Mr Rabindra Jhunjhunwala > Khaitan & Co LLP > Mumbai, India > Lawyer Profile
Khaitan & Co LLP Offices
ONE WORLD CENTER, 13TH FLOOR
TOWER 1, 841 SENAPATI BAPAT MARG
MUMBAI 400 013
India
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Mr Rabindra Jhunjhunwala
Work Department
Corporate & Commercial, Joint Venture & Collaboration, Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity, Regulatory
Position
Partner
Career
Rabindra Jhunjhunwala is a Partner and a senior member in the Corporate & Commercial Practice Group in the Mumbai office. He started with the Firm in its Kolkata office in 1990 and co-founded the Mumbai office in 2001.
He heads the Firm’s IBA, France desk and Germany desk initiatives. He also sits as a Conference Coordinator Asia Pacific on the IBA Corporate and M&A Committee. He has been elected as vice president of the Bar Association of India.
His practice spans a range of areas, including domestic and cross-border M&A, PE investment, transaction documentation work and advises his clients regularly on all aspects of foreign investments (both inbound and outbound) and regulatory approvals. He has advised several multinationals and Indian companies on complex and big-ticket M&A transactions.
Awards & Recognitions:
- Who’s Who Legal has recommended him in their M&A and Governance Global Guide 2020, 2021 & 2023.
- Who’s Who Legal has recommended him as ‘Thought Leader’ for India
- Ranked consistently by Chambers and Partners Asia Pacific 2017-2024 for Corporate/M&A work.
- Ranked by Chambers and Partners Global 2022, 2023 and 2024 for Corporate/M&A work.
- Ranked consistently by Legal 500 for Corporate/M&A work from 2017- 2023.
- Endorsed as a Leading Lawyer in India – Highly regarded by IFLR1000 consistently from 2017- 2023.
- Ranked by Asialaw Leading Lawyers as one of the Leading Lawyers in Mergers & Acquisitions consistently from 2019- 2023.
- Asia Legal Business have listed him as ALB India Super 50 Lawyers 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2024.
- India Business Law Journal lists him as a Legal Icon in The A list of India’s top 100 lawyers consistently from 2016- 2023.
- Law Wiser have listed him as one of the Super 30 Most Influential Law Firm Professionals of 2023.
- Legal Era Leading Lawyer Champion in Corporate & M&A 2022 & 2023.
- Intelligent Legal Solutions (Ipleaders)-recommended him as top ten corporate lawyer in India 2017.
- Lexis Nexis have listed him as 100 Legal Luminaries of India.
- India M&A Atlas Awards who have appraised him and his team as the Private Equity Law Team of the Year.
- Lawyer Monthly who included him in its leading LAWYER 100 list for 2011.
- RSG Consulting who have listed him in the established second generation of Indian Lawyers in the RSG India report 2010 & 2019.
- Asian Legal Business as the only Indian lawyer in the Movers & Shakers section of its cover story, ALB Hot 100: the Hottest Lawyers of 2008.
- Meritas, an international alliance of law firms, has also honoured Rabindra in April 2009 for his distinguished service to the organisation.
Memberships
- Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa
- Bar Association, Calcutta High Court
- Incorporate Law Society, Calcutta High Court
- High Court Club, Calcutta High Court
- The Trade Mark Registry and The Patent Office, India
- International Bar Association
Education
B.A. LL.B., (Hons.), National Law School of India University, Bangalore (1999)
Lawyer Rankings
India > Corporate and M&A
Steered by Aakash Choubey, Rajat Mukherjee and Ganesh Prasad, ‘client-centric’ Khaitan & Co LLP
routinely operates across a plethora of sectors, from insurance and e-commerce to healthcare and gaming, regularly advising on private and public M&A, restructuring and compliance work. Increasingly the department is involved in various transactions embedded in the fields of tech, renewable energy and electric vehicles. Choubey excels at managing Indian corporate and investment laws, Mukherjee is well-versed in the pharma space and Prasad’s capabilities include a range of transactions and corporate restructurings. Mumbai’s Haigreve Khaitan is frequently entrusted by a litany of clients, from Indian promoters to international companies, while Rabindra Jhunjhunwala bolsters the practice with his considerable strengths in foreign investments and regulatory approvals. New Delhi’s Bharat Anand is highly experienced at handling joint ventures and M&S across a stable of sectors.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Antitrust and competition
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets
- Corporate and M&A
- Data protection
- Dispute resolution: arbitration
- Dispute resolution: litigation
- Insurance
- Intellectual property > Intellectual property
- Labour and employment
- City focus: Chennai > Leading firms
- Life sciences and healthcare
- Private client
- Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Projects and energy
- Real estate and construction
- Tax
- TMT
- White-collar crime