Gautham Srinivas

Practice Areas

Securities, Capital Markets and Corporate

Career

Gautham Srinivas is a Partner in the Securities, Capital Markets and Corporate practice group in the NCR office – Delhi, Noida and Gurgaon since 2016. Prior to joining Khaitan & Co, Gautham was a partner at Krishnamurthy & Co (New Delhi) and at Link Legal after working at Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co for approximately 9 years.

Gautham has represented issuers, investment banks, and selling shareholders on various initial public offerings (IPO), qualified institutions placement (QIP), rights offering, high yield debt offerings, global depository receipts (GDR) offering among others for both Regulation S and 144A deals.

Gautham has also advised clients on relevant aspects in mergers and amalgamations, private equity investments and other areas of corporate law practice.

Awards & Recognitions:

- Chambers and Partners Asia-Pacific 2025 - Ranked Lawyer

- Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024 - Recommended and Key Lawyer

- Chambers and Partners Asia-Pacific 2024 - Ranked Lawyer (Up and Coming)

- IFLR 1000 2022 – Notable Practitioner

Professional Memberships

Bar Council of Karnataka

Publications

Gautham has authored the following contributions:

• Co-authored the article titled “Indirect Acquisitions under the Takeover code: The Fairness-Efficiency Spectrum and Lessons for Regulation” that was published in the NLS Business Law Review in 2020.

• Gautham was a member of the visiting faculty at National Law University, Delhi for their seminar courses having taught on topics related to securities law and diligence related aspects.

• Speaker at various conferences in relation to due diligence exercise to be undertaken for initial public offering.

• He has also worked with various industry representatives on representations to the government, dealing with suggestions relating to the proposed legal regime on overseas direct listing of Indian companies. He has also co-authored an article in this regard on Mondaq. Apart from this, he has also been quoted in news articles from time to time, pertaining to various legal updates relating to the capital markets practice.

Work Highlights

In the last four years, some of the key transactions Gautham has advised on include the initial public offerings of Awfis Space Solutions Limited, EPACK Durable Limited, Innova Captab Limited, Happy Forgings Limited, Updater Services Limited, Ideaforge Technology Limited, Campus Activewear Limited, Syrma SGS Technology Limited, Tracxn Technologies Limited, G R Infraprojects Limited, Tatva Chintan Pharma Chem Limited and MTAR Technologies Limited, and the rights issue of Udaipur Cement Works Limited, RSWM Limited and Sundaram Finance Holdings Limited. He has advised / advising on the exits / proposed exits of large institutional investors from various companies including Delhivery Limited and Concord Biotech Limited during their initial public offerings. He has also advised large private equity funds on listed company exits. He has advised on the qualified institutions placements of Varun Beverages Limited, KEI Industries Limited, Max Estates Limited, Tatva Chintan Pharma Chem Limited, RHI Magnesita India Limited and V-Mart Retail Limited. Some of the key transactions he is advising on include the proposed initial public offerings of Aditya Infotech Limited, Saatvik Green Energy Limited, SFC Environmental Technologies, Ganesh Consumer Products and PMEA Solar Tech Solutions.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

India

Education