Dentons Rodyk offer an extensive range of domestic and cross-border advice to founders, investors, start-ups and emerging growth companies. The team assists clients from the life-cycle of companies and incorporation of entities, to investment/ subscription agreements, shareholders’ agreements and ancillary agreements and eventually leading exits via IPO or trade sale. The team is also well known for its specialised ESG expertise, as well as carbon emissions and carbon trading advice for relevant industries. Sunil Rai co-heads the practice focusing on outbound and inbound India-related transactions while Ray Chiang’s main areas of practice include mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and venture technology. S Sivanesan assists on venture capital, venture technology and investment funds.
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Testimonials
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- 'The team is distinctly founder-centric: practical onboarding checklists, plain-English explainers for term-sheet economics and dilution, step-by-step closing calendars, and disciplined version control. On our recent mandates, they protected essentials, preserved founder rapport, and closed at pace.'
- 'Ray Chiang stands out for availability, founder handholding, and commercial pragmatism. He is present when it matters—responding quickly, framing options with clear consequences, and guiding first-time founders through cap-table math, preferences, consent rights, and board mechanics without grandstanding.'
- 'Commercially-minded, responsive and always ready to offer well-thought-out solutions.'
- 'Client-focused and result-oriented and provides valuable experience in this space.'
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Leading partners
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Practice head
Sunil Rai; Ray Chiang
Other key lawyers
S Sivanesan