Manan Lahoty

Practice Areas

Capital Markets

Career

Manan Lahoty is a Partner and specialises in capital markets.

Manan is qualified to practice in both England and Wales, and India. Prior to joining IndusLaw, he has worked with Shearman & Sterling in London and Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co and L&L Partners.

He has advised on some of the largest and prestigious Indian transactions in the domestic and international capital markets, including the public offering by Coal India, the public offering by Zomato - the first consumer tech unicorn listing in India, One97 Communications (PayTM) - the largest IPO in India, the CPSE Exchange Traded Fund - the first product of its kind in India, and the stake sale by Daiichi in Sun Pharmaceutical - the then largest stake “block deal” sale in India. Some of the other recent transactions include the initial public offerings by OYO Rooms, PolicyBazaar, Sapphire Foods, Lodha Developers, CarTrade, MobiKwik, Adani Wilmar, and Burger King; qualified institutions placements by Lodha Developers, Burger King India, Apollo Hospitals and CreditAccess Grameen, and De-SPAC and listing of Gig2Capital and Glocal. He also provides advice on securities law matters to leading domestic and international investment banks in India, such as BoA-Merrill Lynch, Citi, Deutsche, Kotak, Goldman Sachs, JM Financial, Axis Capital, ICICI Securities, Morgan Stanley, Nomura and UBS.

In addition, Manan’s practice includes providing advice on pre-offering corporate restructuring, corporate governance and other corporate and securities law matters.

Manan has been recognized as a leading capital markets lawyer in India and consistently included in the top tier by several independent surveys and directories. He is listed in “Band 1” by Chambers and Partners, which described him as “one of the best capital markets lawyers in India”, “very articulate, and technically very sound” and as “a solution provider who excels in client handling”. Chambers and Partners has also praised him for cross-border expertise.

In addition, Manan is highly ranked by IFLR1000, Asialaw Leading Lawyers, Legal Era, Legal500, Who’s Who Legal, Chambers Asia Pacific & Global Guide, and India Business Law Journal. He has also been named one of India's Top 100 Great People Managers by Great Manager Institute in the Forbes India Magazine.

Professional Memberships

Bar Council of Delhi & Bar Council of England and Wales