Venkatesh Raman Prasad

Venkatesh (Venky) is a seasoned corporate lawyer with a core focus on M&A, Private Equity Investments, Joint Ventures, Strategic Alliances, Cross Border Investments, Regulatory issues for India entry, restructuring of domestic and global conglomerates across a broad spectrum of industries over the last two and a half decades.

Venky’s practice encompasses structuring and executing inbound and outbound investments, joint ventures, strategic alliances and SPVs. Venky routinely advises clients on foreign investment regimes, commercial arrangements, technology transfer, regulatory compliance in sectors including insurance, financial services, infrastructure, energy, IT/ITeS, AI, services, manufacturing, transportation (including EVs), climate change and energy transition. He is recognised as a solution oriented lawyer and has a wealth of experience in providing strategic advisory on the entire gamut of the transaction value chain, risk analysis and mitigation strategies.

Venky is a regular speaker at international and national conferences and workshops on issue of policy, law and regulation.

• Advised Allianz SE in relation to its exit from its existing in life and non-life insurance Indian joint ventures with Bajaj. This was one of the largest deal in the insurance space involving advising on complex and regulatory issues.
• Advised ONGC NTPC Green Limited (ONGPL) in its proposed acquisition of 100% stake in Ayana Renewable Power Private Limited. The transaction involved 16 operational and under construction renewable energy assets comprising of both Wind and Solar projects, aggregating to more than 1.5 GWs of power generation.
• Advised Ford Motor Company and its subsidiaries in relation to its proposed sale / transfer, to Tata Passenger Electric Mobility Limited, a Tata Motors Limited subsidiary, of Ford India’s Sanand vehicle manufacturing plant.
• Advised IBM Corporation and its subsidiaries in relation to the India leg of global separation of the Managed Infrastructure Services (MIS) business of IBM’s Global Technology Services segment into a new public company, Kyndryl Holdings LLC
• Advised L&T Semiconductor Technologies Limited, a subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro Limited in its 100% acquisition of Siliconch Systems Private Limited, a fabless semiconductor design company.

• B.A. (Hons.), University of Delhi (1994)
• LL. B, Campus Law Centre, University of Delhi (1997)
• LLM, New York University School of Law (2003)