Gaurav Dani
Founding & Senior Partner
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Gaurav is a Founding & Senior Partner of CMS INDUSLAW. He is a US (New York) and India qualified lawyer based in Firm’s Delhi & NCR offices.
He specializes in private equity and venture capital financings, domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, demergers, strategic investments, joint ventures and corporate partnering transactions.
Gaurav represents public and private companies, private equity funds and venture capital investors in the technology, media including digital media, telecommunications, real estate biotechnology, health care, renewable energy, consumer products and other industries. He has led some of the largest private equity investments in the e-commerce industry in India.
He has previously worked with the India team at White & Case LLP and other prominent Indian law firms.
Gauarv, co-heads the Japan desk at CMS INDUSLAW and has been instrumental in developing the Japan practice. He has been recently appointed as Vice Chair of the International M&A Joint Venture Committee of the ABA International Law Section for the year 2023 - 2024.
The Legal500 Asia Pacific has over the last several years listed Gaurav as a recommended lawyer for Banking & Finance, Corporate and M&A and Capital Markets transactions. IFLR1000 and asialaw has consistently endorsed him as a highly regarded lawyer and as one of the most trusted lawyers in India in the Indian Corporate Counsel Association’s latest publication ‘The Vanguards’.
Gaurav has been consistently recommended in India Business Law Journal’s ‘A-List’ of top 100 lawyers in India in association with the Indian Corporate Counsel association (ICCA). This endorsement is based on extensive research by IBLJ in association with ICCA, on the nominations received by thousands of in-house counsels (including all members of ICCA) and India - focused lawyers at international law firms.
He is a regular speaker at seminars in India and overseas.