Sunil Rai

Practice Areas

Sunil is a senior partner in Dentons Rodyk’s Corporate practice group. He is co-head of the Venture Tech & Emerging Growth Companies practice group. He is also the Singapore-India relationship partner focusing on outbound and inbound India-related transactions.

He concentrates his practice in corporate and commercial areas encompassing domestic and cross border M&A share and asset transactions, joint ventures, investments and divestments, licensing, corporate governance, restructuring of entities, employment law matters including formulating stock option/ share award schemes (ESOP/ ESAS), establishing new businesses and assisting clients in drafting and reviewing contracts across a broad spectrum of various industries, verticals and government sectors.

Sunil is particularly experienced in complex investment and venture-backed transactions involving multiple parties, various shareholders and parties across several jurisdictions. He enjoys acting for institutional investors (family offices, venture capital funds and private equity investors) making investments and divestments and start-ups/ early stage entities receiving investments at all stages of a company’s life-cycle - from seed stage to advanced stages such as Series D and beyond.

Career

Senior Partner - Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLP (formerly Rodyk & Davidson LLP) (2022 - present)

Partner - Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLP (formerly Rodyk & Davidson LLP) (2005 - 2021)

Professional Memberships

Member, Law Society of Singapore

Member, Singapore Academy of Law

Member, Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Personal

People’s Association: 5 Year Long Service Award for Grassroots Volunteer Work, 2018

Consumer Association of Singapore: 10 Year Long Service Award, 2018

Community Mediation Centre: 5 Year Long Service Award, 2017