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I have spent more than two decades around transactions, businesses and the people who build them.

 

Along the way, I have seen corporate law from very different sides of the table — as a lawyer at some of India’s leading law firms, as a Partner advising on complex transactions, as senior in-house counsel working inside businesses, and now as the founder of my own practice. That journey has shaped the way I practice law today.

 

I don't believe clients come to corporate lawyers simply to be told what the law says. They usually come because something needs to get done — a company needs to enter India, an acquisition needs to close, an investor and founder need to find common ground, a joint venture needs to work commercially, or a contract needs to protect the business without making the deal impossible.

 

My job is to understand that commercial objective, identify where the real legal risks lie, and find a practical way forward.

 

In 2022, after more than 14 years with Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas and Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas — including seven years as a Partner in the General Corporate and M&A practice — I founded DB Legal Consultants.

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The idea was deliberately simple: build a focused corporate law practice where clients deal closely with experienced lawyers, advice is commercially grounded, and the quality of the work does not depend upon the size of the team deployed on a matter.

 

Today, much of my work sits at the intersection of transactions, capital and business strategy. I advise Indian and international businesses, founders and investors on M&A, private equity and venture capital transactions, joint ventures, business transfers, corporate restructuring, foreign investment, governance and commercial arrangements. I also work extensively with overseas businesses entering India — from structuring the investment and establishing the Indian entity to acquisitions, partnerships and ongoing corporate advisory.

 

Having spent part of my career in-house at OYO, Avaya GlobalConnect and Reliance Communications, I have also been on the other side of the lawyer-client conversation. It taught me something that continues to influence my work: technically correct advice is not particularly useful if it cannot be implemented by the business.

 

Increasingly, I also work with overseas law firms, tax and advisory firms that need experienced Indian corporate counsel for their clients, and act as Of Counsel on selected corporate and transactional mandates.

 

I am also the Exclusive India Member for Corporate Law Advisory in the Global Law Experts network.

 

After 20+ years, I still enjoy the same part of corporate law that attracted me to it in the first place: understanding how a business or transaction actually works, finding the problem that matters, and figuring out how to solve it.