Practice Areas
• Corporate / Mergers & Acquisitions
• Financial Services
• Funds
• Private Equity & Venture Capital
• Regulatory & Securities
• E–Commerce & Retail
• FinTech & Digital
• Infrastructure
• Insurance
Career
Ashwath Rau has over 21 years' experience across a diverse range of practices, including Corporate / M&A, Investment Funds & Asset Management, Private Equity, Joint Ventures, Financial Regulatory, Corporate Governance and General Corporate Advisory. His clients include leading multinational corporations, private equity houses, banks, and other financial services companies, as well as companies in the infrastructure, IT & ITES and telecom & digital services sectors.
Professional Memberships
• Member, SEBI committees / working groups for the review of regulations relating to mutual funds and foreign portfolio investors (2018 – 19)
• Member, Investment Funds Committee, International Bar Association (2014 – 2018)
• Member, Limited Partners + Manage in India Council, Indian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (IVCA) (2018 – Present)
• Invitee, SEBI Working Group on redrafting the SEBI (Foreign Portfolio Investors) Regulations, 2014, under the Chairmanship of Shri. Harun R. Khan (2018 – Present)
• Invitee, SEBI Working Group to reconcile the SEBI (Mutual Funds) Regulations, 1996 with the Companies Act, 2013 and the Insolvency and the Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (2018 – Present)
• Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa (1999)
