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AZB & Partners
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AZB & Partners

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High Net Worth

Leading firm in High Net Worth 2025

Top figures

6

Offices

750

Company Size

2004

Established Year

Content provided by AZB & Partners

Contributions and articles

29 Global Practice Guides
14 Articles, Press releases, highlights

Overview

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AZB & Partners is a leading full-service Indian law firm with offices across six major cities: Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Pune, Chennai and Gift City. The firm is widely recognized for its expertise in cross-border M&A, private equity, banking and finance, restructuring and insolvency, competition law, dispute resolution, capital markets, infrastructure and regulatory advisory, advising global investors, financial institutions and corporations on complex transactions and high-stakes disputes.

Industry sectors (12)

  • Aviation
  • Defence
  • E–Commerce & Retail
  • Energy
  • FinTech & Digital
  • Infrastructure
  • Insurance
  • Microfinance
  • Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare & Life Sciences
  • Real Estate
  • Technology, Media & Telecommunications
  • Start–Ups & Emerging Companies

Capabilities (15)

  • Inter-generational wealth transfers through wills, trusts and gifts
  • Succession planning for luxury assets, collectibles and listed shareholdings
  • High-value philanthropic bequests and philanthropy planning
  • Family governance, constitutions and shareholder arrangements
  • Family disputes, settlements and inheritance matters
  • Cross-border regulatory and tax advisory for HNIs and NRIs
  • Structuring promoter holdings into family trusts with regulatory approvals
  • Business succession planning and inter-generational control transfers
  • Estate planning and execution for founders, promoters and CXOs
  • Advisory to private banks on fiduciary risk and trust structures
  • Hindu Undivided Family structuring and uncodified succession laws
  • Protection of vulnerable dependants including special needs planning
  • IP protection and family constitutions for multi-generational businesses
  • Acquisition and disposition of antiquities and high-value art
  • Worldwide asset structuring and cross-border estate planning

Clients (3)

  • Godrej Group
  • NRB Bearings
  • Appasamy Group

Key people

Provided by AZB & Partners

  • Zia J. Mody

    Managing Partner and co-founder

  • Ajay Bahl

    Managing Partner and co-founder

  • Anand Shah

    Senior Partner

  • Vaidhyanadhan Iyer

    Senior Partner

Work & experience

Provided by AZB & Partners

Known for its strategic, solution-driven approach to complex legal matters. We regularly advise global investors, financial institutions and corporations on high-value transactions, regulatory matters and precedent-setting deals across multiple sectors in India. our insistence on strategic advisory exacts an in depth understanding of and involvement with our clients' businesses and Industries. We engage not just individual businesses but also contribute to the country’s regulatory frameworks.

Notable work

Provided by AZB & Partners

Godrej Group – Family Settlement and Block Deal

2024CompletedIndia

Advised Godrej family branches on family settlement agreement and block deal sale of 12.65% shares of Godrej Industries.

NRB Bearings – Family Settlement

OngoingIndia

Advised on family settlement involving listed company shares, IPRs, real estate, and SEBI compliance.

Appasamy Group – Sale to Warburg Pincus

2024CompletedIndia

Advised sellers in sale of 100% of Appasamy Group companies to Warburg Pincus through a two-tranche PE transaction.

Ranked Offices at AZB & Partners

Provided by AZB & Partners

India - Head office

Maharashtra

AZB House Peninsula Corporate Park Ganpatrao Kadam Marg. Lower Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, 400013, Mumbai

Ranked Departments at AZB & Partners (1)

India

Ranked Individuals at AZB & Partners (2)

India

Top figures

6

Offices

750

Company Size

2004

Established Year

Content provided by AZB & Partners

Articles, Highlights and Press Releases

14 items provided by AZB & Partners

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