Ravi Nath, Esq.

RNClegal / Rajinder Narain & Co., one of India’s prestigious firms, is an avocat de confiance of Switzerland in India and regularly acts for major corporations, overseas banks and financial institutions based in the EU, US, Australia and South East Asia. The firm is consulted regularly by government entities and embassies of Israel and the EU, among others. Two of its partners were elevated as Chief Justices of High Courts and one was the president of Bar Association.

The firm’s core practice areas are: mergers and acquisitions; amalgamations; divestments; joint ventures; cross border investments; asset finance; cross  border leasing and securitisation; infrastructure projects power; telecom, oil and natural gas; construction; commercial contracts; banking; insurance; financial services; intellectual property rights; taxation; litigation; arbitration; and dispute resolution.

Ravi Nath, RNClegal / Rajinder Narain & Co. Partner and attorney-at-law, has been recognised several times by Euromoney and others, as one of India’s leading lawyers in the fields of mergers & acquisitions, aviation, asset finance, and cross border issues. His areas of expertise include: structured finance & aviation law; mergers & acquisitions; general commercial; and cross border transaction.Mr Nath is also listed in Who’s Who and Legal 500.

In the years 2003 to 2004 Mr Nath served as president of the Inter Pacific Bar Association. He was the chair of the Committee of International Bar Association, London, in 2008 and now serves on its Credentials Committee.

Some of well known companies that he advises include: ABN, Aercap, Airbus, Aircastle, Airlease, Altana, Avolon,Barclays, Bechtel, BMW, BNP Paribas, Boeing, Bombardier, Citibank, Coface, Dassault, Deutsche Bank, Embraer,Euler , Exim, GECAS, Hermes, Honda, ILFC, Sony, Standard Chartered, UBS ,US Ex-Im and United Technologies.

He has rich experience of having advised on a number of joint ventures and ventures in India for some of the aforesaid clients which ventures are successfully operating in India. He is frequently invited to address international gathering on investments in India.  

The Bar Association of India’s highest honour was conferred on Mr Nath by the chief justice and the law minister. At the invitation of the US State Department, Mr Nath, along with the president of the Bar Association of India, was invited to conduct a two day seminar on India’s commercial and corporate laws which was attended by many leading overseas lawyers. He was invited along with Mr P Chidambaram, finance minister and president of the Bar Association of India, to co-author a book on legal aspects of business in India.