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Sovereign advisory

Ramu Ramaswamy is a Partner in Dentons’ Paris Sovereign Advisory group.

Ramu focuses his practice on supporting Governments and Government-related entities on various matters. Ramu works on advising Governments on both contentious and non-contentious matters. Ramu has recently been advising Governments on asset recoveries. Ramu has also non-contentious infrastructure law and has spent most of his career advising on the development of large-scale energy (including oil and gas) and infrastructure projects all around the world (notably South America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and India). His expertise, both as an in-house and a private-practice lawyer, stems from many years of drafting and negotiating projects and associated commercial agreements making him one of the most sought after international commercial lawyers in his areas of expertise.

Ramu advises governments and public-sector entities in addition to private sector clients. Currently a lot of his work is in Africa where he operates in both Francophone and Anglophone countries. Ramu’s diverse experience gives him a very unique skill set and ability to quickly identify his clients’ needs and place them in a commercial context to get projects done.

Joined Dentons in 2018 Of Counsel, Orrick, Sutcliffe & Herrington LLP, Paris, 2015-2017 Of Counsel, Eversheds LLP, Paris, 2012-2015 Senior Associate, Norton Rose LLP, London, 2007-2011 Associate, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, 2006-2007 Legal Counsel, Total S.A, 2003-2006 Legal Counsel, Enron, 1999-2002 Advocate India, 1998-1999

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Admitted to the Paris Bar, 2019 Registered as a foreign lawyer, Paris, 2013-2019 Solicitor to the High Court , England and Wales, 2004 Advocate to the High Court, Delhi, 1999

University of Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne, 2003, LL.M., French and European Laws London School of Economics, 1998, MSc, Criminal Law and Criminology National Law School of India University, 1997, B.A. LL.B (Hons.)