*To co-lead firm’s practice in South
*The newly added team to bolster its practice and industry expertise
Mumbai, 19 December 2022: Vertices Partners, one of the leading first-generation law firms, announced a further expansion in its partnership with Siddharth Raja merging his practice along with his team into the firm. He joins as a Senior Partner at the Vertices Partners’ Bengaluru office and will co-lead the firm’s practice in the south.
Siddharth is a senior lawyer with almost two decades of experience in Private Equity/Venture Capital, Mergers and Acquisitions and Joint Venture transactions. His expertise also includes cross-border transactions in this space of legal advisory.
A lawyer–turned–entrepreneur, prior to joining Vertices Partners, Siddharth had co-founded Samvad Partners. Continuing his entrepreneurial journey, he later co-founded Saakshya Law where he worked until his latest and lateral move to join the Vertices Partners. In the past, he had also worked in the Hong Kong office of O’Melveny & Myers, an international law firm where he specialized in cross-border mergers and acquisitions. An alumnus of National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bengaluru and the University of Warwick, he has also been Partner at Udwadia & Udeshi and Senior Partner and Executive Director at Argus Partners.
Siddharth’s joining Vertices Partners comes after the joining of Rajat Agarwal in Banking & Finance as well as Disputes Resolution Practice in the Mumbai office. Other partners who have joined recently include Manasi Pathak Verma, Regulatory & Secretarial Compliances Partner in Delhi NCR offices, and Jayesh Karandikar, Real Estate Partner in Mumbai headquarters.
With the recent senior level joining, Vertices Partners has built a leadership team comprising approximately 75 members across Mumbai, Bengaluru and Gurugram, bringing in extensive experience and expertise in multiple disciplines.
Having completed six years of operations, Vertices Partners continues to advise clients in diverse sectors including D2C / Consumer, Financial Services, Healthcare/Pharma, Manufacturing, Technology, including Agri-tech, EdTech, FinTech, Media and Entertainment, Hospitality, Retail, and Insurance, amongst others.
Commenting on the expansion, Vinayak Burman, Founder & Managing Partner at Vertices Partners said on behalf of the Partnership, “Siddharth brings with him a seniority and pedigree that further bolster the partnerships’ strength in terms of practice and industry expertise. This addition will be of tremendous tangible and intangible value for our focus on the relevant practice areas, cross-border, pan-India, as well as at a local – regional level. Our clients stand to benefit from the breadth and depth of knowledge that our core brings with a collective of hundred human experience years of professional expertise amongst the partnership. With Siddharth, Rajat, Manasi and Jayesh coming onboard, we are poised to meet the advisory requirements of new-age and growth-focussed entrepreneurs from seed-stage to pre-IPO level. We are delighted to welcome all to Vertices family and excited to kick off the next phase of growth.”
Siddharth Raja, Senior Partner, Vertices Partners said, “I am excited to begin my journey with Vertices Partners. Our respective practices, teams, and cultures are an ideal fit for each other. Together we will now have the foremost PE / VC and M&A practices in the country — the undeniably strongest and cutting-edge Indian and cross-border law firm, delivering sustainable value to our clients. Merging with Vertices Partners is a part of my deepest affirmation of building a legacy practice collectively as a firm, far into the future. My commitment to achieving that objective is steadfast; and, daresay infectious.”
