Sunil Rai

Practice Areas

Sunil Rai is a senior partner in Dentons Rodyk’s Corporate practice group. He is Head of the Venture Tech & Emerging Growth Companies practice group and Co-Head of the Private Equity practice group. He is also the Singapore-India relationship partner focusing on outbound and inbound India-related transactions.

Sunil concentrates his practice in corporate and transactional matters encompassing investments and exits (buyouts, trade sales), domestic and cross border mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures, licensing, corporate governance, restructuring of entities, employment law matters including formulating stock option/ share award schemes (ESOP/ ESAS), establishing new businesses and assisting clients in drafting and reviewing contracts across a broad spectrum of various industries, verticals and government sectors. Sunil is particularly experienced in complex investment and venture-backed transactions involving multiple parties, various shareholders and parties across several jurisdictions. He enjoys acting for institutional investors (family offices, venture capital funds and private equity investors) making investments and divestments and start-ups/ early stage entities receiving investments at all stages of a company’s life-cycle - from seed stage to Series D and beyond across various verticals including Fin-Tech, Med-Tech, Prop-Tech, ESG-Tech, AI and data analytics.

Sunil has a strong interest in investment-related work (involving venture capital and private equity), building up the Middle East and India - Singapore and Indonesia deal corridor and also enthusiastically assisting in the growth of various SMEs, start-ups and private funds through establishing new ventures, handling legal issues, fund-raising, managing of investments and value creation.

Sunil has given several presentations and written articles on business structures, investment term sheets, directors’ duties, essentials of contracts, founder's disputes and amendments to Companies Act of Singapore and on the Variable Capital Company regime. He has also been actively involved in pro bono activities for several years including being a grassroots leader, an active mediator with Community Mediation Centre and Consumer Association of Singapore and also mentoring startups at Singapore University of Social Sciences.

Career

Senior Partner - Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLP (formerly Rodyk & Davidson LLP) (2022 - present)

Partner - Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLP (formerly Rodyk & Davidson LLP) (2005 - 2021)

Professional Memberships

Member, Law Society of Singapore

Member, Singapore Academy of Law

Member, Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Personal

People’s Association: 5 Year Long Service Award for Grassroots Volunteer Work, 2018

Consumer Association of Singapore: 10 Year Long Service Award, 2018

Community Mediation Centre: 5 Year Long Service Award, 2017