AZB & Partners

India

Address:
AZB House, Peninsula Corporate Park, Ganpatrao Kadam Marg, Lower Parel
Mumbai, 400 013
India

+ 91 22 4072 9999

+91 22 6639 6888


Key contacts:

Founding & Managing Partner: Zia Mody
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Founding & Managing Partner: Ajay Bahl
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Founding & Senior Partner: Bahram N. Vakil
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Quick facts:

Lawyers: 600+
Number of partners: 126
Network memberships: INTA, AIPPI, LESI, APPA
Languages: English, German, French, Chinese, Japanese, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati


AZB & Partners was founded in 2004 with a clear purpose to provide reliable, practical and full–service advice to clients, across all sectors.
We have an accomplished and driven team of 600+ lawyers committed to delivering best–in–class legal solutions to help clients achieve their objectives.

Our greatest strength is an in–depth understanding of legal, regulatory and commercial environments, in India and elsewhere. This strength enables us to provide bespoke counsel to help our diverse clients negotiate any dynamic or volatile business environment. At AZB & Partners, collaboration is an everyday reality – we combine individual and mutual strengths to achieve collective growth.

  • Banking
  • Capital markets: Debt
  • Capital markets: Derivatives
  • Capital markets: Equity
  • Competition
  • Covered bonds
  • Financial restructuring
  • Financial services regulatory
  • Investment funds
  • M&A
  • Private equity
  • Private equity funds
  • Project bonds
  • Project development
  • Project finance
  • Real estate finance
  • Real estate funds
  • Restructuring and insolvency
  • Securitisation
  • Structured finance/securitisation
  • Capital markets: High yield

Aviation
Anand Shah – anand.shah@azbpartners.com

Banking & Finance
Bahram N. Vakil – Bahram.n.vakil@azbpartners.com
Anand Shah – anand.shah@azbpartners.com
Gautam Ganjawala – gautam.ganjawala@azbpartners.com
Nilang T Desai – Nilang.desai@azbpartners.com

Capital Markets
Varoon Chandra – Varoon.Chandra@azbpartners.com
Lionel Almedia – lionel.almeida@azbpartners.com
Agnik Bhattacharyya – agnik.bhattacharyya@azbpartners.com

Competition / Antitrust
Bharat Budholia – bharat.budholia@azbpartners.com
Hemangini Dadwal – Hemangini.dadwal@azbpartners.com
Gaurav Bansal – Gaurav.bansal@azbpartners.com

Compliance & Investigation / White Collar Crime
Nohid Nooreyezdan – nohid.nooreyezdan@azbpartners.com
Ajay Upadhyay – ajay.upadhyay@azbpartners.com
Soumit Nikhra – Soumit.nikhra@azbpartners.com
Rajendra Barot – Rajendra.Barot@azbpartners.com
Vijayendra Pratap Singh – vijayendra.singh@azbpartners.com
Prerak Ved – Prerak.ved@azbpartners.com
Aditya Vikram Bhat – aditya.bhat@azbpartners.com

Corporate / M&A
Ajay Bahl – Ajay.Bahl@azbpartners.com
Zia Mody – zia.mody@azbpartners.com
Ashwath Rau – аshwath.rau@azbpartners.com
Darshika Kothari – darshika.kothari@azbpartners.com
Anil Kasturi – anil.Kasturi@azbpartners.com
Vaidhyanadhan Iyer – vaidhyanadhan.iyer@azbpartners.com

Data Privacy & Protection
Anind Thomas – anind.thomas@azbpartners.com
Rachit Bahl – Rachit.Bahl@azbpartners.com
Vipul Jain – Vipul.Jain@azbpartners.com
Nandan Pendsey – Nandan.Pendsey@azbpartners.com

Dispute Resolution
Rajendra Barot – Rajendra.Barot@azbpartners.com
Vijayendra Pratap Singh – vijayendra.singh@azbpartners.com
Aditya Vikram Bhat – aditya.bhat@azbpartners.com

E-Commerce & Retail
Darshika Kothari – Darshika.kothari@azbpartners.com
Hardeep Sachdeva – Hardeep.sachdeva@azbpartners.com
Srinath Dasari – Srinath.dasari@azbpartners.com
Nanditha Gopal – Nanditha.gopal@azbpartners.com
Rachit Bahl – Rachit.Bahl@azbpartners.com

Employment Labour & Benefits
Nohid Nooreyezdan – nohid.nooreyezdan@azbpartners.com
Sunila Awasthi – sunila.awasthi@azbpartners.com
Ajay Singh Solkani – ajay.solanki@azbpartners.com

Energy
Bahram N. Vakil – Bahram.n.vakil@azbpartners.com
Aditya Periwal – Aditya.periwal@azbpartners.com
Anuja Tiwari – Anuja.Tiwar@azbpartners.com
Qais Jamal – Qais.Jamal@azbpartners.com

Financial Services
Anil Kasturi – Anil.Kasturi@azbpartners.com
Ashwath Rau – Ashwath.rau@azbpartners.com
Vaidhyanadhan Iyer – vaidhyanadhan.iyer@azbpartners.com
Rushabh Maniar – Rushabh.maniar@azbpartners.com

FinTech & Digital
Ashwath Rau – Ashwath.rau@azbpartners.com
Gautam Ganjawala – gautam.ganjawala@azbpartners.com
Rachit Bahl – Rachit.Bahl@azbpartners.com
Rohan Bagai – rohan.bagai@azbpartners.com
Vipul Jain – Vipul.Jain@azbpartners.com

Infrastructure
Bahram N. Vakil – Bahram.n.vakil@azbpartners.com
Aditya Periwal – Aditya.periwal@azbpartners.com
Anuja Tiwari – Anuja.Tiwar@azbpartners.com
Qais Jamal – Qais.Jamal@azbpartners.com

Insurance
Rajendra Barot – Rajendra.Barot@azbpartners.com
Anil Kasturi – Anil.Kasturi@azbpartners.com
Kashish Bhatia – Kashish.bhatia@azbpartners.com

Intellectual Property
Nandan Pendsey – Nandan.Pendsey@azbpartners.com
Akhilesh Kumar Rai – akhileshkumar.rai@azbpartners.com

Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare & Life Science
Darshika Kothari – Darshika.kothari@azbpartners.com
Vinati Kastia – Vinati.kastia@azbpartners.com
Srinath Dasari – Srinath.dasari@azbpartners.com
Nandan Pendsey – Nandan.Pendsey@azbpartners.com

Private Client Practice
Ajay Bahl – Ajay.Bahl@azbpartners.com
Zia Mody – zia.mody@azbpartners.com
Anand Shah – anand.shah@azbpartners.com

Private Equity & Venture Capital
Zia Mody – zia.mody@azbpartners.com
Anil Kasturi – Anil.Kasturi@azbpartners.com
Ashwath Rau – Ashwath.rau@azbpartners.com
Vinati Kastia – Vinati.kastia@azbpartners.com
Darshika Kothari – Darshika.kothari@azbpartners.com
Hardeep Sachdeva – Hardeep.sachdeva@azbpartners.com
Srinath Dasari – Srinath.dasari@azbpartners.com
Nandish Vyas – Nandish.vyas@azbpartners.com

Real Estate
Nohid Nooreyezdan – nohid.nooreyezdan@azbpartners.com
Hardeep Sachdeva – Hardeep.sachdeva@azbpartners.com

Regulatory & Securities
Ajay Bahl – Ajay.Bahl@azbpartners.com
Zia Mody – zia.mody@azbpartners.com
Rajendra Barot – Rajendra.Barot@azbpartners.com
Ashwath Rau – Ashwath.rau@azbpartners.com
Vijayendra Pratap Singh – vijayendra.singh@azbpartners.com

Restructuring & Insolvency
Bahram N. Vakil – Bahram.n.vakil@azbpartners.com
Nilang T Desai – Nilang.desai@azbpartners.com
Suharsh Sinha – Suharsh.sinha@azbpartners.com

Start–Ups & Emerging Companies
Srinath Dasari – Srinath.dasari@azbpartners.com
Nanditha Gopal – Nanditha.gopal@azbpartners.com

Tax
Ajay Bahl – Ajay.Bahl@azbpartners.com
Deepak Chopra – Deepak.Chopra@azbpartners.com
Suresh Varanasi – suresh.varanasi@azbpartners.com
Abhinav Ashwin – Abhinav.ashwin@azbpartners.com
Aditya Singh Chandel – Aditya.chandel@azbpartners.com

TMT
Ajay Bahl – Ajay.Bahl@azbpartners.com
Srinath Dasari – Srinath.dasari@azbpartners.com
Roxanne Anderson – Roxanne.anderson@azbpartners.com

Recent Transactional Highlights

  • TATA SIA Airlines Limited (Vistara)’s merger with Air India
  • BlackRock Inc.’s assets management joint venture with Jio Financial Services Limited
  • IDFC FIRST Bank Limited’s merger with IDFC Limited
  • TPG Capital’s acquisition of Manipal Health Enterprises
  • AU Small Finance Bank Limited's acquisition of Fincare
  • TA Asia Pacific Limited’s sale of a majority stake in Indira IVF
  • Siemens Energy Holding B.V.’s sale of stake in Siemens Limited
  • Air India Limited’s acquisition of 470 aircrafts from Airbus and Boeing
  • Abu Dhabi Investment Authority’s acquisition of stake in Lenskart
  • Tata Motors Limited’s acquisition of a Ford India Private Limited (FIPL) manufacturing plant
  • Clean Max Enviro Energy Solutions Private Limited’s sale of equity stake to Brookfield
  • Acquisition by India Grid Trust (a KKR sponsored InvIT) of Virescent Renewable Energy Trust
  • Acquisition of HDFC Credila by BPEA EQT
  • Investment by Trive Capital and BayLink Capital into Veltris formed through partnership and simultaneous combination of Wavelabs Technologies and West Agile Labs
  • Acquisition of 51.67% of the share capital of R Systems International Limited (RSIL) by BCP Asia II Topco II Pte. Ltd. (BCP) from the promoter and promoter group and consequent delisting cum open offer by BCP for shares of RSIL

  • Accounting
  • Aviation
  • Banking
  • Automotive
  • Agriculture
  • Construction and materials
  • Consumer goods and services
  • Energy
  • Financial services
  • Food and beverage
  • Gaming
  • Government and public policy
  • Healthcare
  • Insurance
  • Media
  • Natural resources
  • Oil and gas
  • Pharm and life sciences
  • Real estate
  • Tech and telecoms
  • Transport

MUMBAI

  • AZB House
    Peninsula Corporate Park
    Ganpatrao Kadam Marg
    Lower Parel
    Mumbai 400013
    India

T: + 91 22 4072 9999
F: +91 22 6639 6888
mumbai@azbpartners.com

  • One Forbes
    5th Floor
    VB Gandhi Marg
    Kala Ghoda
    Mumbai 400001
    India

T: + 91 22 4901 0600
F: +91 22 4901 0699
mumbai@azbpartners.com

  • 3rd & 4th Floor,
    Peninsula Tower
    Peninsula Corporate Park
    Ganpatrao Kadam Marg
    Lower Parel
    Mumbai 400013
    India

T: +91 22 4072 9999
F: +91 22 6639 6888
mumbai@azbpartners.com

DELHI

  • AZB House
    Plot No A-7 and A-8
    Sector 4
    Noida 201 301
    National Capital Region
    India

T: +91 120 417 9999
T: +91 120 692 3700
F: +91 120 417 9900
delhi@azbpartners.com

  • Unit No. 4B,
    4th Floor
    Hansalaya Building
    Barakhama Road
    New Delhi 110 001
    India

T: +91 11 4022 1500
delhi@azbpartners.com

  • Unitech Cyber House
    602, Tower-B
    6th Floor, Sector 39
    Gurgaon 122 001
    National Capital Region,
    India

T: +91 124 484 1300
F: +91 124 484 1319
delhi@azbpartners.com

BANGALORE

  • 7th Floor
    Embassy Icon
    Infantry Road
    Bangalore 560001
    India

T: +91 80 4240 0500
F: +91 80 2221 3947
bangalore@azbpartners.com

CHENNAI

  • AZB House
    A2, Withypool Complex
    No. 3 & 5, Boat Club Road
    R A Puram
    Chennai 600028, India

T: +91 44 2434 0145
chennai@azbpartners.com

PUNE

  • Onyx Towers
    1101-B 11th Floor
    North Main Road, Koregaon Park
    Pune 411001
    India

T: +91 20 6725 6666
F: +91 20 6725 6600
pune@azbpartners.com