Vaibhav Parikh

Partner @Nishith Desai Associates

Bangalore, IN

Partner in-charge of Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Practice and also head of the Bangalore office. Also heads the Fund Investments practice group. He is a member of firm’s executive committee.He has a wide range of experience in corporate and technology transactions. He has advised several private equity and venture capital funds in their investments, specifically in e-commerce, technology, media and life sciences industry. He also has significant experience in M&A transactions including advising on one of the India’s largest e-commerce transaction till date. He has been passionately involved in setting up operations and raising finance for several start-up companies. He is actively involved in the Intellectual Property Practice and is in charge of industry focus group for Technology sector. He has advised many leading Internet/e-commerce companies in their operations from a legal and regulatory stand point. He has been recommended as outstanding lawyer in Tier one for Technology Media Telecommunication (TMT) and as an expert in TMT and competition law, by Legal 500 in 2015 and 2014 respectively. He has been ranked number one for Technology Media Telecommunication by Chambers and Partners in 2015. Chamber and Partners also stated that he is regularly sought after for his extensive experience in advising on technology matters, with an emphasis on corporate transactions. He has been nominated as one of Leading Lawyer in Private Equity Practice by in the year 2013. He has also been nominated as one of the world\'s leading practitioners in ‘Who\'s Who Legal’ for Regulatory Communications. He has authored several papers and lectured at several prestigious gatherings on a worldwide basis including at VCCircle and NASSCOM. He has represented NASSCOM at a WTO symposium at Geneva for presenting a paper on ‘Movement of Natural Persons’. He is a Charter Member of TiE, Bangalore Chapter.

Government law College, Mumbai

Juris Doctor (J.D.), Law