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Founding & Senior Partner

Avimukt is a Founding Partner and Senior Partner of INDUSLAW and advises and represents clients across a range of business laws and regulations. He helps domestic and international clients navigate India’s economy, ranging from investments, data protection, e-commerce to fintech across practice areas. Avimukt is based in the Firm’s New Delhi and NCR offices. He represents clients in M&A and PE transactions as well as commercial and corporate controversies including competition law, data protection and business regulatory matters, and has extensive experience in negotiating entry and exit strategies for investors and joint-venture partners. Avimukt has led India’s largest private equity financing in the hospitality sector and the expansion of several Indian companies overseas. Avimukt has been consistently recognised as a recommended lawyer in the Chambers and Partners Fin-Tech Rankings since 2020. The IFLR1000 2024-25 rankings have recognised him as a ‘Highly Regarded’ lawyer for M&A and Financial Services Regulatory. He has been named in India Business Law Journal’s ‘A-List’ of top 100 lawyers in India since the 2020 edition. Mondaq, the world’s leading expert content aggregator, awarded Avimukt its ‘Thought Leadership Award’ in 2021 as one of the most read authors on Mondaq.com. Avimukt has been recognised as a ‘Distinguished Practitioner’ by Asialaw Profiles for Private Equity since 2020. Over the years Avimukt has been consistently recognised as “one of the leading lawyers of India” for Corporate and M&A, Investment Funds and Dispute resolution by Asialaw Profiles. Legal500 Asia Pacific 2024 Guide has recognized Avimukt as a ‘Leading Lawyer’ for Fin-Tech and has consistently listed him as a recommended lawyer for TMT, Data Protection, Antitrust and Competition, Fin-Tech and Financial Services Regulatory. He has been recommended every year by the same publication over the last decade for Corporate and M&A transactions. Avimukt was endorsed as one of the most trusted lawyers in India in the Indian Corporate Counsel Association’s latest publication ‘The Vanguards’. Avimukt is a regular speaker at the UIA-ABA International Seminars on cross-border M&A since 2007. He is a guest faculty at the Indian Institute of Management (Lucknow) where he teaches legal aspects of mergers & acquisitions. He has authored reports and conducted several seminars on risks and structures in M&A transactions, data sovereignty and legal aspects of financial technology.