Gravitas Legal

Corporate & Commercial, White Collar Crime and Investment Funds

Partner and Co-Founder

He started his journey as an associate at QuisLex Legal Services Pvt. Ltd. post which he was working with Dua Associates for more than 5 years. In 2014, he moved to Khaitan Sud & Partners where was leading the Corporate & Commercial team and in 2016 he co-founded Gravitas Legal.

He has advised clients on a host of legal issues including allotment of shares to shareholders, domestic inter-corporate borrowings, day-to-day corporate compliance-related matters, organization of Board meetings and General meetings, employment issues, and issues specific to sectors such as, automobiles/auto transmissions, hospitality, food products, aviation, aircraft hardware etc. He was also involved in drafting, vetting and negotiating agreements pertaining to wide range of activities such as leasing, licensing, sale and purchase of real estate, ISDA, working capital facilities, gas supply, public relations consultancy, IT services including SAP implementation, warehousing services and logistics support, distribution services, water supply, non-disclosure/confidentiality, hiring of service providers etc. Varij has been regularly advising fortune top-50 companies who are global leaders in QSR, aviation, automobile and technology development (such as General Motors, McDonalds, Wesco Aircraft, Allison Transmissions, United Biscuits, Edwards Lifesciences, Emerson and Travelex) in connection with divestment from a JV, securing external commercial borrowings and domestic term loan as well working capital facilities, disputes pertaining to acquisition of shares in a domestic joint venture company, strategic investment in technology sector and so on.

Besides actively advising banks, NBFCs and other financial institutions in relation to the financing of infrastructure and non-infrastructure projects with special emphasis on the power sector (renewable as well as non-renewable), he has hands on experience in preparation, review, negotiation and finalization of financing and security documentation as well as addressing transactional structuring related legal issues.

English & Hindi

Bar Council of Delhi and Delhi High Court Bar Association

B.A. LL.B (Hons.) from National Law University, Jodhpur (2008)

Varij has been an invitee to the Asia Multilateral Training Session organized by Allen & Gledhill, Singapore in the year 2011 and was also among the top delegates at the ‘Young Indian Leaders Conclave 2013’ organized by Citizens for Accountable Governance, presided by Late Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, former President of India and Mr. Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India. The conclave was attended by other dignitaries such as HDFC Bank Chairman Deepak Parekh, IIM-Ahmedabad Prof Brij Kothari, and JP Morgan MD, Sidharth Punshi among others.