Mr Aninda Pal > DSK Legal > Mumbai, India > Lawyer Profile

DSK Legal
1203, One World Centre, Tower 2B,
Floor 12B, 841, Senapati Bapat Marg,
Elphinstone Road, Mumbai – 400013, India
India

Work Department

Corporate Commercial, Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity, Venture Capital, Joint Ventures and Corporate Restructurings (including Insolvency)

Position

Partner

Career

Aninda is a partner at the firm’s Mumbai office. He is a part of the Corporate Commercial, M&A and PE-VC practice group and his core areas of practice include mergers & acquisitions (in-bound and out-bound), private equity, venture capital, joint ventures, corporate restructurings, regulatory advisory and general corporate. He advises clients on all aspects of transactions – structuring from an Indian legal & regulatory perspective, strategizing transactions, due diligence (including anti-corruption), documentation, negotiation and closing. He advises a range of clients across industries on a diverse range of cross-border and domestic transactions be it, buy side or sell side. The kind of industries he has advised include manufacturing (across diverse sectors), FMCG, pharma, retail, infrastructure (including roads and ports), power/ energy (including renewable energy), health-care, hospitality, IT and e-commerce.

He also has extensive non-transactional experience and advices clients on corporate, securities & foreign exchange laws, setting up of new business, assisting in day-to-day business issues, raising funds and securing approvals from various authorities including RBI, SEBI, MIB, MHA.

Prior to joining DSK, he was a partner with HSA Advocates, before which he worked as a Counsel at Trilegal, Mumbai, as a senior member of the corporate practice group – where he led and was part of teams which won ‘deal of the year awards’.

Languages

English, Hindi & Bengali

Memberships

Aninda is registered with the The Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa

Education

Aninda holds a degree in B.S.L; LL.B from Symbiosis Society’s Law College, University of Pune

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 BhattacharyaHemang Parekh and Ajay Shaw and Harvinder Singh.