Sunil Rai

Corporate, M&A, Venture Capital, Private Equity

Sunil Rai is a senior partner in Dentons Rodyk’s Corporate practice group. He is co-head of the Venture Tech & Emerging Growth Companies practice group. He is also co-head of the India practice group which works on outbound and inbound India-related transactions .

Sunil concentrates his practice in corporate and transactional matters encompassing investments and exits (buyouts, trade sales), domestic and cross border mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures, licensing, corporate governance, restructuring of entities, employment law matters including formulating stock option/ share award schemes (ESOP/ ESAS), establishing new businesses and assisting clients in drafting and reviewing contracts across a broad spectrum of various industries, verticals and government sectors. Sunil is particularly experienced in complex investment and venture-backed transactions involving multiple parties, various shareholders and parties across several jurisdictions. He enjoys acting for institutional investors (family offices, venture capital funds and private equity investors) making investments and divestments and start-ups/ early stage entities receiving investments at all stages of a company’s life-cycle - from seed stage to advanced stages such as Series D and beyond.

Sunil has a strong interest in investment-related work (involving venture capital and private equity), building up the Israel, Middle East and India - Singapore deal corridor and also enthusiastically assisting in the growth of various SMEs, start-ups and private funds through establishing new ventures, handling legal issues, fund-raising, managing of investments and value creation.

Sunil has given several presentations and written articles on business structures, investment term sheets, essentials of contracts, corporate fraud, mergers regime under Competition Act of Singapore, Personal Data Protection Act and amendments to Companies Act of Singapore and the Variable Capital Company regime. He has also been actively involved in pro bono activities for several years including being a grassroots leader and also an active mediator with Community Mediation Centre and Consumer Association of Singapore and mentoring startups at Singapore University of Social Sciences. Sunil also volunteered as a judge at the International Mediation Competitions organised by SIMI in 2019 and 2020.

University of Manchester, 2014, MBA, (Global) 2005, Postgraduate Study, Practice Law Course (in Top 10% of cohort) National University of Singapore, 2005, LLB, (2nd Class Hons, Upper Division)