Corporate/Commercial: Chennai
Asia-Pacific Guide 2025 : India
Band 1
Email address
[email protected]Contact number
+91 44 4930 6600About
Provided by JSA
Ranked as a leading M&A advisor in India, JSA draws upon its experience of working on transactions across industries and deal volume to provide integrated solution-oriented advice. Over many years, we have built considerable institutional knowledge, advising on several domestic and cross border transactions. What sets us apart is our ability to provide mature, and market accepted advisory, navigate regulatory hurdles, and being solution oriented.
Diverse clients: Our commercial and innovative approach and ease of interactions resonate with clients eager to do business in India. Our clients include premier Indian industrial houses and fortune 500 multinational corporations across industries. Our extensive global reach, combined with international deal execution skills and domestic market knowledge, provides clients with access to 120 partners and a further 400 lawyers with global and domestic capability.
Our team has worked on over 300 deals in the past one-year valuing over US$ 50 billion – amongst one of the highest for Indian law firms.
Our bench strength
With over 78 partners and more than 235 attorneys across the 7 locations, we boast of one of the largest practices in the Indian private Equity Space.
Chambers Review
Pan-India law firm JSA's Chennai office is well-recognised in the market. The firm's scope of work includes M&A, private equity investments and other commercial arrangements. The team is noted for its experience handling large and complex transactions.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"They provide personalised, contextual advice and pragmatic guidance."
"I particularly value their responsiveness, and equally important is the efficiency with which I can communicate and get my key points across. They respect our time and respond to our priorities."
"They provide personalised, contextual advice and pragmatic guidance."
"I particularly value their responsiveness, and equally important is the efficiency with which I can communicate and get my key points across. They respect our time and respond to our priorities."
Notable Practitioners
Varun Sriram is a Chennai-based corporate legal specialist with a solid reputation. He assists clients with a range of matters, such as M&A and joint ventures and fund formation.
"Varun is an excellent advisor and never shies away from saying what is right for the business, irrespective of whether it sounds good or bad. He demonstrates a great amount of patience when needed."
"He is a strong subject matter expert."
Bhavya Sriramsits on the JSA team as partner focused on employment law, real estate and commercial matters. She advises global investment companies and corporations as well as healthcare specialists on a range of commercial needs.
"She is very trustworthy."