Harsh Pais
Partner
London
Harsh Pais
Partner
London
Contact details
Harsh Pais is partner in our global corporate and M&A practice and heads our India-focussed corporate practice. He has a broad corporate M&A practice, focussing on large cross-border acquisitions (involving public and private targets), joint ventures and private capital investments, as well as providing strategic advice on corporate governance, securities laws and crisis management.
Harsh advises a wide range of international clients, both large multi-national corporations and private capital (private equity, sovereign wealth and pension funds) across a range of sectors, including regulated industries such as financial services/insurance, infrastructure, and TMT. He also acts for leading Indian corporates on their major outbound M&A matters.
His past experience includes serving as Corporate practice Co-Head at a leading Indian law firm and working at a major international law firm in New York. Harsh is qualified to practise in England & Wales, New York and India.
Expertise
Practices
Sectors
Qualifications
Professional
Admitted as solicitor, England & Wales: 2009
Admitted to the New York Bar: 2007
Admitted as advocate, qualified to practise in India: 2002
Academic
Columbia University School of Law, New York, LL.M. (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar): 2006
National Law School of India University, Bangalore, B.A.LL.B (Hons): 2002
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Expertise
Practices
Sectors
Qualifications
Professional
Admitted as solicitor, England & Wales: 2009
Admitted to the New York Bar: 2007
Admitted as advocate, qualified to practise in India: 2002
Academic
Columbia University School of Law, New York, LL.M. (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar): 2006
National Law School of India University, Bangalore, B.A.LL.B (Hons): 2002
Awards and recognition
Ranked individual for Corporate/M&A
Chambers Global 2022
Recommended, Global Leader, M&A
WWL 2022
Leading lawyer for Corporate M&A
IFLR1000 Guide
