Mr Sharath Chandrasekhar > DSK Legal > Mumbai, India > Lawyer Profile
DSK Legal Offices
1203, One World Centre, Tower 2B,
Floor 12B, 841, Senapati Bapat Marg,
Elphinstone Road, Mumbai – 400013, India
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Mr Sharath Chandrasekhar
Work Department
Corporate & Commercial Laws; Mergers & Acquisitions; Real Estate; Private Equity and Venture Capital
Position
Partner
Career
Sharath specializes in the areas of Corporate Commercial work, including Private Equity, Mergers & Acquisitions and general corporate advisory, as well as Banking & Finance, and is a Bangalore based Partner in the Corporate and M&A group, and Debt & Restructuring group of the firm.
He has worked extensively in the services, banking, fin-tech, hospitality, power, healthcare, bio-technology, manufacturing, software and e-commerce industries, advising on a wide range of issues from acquisitions to structuring transactions, and has advised various high profile clients including large banks, investment funds and large companies as well as start-up companies.
Sharath’s recent key transactions include advising a large Europe headquartered MNC on its global acquisition of a large MNC conglomerate, advising a sovereign wealth fund in their investment into the healthcare sector as well advising an American multi-national company primarily engaged in operating a social networking website in its first acquisition of an Indian company. He has earlier advised on the legal and regulatory matters and was involved in the structuring, negotiation and documentation for financing a pioneering airport privatization project. Sharath has also ideated, structured and managed a large structured finance portfolio.
He is registered with the Bar Council of Karnataka and the New York State Bar. He has a B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) degree from National Law School of India University, Bangalore, and holds an LL.M. degree from Duke University School of Law, NC, USA.
Languages
English, Hindi and Kannada
Memberships
Sharath is a member of Bar Council, Karnataka and New York State Bar, USA
Education
Sharath has done his B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) from NLSIU, Bangalore and LL.M. from Duke University, NC, USA.
Lawyer Rankings
India > Private equity and investment funds
DSK Legal acts for private equity managers and limited partners in the establishment of alternative investment funds, as well as advising domestic and foreign venture capital funds across various jurisdictions, including India and Mauritius. Managing partner Anand Desai leads the team and advises on private equity and hedge fund transactions, in addition to disputes arising between funds and investee companies. Sharath Chandrasekhar acts for startups and investment funds across the banking, hospitality and fintech sectors on transaction structuring mandates, while Aninda Pal handles a range of domestic and cross-border private equity and venture capital deals. Other key contacts in the group include Aparajit Bhattacharya, Hemang Parekh and Ajay Shaw and Harvinder Singh.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Antitrust and competition
- Banking and finance
- Corporate and M&A
- Life sciences and healthcare
- Projects and energy
- TMT
- White-collar crime
- WTO/international trade
- Data protection
- Dispute resolution: arbitration
- City focus: National Capital Region: NCR > Intellectual property
- Private equity and investment funds
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Aviation (including aerospace and defence)
- Capital markets
- Labour and employment