Ashraya Rao 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). With over 15 years of experience, his practice focuses on private and public M&A, private equity, cross-border transactions, strategic alliances and complex advisory on Indian corporate, securities, and foreign investment laws. Ashraya has been recognised as a ‘Notable Practitioner for M&A’ by IFLR (2018 to 2024), ‘Key M&A Lawyer’ by Legal500 (2023 and 2024) and ‘Recommended for M&A’ by RSG India Report 2019. 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.