Combining extensive expertise in M&A, joint venture, and general corporate transactions, the AZB & Partners team is highly praised for its domestic and international capabilities. The practice has vast experience of representing clients from across the technology, pharma, and finance industries, and consistently demonstrates market-leading knowledge on securities law and data privacy issues within M&A. The managing partners, Ajay Bahl and Zia Mody, specialise in restructurings and private equity investment work, with the former based in Delhi, and the latter in Mumbai. Delhi-based Anil Kasturi focuses on demergers and public takeovers, whilst in Mumbai, Ashwath Rau and Kritika Agarwal routinely provide financial regulatory advice and both Nandish Vyas and Darshika Kothari assist with PE investment issues.
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Testimonials
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‘It is essential that the law firm engaged are expert in this domain and keeping abreast with latest regulations to advise on M&A matters. AZB team has good expertise in the M&A domain and they supported in various corporate strategies in our organisation.’
‘AZB team and lawyers are expert in M&A domain and hands on with latest regulations and law that impacts M&A activities in an organization. Some of the key qualities are their domain expertise, knowledge about M&A, understanding about regulations and latest changes in that which is essential for advising clients on various strategic initiatives.’
‘Top notch, sophisticated legal advice. Very responsive and very knowledgeable across all legal areas. They are clearly very accustomed to working with clients and law firms from around the globe.’
‘Darshika Kothari was a pleasure to work with. She and her team were very helpful (and understanding of unreasonable deadlines and requests), and they led us to a successful completion of our transaction.’
Key clients
- Housing Development Finance Corporation Limited
- Holcim Group
- Citibank
- KKR
- Larsen & Toubro Limited
- TotalEnergies Gaz & Electricité Holding
- HDFC Life Insurance Company Limited
- Tata Motors Limited
- London Stock Exchange Group
- Metro AG
- Wipro Limited
- Zifo Technologies
- IHC Capital Holding LLC
- Heubach GmbH and SK Capital Partners, LP
- Spark Capital
- Trelleborg Holding Ab
- Egis Engineering
- IHC Capital Holding
- Wipro Limited
- Tata Sons Private Limited
- Oiltanking GmbH
- Trans Union LLC
- Eltropy Inc.
- Eqova Healthcare Private Limited
- Ulink Agritech Private Limited
- Bharti Airtel Limited
- Jubilant Enpro Private Limited
- Max Life Insurance Company Limited
- Max Financial Services Limited
- LT Foods Limited
- GlaxoSmithKline Plc
- Hydreq Pte. Ltd.
- Amazon
- OFB Tech Private Limited
- Michael & Susan Dell Foundation
- Bharti Realty Limited & Bharti Enterprises Limited
- Sequoia Capital India LLP
- Scholiverse Educare Private Limited
- LC Nueva AIF
- Housr Technologies Private Limited
- Perfect Day, Inc.
- Varde Partners Asia Pte. Ltd.
- Experion Capital Private Limited
- Accion Digital Transformation Fund, LP
- Plutus Investments and Holding Private Limited
- Accordion Partners LLC
- Yasuda Logistics Corporation
- Diliigent Power Private Limited
- Gensol Engineering Limited
- Clean Max Enviro Energy Solutions Private Limited and its founder, Mr. Kuldeep Jain
- Max Estates Limited and Acreage Builders Private Limited
- Blu-Smart Mobility Private Limited and Mr. Anmol Singh Jaggi
- Hero Enterprise Venture Partners
Lawyers
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Kritika Agarwal
AZB & PartnersPractice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Ajay Bahl, Zia Mody, Ashwath Rau, Anil Kasturi, Darshika Kothari, Hardeep Sachdeva, Srinath Dasari, Vaidhyanadhan Iyer, Vinati Kastia