Gaurav Dayal

About Gaurav Dayal

Gaurav is a M&A and PE Partner at the firm and has advised multiple private equity and venture capital funds, strategic corporate clients, multilateral agencies, public and private companies as well as their promoters, on a wide variety of their complex cross-border and domestic M&A and PE transactions.

Gaurav’s rich experience includes representing clients, across a range of sectors in India, in acquisitions, joint ventures, dispositions, minority and strategic investments and advising on full range of their operations and activities.

An alumnus of National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, Gaurav has around 14 years of experience working as a transactions lawyer in diverse sectors in India including Manufacturing, IT/ITeS, Food & Agriculture, FMCG, Financial Services & Technology, Pharma and Healthcare, Retail and E-Commerce, and Renewable Energy.

In addition to advising clients on corporate structuring, entry strategies, establishment of presence and exit mechanisms (including pre-IPO advisory), Gaurav also advises on regulatory issues to achieve their commercial objectives. Gaurav is regularly advising various MNCs and domestic companies on investment regime, foreign exchange regulations, securities regulations, general corporate and commercial matters, technology and data-protection issues.

Gaurav has advised LifeCell International (India’s largest stem cell bank) and Alphavector (Ninety One Bikes) in their recent fund raise from private equity investors. Gaurav has also recently represented BICS, a global communications provider, in its acquisition of MOBtexting, a Communications Platform-as-a-Service provider.

Prior to joining L&S, Gaurav was a part of the Corporate M&A and Private Equity practice at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas for more than 11 years.