of transactions practice and managing partner and specialises in banking and finance; corporate/M&A; private equity and venture capital; projects and energy; tax; and technology, media and telecommunications.

Particular experience includes structuring investments of foreign companies and financial institutions into India, tax and regulatory advice, M&A, joint ventures, and private equity. Represent the who's who of banks, multinationals and funds.

English, Hindi, French, Gujarati, Marathi

 

Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa Bombay Incorporated Law Society State Bar of California International Bar Association American Bar Association Law Society for England and Wales

BA, St. Xavier’s College, University of Mumbai (1989) LLB (Hons.), Government Law College, University of Mumbai (1992)