Mr. Hardeep Sachdeva is a partner of AZB & Partners which has offices in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Pune. With more than 19 years’ experience in corporate, M&A, he advises Indian as well as international clients and is consistently rated as India’s leading corporate and M&A lawyer.
A leading practitioner in the field of M&A and corporate law advisory across several sectors including e-commerce, real estate, hospitality, retail, health care, technology, education, infrastructure, insurance, alcoholic beverages, automotive components and other industrial products, Mr. Sachdeva has been associated with several landmark M&A and private equity investment transactions in such sectors and has done pioneering work.
Mr. Sachdeva has been actively advising on various acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity investments and other funding transaction within and outside India in both listed and unlisted companies across various industries and sectors.
Mr. Sachdeva has been advising private equity and other investors on their investment strategies in India and involved in drafting and negotiating transaction documents for such investments and re-structuring of companies. Mr. Sachdeva advised on several restructuring of investments through multiple structures including swapping the investments in projects and exercising put/call options.
Mr. Sachdeva has been consistently ranked as leading lawyer in India by some of the most credible publications including the Legal 500 – Asia Pacific, the Chambers – Asia, the Expert Guide, the Who's Who Legal and others.
Mr. Sachdeva has been a member of governmental and other industry committees. Mr. Sachdeva is an economic graduate from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University and he was admitted to the Indian Bar in 1995. He is a member of the Bar Council of Delhi and Delhi High Court Bar Association. In 1995, he joined Ajay Bahl & Co., a Delhi-based corporate law firm which was one of the predecessor firms that formed AZB & Partners in the year 2004 and is one of the founding members of AZB & Partners.