Siddharth Raja
Armed with extensive experience in private equity, venture capital and mergers and acquisitions as well as expertise in corporate finance and general commercial law, Siddharth has represented the Firm in several transactions illustratively such as:
- A leading foreign private equity investor's investment in a Bangalore-based food processing company
- Investments by one of the world's foremost venture capital funds backed by the world's leading media organization in an IT security systems, products and solutions company, a pure play digital security start up and in other entities in the IT / ITES and products space
- Multiple investments by a foreign private equity player in the hospitality and real estate sector
- Britain's leading airport retail player in its joint venture in India for the Delhi and other airports
- An emerging Indian IT enterprise in its joint ventures in China in the IT training / outsourcing and the IT services sectors, respectively
- A Bangalore-headquartered engineering, procurement and construction service company in power transmission and distribution in an investment of US$ 20 million by one of India's leading private equity investors.
Siddharth's representative clients include IDG Ventures India, Alpha Airports Plc., Geodesic Techniques, Paracor Capital Advisors, Inventus and NEA-IndoUS Ventures amongst others. Prior to co-founding the Firm, Siddharth was a partner at a leading pan-India law firm heading that firm's Bangalore and Chennai offices between August 2004 and October 2005. His international work experience spans close to 3 years as an Associate in the Hong Kong office of the international law firm, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, between 2001 and 2004, where he specialized in cross-border M&A. Before that, he was an associate at one of India's leading law firms in Mumbai. Siddharth has a distinguished academic record having obtained a B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore (1997) and an LL.M. in International Economic Law from the University of Warwick Law School, UK (1998), where he was a Foreign & Commonwealth Office Chevening Scholar and a J. N. Tata Scholar. Siddharth is admitted to practice law in India and in England & Wales (currently not practising).
Siddharth has previously been a visiting faculty member at the Department of Management Studies of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore the oldest management studies faculty in India where he taught a course on Business Law in 2006 and 2007. Siddharth is also one of the Consulting Editors of "Business Law Reports", a leading report designed to cater to the business and legal fraternity and published by Manupatra.
"Leading figure Siddharth Raja 'takes the time to understand the subject and is willing to devote time and energy to help his clients...´" Chambers Asia 2009
Siddharth Raja is in Band 1 among private equity lawyers in India. Chambers Asia 2009