Phoenix Legal

General Corporate, M&A, Private Equity and Venture Capital

Partner

Sumit Sinha is a Partner in the Firm's General Corporate, M&A, Private Equity and Venture Capital practice and operates out of the firm’s New Delhi office. He has about 20 years of experience. His areas of practice include mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity and venture capital transactions, corporate restructuring and reorganizations and general corporate and commercial transactions. Sumit has been advising domestic and international clients, including private equity funds, venture capital funds, banks and financial institutions and businesses across a range of sectors.

He has significant transactional experience and has been actively involved in some of the significant M&A and private equity deals. He has been appreciated by clients for his hands-on approach and for providing solution-oriented sound legal advice.

Sumit has previously worked with Trilegal, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (erstwhile Amarchand Mangaldas), J Sagar Associates and DMD Advocates. He completed his B.S.L. LL.B. from Symbiosis Law College, Pune, in 2006. He has featured in the Forbes India Legal Powerlist 2022 and 2023 as one of the “Top 100 Individual Lawyers” (Above 10 Years Experience) and recognized as amongst “India’s Future Legal Leaders” by India Business Law Journal in 2020. Sumit was recently ranked amongst the country’s top 5 legal advisers for private equity and M&A transactions by Venture Intelligence in their Legal Advisors Standing 2024. Additionally, Sumit has also been recognised by Legal500 and IFLR1000.

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Symbiosis Society's Law College (2006).