Bharucha & Partners

Firm Details: 

Key Contacts: M P Bharucha (Founder, Senior Partner), Alka Bharucha (Senior Partner), DP Singh (Senior Partner), Justin M Bharucha (Managing Partner), Vandana Pai (Partner, Head - Investment Funds Practice)
Number of partners: 12
Number of lawyers: 100
Languages: English, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Punjabi, Konkani, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali

Firm Overview:
Bharucha & Partners was founded on enduring principles of professional ethics and excellence. The firm now has offices in 3 cities with 12 partners and over 100 associates who offer a mix of rich experience, creativity, and the energy of youth. Each partner has a wealth of experience handling complex commercial transactions or disputes and associates are selected as sharing the qualities and vision of the partners. An expertise in corporate and commercial practice along with mergers and acquisitions, commercial litigation, international and domestic arbitration, investment funds, laws of crime, governance, ethics, and anti-corruption, banking and finance, project finance, capital markets and securities law, HR and employment law, regulatory and compliance, intellectual property, insolvency resolution, restructuring, and stressed assets, competition and antitrust, direct tax, indirect tax, real estate, private client, social impact and policy, and general corporate advisory is well recognised. The firm counts leading international and Indian corporate houses, banks, financial institutions, and funds as clients. The firm advises clients on domestic and cross-border issues across sectors including banks and NBFCs, defence and aerospace, energy (conventional and renewable), fintech, food and beverages (including water), ports and logistics, private clients, real estate, roads, securities and financial markets intermediaries, technology, media, and telecommunications, and trade (wholesale and retail).

Main Areas of Practice: 

Banking & Finance:  

Key Clients: State Bank of India, Profectus Capital, Edelweiss Group

Contacts: Alka Bharucha, Justin Bharucha, Vivek Mishra
Emails: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions:  

Key Clients: The Aditya Birla Group, General Motors, JM Baxi Group

Contacts: Alka Bharucha, Justin Bharucha
Emails: [email protected], [email protected]

Dispute Resolution:  

Key Clients: ITC Limited, Vodafone Idea Limited, Sony Pictures Network India Private Limited

Contacts: MP Bharucha, Karthik Somasundram, Sneha Jaisingh, Sudeshna Roy
Emails: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

Investment Funds:  

Key Clients: General Atlantic, Apollo Global, Ivanhoé Cambridge

Contacts: Vandana Pai, Swathi Girimaji
Emails: [email protected], [email protected]

Capital Markets & Securities Law:  

Key Clients: Inga Advisors, Axis Bank Limited, The Federal Bank

Contacts: Vishnu Dutt, Mehul Jain
Emails: [email protected], [email protected]

Governance, Ethics & Anti-Corruption:  

Key Clients: Telenor, Ashok Daga, DHFL

Contacts: Sonam Gupta, Sneha Jaisingh
Emails: [email protected], [email protected]

TMT & Intellectual Property:  

Key Clients: Sony Pictures Network India, Vodafone Idea Limited, Minnow Films Limited

Contacts: Kaushik Moitra, Karthik Somasundram
Emails: [email protected], [email protected]

HR & Employment Law: 

Key Clients: General Motors, FirstSourceSolutions Limited, Tata Communications Limited

Contacts: Justin Bharucha, Vandana Pai
Emails: [email protected], [email protected]

Infrastructure: 

Key Clients: J. M. Baxi Group, Macquarie Fund, SREI Infrastructure Finance Limited, Adani Enterprises Limited

Contacts: Alka Bharucha, Justin Bharucha
Emails: [email protected], [email protected]

Sector Experience: 

1. Banks & NBFCs;
2. Defence & Aerospace;
3. Energy (Conventional & Renewable);
4. Fintech;
5. Food & Beverages (including Water);
6. Ports & Logistics;
7. Private Clients;
8. Real Estate;
9. Roads;
10. Securities & Financial Markets Intermediaries;
11. Technology, Media, & Telecommunications; and
12. Trade (Wholesale & Retail).

Offices: 

MUMBAI
13th Floor, Free Press House
Free Press Journal Marg
Nariman Point, Mumbai 400 021. India

Tel: +91 22 2289 9300
Fax: +91 22 2282 3900

NEW DELHI
2nd Floor, Legacy
42, Okhla Industrial Estate III
New Delhi 110 020. India

Tel: +91 11 4593 9300
Fax: +91 11 4593 9399

BENGALURU
COWRKS, Purva Premiere
Residency Road
Bengaluru, Karnataka 560025. India

Tel: +91 80 4614 5993
Fax: +91 80 4614 5994