Bio

Ashraya Rao is a Partner in the Corporate, M&A and Private Equity Practice Group in the Mumbai office. Ashraya is dual-qualified in India (Advocate) and England & Wales (Solicitor of Senior Courts). Ashraya has advised several clients on private and public M&As, cross border M&As, private equity, corporate restructurings, insolvency M&A, strategic alliances/JVs and advisory on all aspects of Indian corporate, securities and foreign investment laws. Ashraya has been recognised as a ‘Notable Practitioner for M&A’ by IFLR (consistently from 2018 to 2022) and ‘Recommended for M&A’ by RSG (India Report 2019) and Legal500 (2023). Ashraya has also worked with Slaughter and May, London as a ‘visiting lawyer’ from September 2015 to March 2016, where he was involved in cross-border M&A and private equity transactions.