AZB & Partners
AZB & Partners is a law firm in India, founded in 2004, with 320 professionals and 193 lawyers listed on its own site. It stands No. 3 of 10 in India, recognised by 3 independent publishers. Its practice areas include Antitrust, Competition, Arbitration, Aviation.
- Jurisdiction
- India
- Standing
- No. 3 of 10 in India
- Founded
- 2004
- Professionals
- 320
- Offices
- 7
- Recognitions
- 42
- Lawyers on file
- 193
- In the news
- 7

Standing in India
In India, 10 of 102 verified firms are placed: 10 placed by recognitions the firm announced from at least two independent publishers, reconciled to one figure per publisher. Firms on file without either are listed in the directory below and are not ranked. No composite score is published for India. The full list for India
Organization
0 practice areas and sectors · 193 lawyers on the firm’s siteHow AZB & Partners is organised, read from the titles and practice areas it publishes for each lawyer. A head is named only where the firm states one; otherwise the partner admitted earliest on record stands first and is labelled so.
Leadership
- Bahram N. Vakil
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- Nooruddin Dhilla
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- Kapil Arora
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- Nilang Desai
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- Himanshoo Tembe
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- Shruti K.P.
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- Manjula Baxla
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- Ishan Handa
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- Bhargavi Ravi
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- Janhavi Seksaria
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- Asif Ahmed
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- Yogesh Nayak
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- Ashnee Desai
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- Ashwath Rau
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- Shruti Garg
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- Sweta Ananthanarayanan
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- Shagoofa Rashid Khan
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- Aditya Prakash
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- Ajay Sawhney
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- Siddhant Satapathy
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- Ajay Singh Solanki
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- 'In' Sync or 'In' Conflict
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- Aarthi Sivanandh
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- Abhijnan Jha
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- Abhilash Chandran
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- Abhimanyu Chopra
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- Abhinav Ashwin
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- Abhishek Awasthi
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- Abhyudai Singh
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- Aditi Misra
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- Aditi Tambi
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- Aditya Periwal
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- Aditya Singh Chandel
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- Aditya Vikram Jalan
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- Adoksh Shastry
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- Agnik Bhattacharyya
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- Ajay Bahl
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- Ajay Upadhyay
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- Akhilesh Kumar Rai
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- Alka Nalavadi
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- Aman Jain
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- Amar Patel
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- Amitabh Robin Singh
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- Amrita Sinha
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- Anahita Pagdiwalla
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- Anand Shah
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- Anil Kasturi
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- Anindita Roychowdhury
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- Anisha Shridhar
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- Ankit Tandon
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- Ankul Goyal
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- Anmol Anand
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- Anshuman Bharadwaj
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- Anshuman Vikram Singh
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- Anuja Tiwari
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- Anusha Jacob
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- Anusha Jegadeesh
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- Aprajita Rana
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- Archana Iyer
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- Arnav Hemen Shah
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- Arun Babu
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- Asadulla Thangal
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- Ashish Pareek
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- Atreya Bhattacharya
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- Avinash Subramanian
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- Ayush Tandon
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- Bharat Apte
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- Bharat Budholia
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- Bhargavy Ramesh
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- Bhavana Alexander
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- Bhupendra Verma
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- Bhuvana Veeraragavan
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- Business Solutions to Legal Problems
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- Challenges and Risks
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- Chandni Anand
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- Daksh Trivedi
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- Darshika Kothari
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- Dhirajkumar Totala
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- Dhruti Narendra Dholakia
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- Dinoo Muthappa
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- Divya Mundra
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- Employment Law
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- G Padmanabhan
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- Gaurav Priyadarshi
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- Gautam Ganjawala
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- Gautam Rego
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- Gautam Varma
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- Gursimran Kohli
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- Hardeep Sachdeva
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- Harini Balaji
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- Harpreet Singh Ajmani
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- Harsh Kabra
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- Harsh Khanna
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- Harshil Dalal
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- Hemangini Dadwal
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- Hufriz Wadia
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- Jasmin Karkhanis
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- Jatinder Singh Saluja
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- Jeet Chaudhuri
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- John Raghav
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- Kamal Shankar
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- Karthik Mudaliar
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- Kashish Bhatia
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- Kirthi Srinivas
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- Kritika Agarwal
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- Kunal Kumbhat
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- Lionel D’Almeida
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- Malini Raju
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- Mallika Anand
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- Mrinal Shankar
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- Nandan Pendsey
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- Nandish Vyas
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- Nandita Govind
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- Nanditha Gopal
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- Navdeep Baidwan
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- Nikunj Maheshwari
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- Niladri Maulik
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- Nilanjana Singh
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- Nipun Sawhney
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- Nishanth Ravindran
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- Nohid Nooreyezdan
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- Nupur Singh
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- Parag Maini
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- Percis Anklesaria
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- Prabhav Shroff
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- Pranjal Bhattacharya
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- Prerak Ved
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- Prerna Ponappa
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- Priya Parab
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- Priya Tandon
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- Priyamvada Shenoy
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- Priyank Ladoia
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- Priyanka Shetty
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- Qais Jamal
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- Rachika Sahay
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- Rachit Bahl
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- Raghav Chadha
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- Raghav Seth
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- Rahul Aggarwal
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- Rajendra Barot
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- Ram Kumar Poornachandran
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- Raman Sharma
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- Ravi Bhasin
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- Rohan Bagai
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- Rohan Khare
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- Rohit Dutta
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- Roxanne Anderson
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- Ruchit Parikh
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- Rushabh Maniar
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- Sagnik Chatterjee
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- Sahil Tandon
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- Saloni Thakkar
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- Sarah Jayne Rufus
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- Saurabh Arora
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- Sayobani Basu
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- Shagun Badhwar
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- Shahrukh Khan
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- Shikhar Thukral
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- Shivanand Nayak
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- Shivang Sargoch
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- Shreya Singh
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- Shriram Shah
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- Siddharth Khanna
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- Soumit Nikhra
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- Sourya Donkada
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- Srinath Dasari
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- Sudish Sharma
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- Sugandha Bhatia
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- Suharsh Sinha
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- Sumit Ghoshal
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- Sumit Mangal
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- Suresh Varanasi
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- Swati Sharma
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- To Summon
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- Toshit Shandilya
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- Urvashi Misra
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- Vaidhyanadhan Iyer
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- Varoon Chandra
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- Varun Lamba
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- Vasudha Asher
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- Vatsala Rai
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- Vidhyadhare S
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- Vijayendra Pratap Singh
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- Vikram Shroff
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- Vinati Kastia
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- Vipul Jain
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- Vivek Shetty
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- Vyom Doshi
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- Zia J. Mody
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193 lawyers list no practice area on the firm’s site; they appear in the list below.
Lawyers
193 on the firm’s own siteNames, titles and practice areas as AZB & Partners publishes them, senior titles first. Each name opens the firm’s own page for that person.
39 ranked individually by the directories, shown first
- Abhijnan JhaFounding PartnersChambers: Up And Coming, Dispute Resolution · Chambers: Up And Coming, Dispute Resolution: Arbitration
- Ajay BahlFounding PartnersChambers: Eminent Practitioners, Private Equity · Chambers: Eminent Practitioners, Venture Capital · Chambers: Eminent Practitioners, Tax
- Bahram N. VakilFounding Partners · admitted 1985Chambers: Eminent Practitioners, Banking & Finance · Chambers: Eminent Practitioners, Restructuring/Insolvency
- Dinoo MuthappaFounding PartnersChambers: Up And Coming, Competition/Antitrust
- Ishan HandaFounding Partners · admitted 2011Chambers: Up And Coming, Banking & Finance
- Ravi BhasinFounding PartnersChambers: Up And Coming, Real Estate: Pan-India · Chambers: Up And Coming, Real Estate: Mumbai-based · Chambers: Up And Coming, Real Estate: New Delhi-based
- Saloni ThakkarFounding PartnersChambers: Up And Coming, Restructuring/Insolvency
- Aarthi SivanandhFounding PartnersChambers: Band 1, Corporate/Commercial: Chennai
- Anand ShahFounding PartnersChambers: Band 1, Aviation · Chambers: Band 2, Banking & Finance
- Anil KasturiFounding PartnersChambers: Band 1, Private Equity · Chambers: Band 1, Venture Capital · Chambers: Band 1, Corporate/M&A: The Elite
- Ashwath RauFounding Partners · admitted 2014Chambers: Band 1, Private Equity · Chambers: Band 1, Venture Capital · Chambers: Band 1, Corporate/M&A: The Elite
- Hardeep SachdevaFounding PartnersChambers: Band 1, Real Estate: Pan-India · Chambers: Band 1, Real Estate: Mumbai-based · Chambers: Band 1, Real Estate: New Delhi-based
- Nilang DesaiFounding Partners · admitted 2005Chambers: Band 1, Restructuring/Insolvency
- Rajendra BarotFounding PartnersChambers: Band 1, Dispute Resolution · Chambers: Band 1, Dispute Resolution: Arbitration
- Vijayendra Pratap SinghFounding PartnersChambers: Band 1, Dispute Resolution · Chambers: Band 1, Dispute Resolution: Arbitration · Chambers: Band 1, White-Collar Crime & Corporate Investigations
- Vikram ShroffFounding PartnersChambers: Band 1, Employment
- Darshika KothariFounding PartnersChambers: Band 3, Private Equity · Chambers: Band 3, Venture Capital · Chambers: Band 2, Corporate/M&A: The Elite
- Malini RajuFounding PartnersChambers: Band 2, Real Estate: Pan-India · Chambers: Band 2, Real Estate: Mumbai-based · Chambers: Band 2, Real Estate: New Delhi-based
- Ram Kumar PoornachandranFounding PartnersChambers: Band 2, Competition/Antitrust
- Srinath DasariFounding PartnersChambers: Band 2, Private Equity · Chambers: Band 2, Venture Capital · Chambers: Band 2, Corporate/M&A: The Elite
- Suharsh SinhaFounding PartnersChambers: Band 2, Restructuring/Insolvency
- Varoon ChandraFounding PartnersChambers: Band 2, Capital Markets
- Ajay SawhneyFounding Partners · admitted 2017Chambers: Band 3, Projects
- Anuja TiwariFounding PartnersChambers: Band 3, Projects
Matters and stories in the press
4 written by the newsroomStory · 10 November 2026 · 5 reports cited
Karnataka High Court quashes dowry harassment case against Hosapete-based politicianStory · 10 November 2026 · 374 reports cited
Rajah & Tann Singapore appoints Alex Toh as technology, media and telecoms partnerStory · 10 November 2026 · 27 reports cited
India's petroleum ministry invites comment on draft Petroleum (Amendment) Bill, 2026Story · 10 November 2026 · 3 reports cited
Fox Mandal hires Zeeshan Khan to head banking and finance in Mumbai
Directory placements
19 practice areas · read from the publishers’ tablesWhere the directories place AZB & Partners, practice area by practice area, as each table stands on the publisher’s own site. Each cell links to that table. The columns are the same on every page of this site.
Recognition
42 announcementsWhat other publishers have said, as AZB & Partners reports it on its own site, with the lawyers each announcement names. Each entry links to the page where it was read.
Law.asia2026
“Japan’s Yonex secures 50% of India distributor Sunrise Sports”
Reported by Law.asiaThe Legal 500Tier 12026
Antitrust and competition
“The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2026: Tier 1, Antitrust and competition, India”
The Legal 500’s published tableThe Legal 500Tier 12026
Aviation (including aerospace and defence)
“The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2026: Tier 1, Aviation (including aerospace and defence), India”
The Legal 500’s published tableThe Legal 500Tier 12026
Banking and finance
“The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2026: Tier 1, Banking and finance, India”
The Legal 500’s published tableThe Legal 500Tier 12026
Capital markets
“The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2026: Tier 1, Capital markets, India”
The Legal 500’s published tableThe Legal 500Tier 12026
Corporate and M&A
“The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2026: Tier 1, Corporate and M&A, India”
The Legal 500’s published table
From the Firm
What AZB & Partners has published on its own site lately: news, deals, recognitions and publications. Each links to the firm.
- Driven by excellence, focused on strategies for the longer term.
news · Oct 2022 · names Sumit Ghoshal, Archana Iyer, Shagun Badhwar
- COVID-19 Updates - April 23, 2020 - azb
publication · Apr 2020
- COVID-19 Updates - April 15, 2020 - azb
publication · Apr 2020
- COVID-19 Updates - April 3, 2020 - azb
publication · Apr 2020
- COVID-19 Updates - March 23, 2020 - azb
publication · Mar 2020
- COVID-19 Updates - March 23, 2020 - azb
publication · Mar 2020
In the News
Coverage in which AZB & Partners was named. Each headline links to the publisher.
- Reema Dash joins Korea’s BKL to advise investors into India
Law.asia · 16 Oct 2026
- Japan’s Yonex secures 50% of India distributor Sunrise Sports
Law.asia · 12 Oct 2026
- Kotak Mahindra to buy Deutsche’s India’s banking business
Law.asia · 7 Jul 2026
- Firms act on IHC’s USD1bn Sammaan Capital stake buy
Law.asia · 28 May 2026
- Firms map out Sun Pharma’s USD11.75bn Organon acquisition
Law.asia · 28 Apr 2026
- Firms assist on Advanced Drainage’s USD1bn buy of Norma unit
Law.asia · 27 Apr 2026
Sponsored: guides and chapters the firm wrote
Written by the firm. Practice guide chapters are placed with the publishers that carry them, usually for a fee. Listed for the reader’s use; never counted in the firm’s standing.
- Acquisition Finance: India
Sponsored · Chapter written for The Legal 500 Country Comparative Guides
- Anti-Corruption 2026: India (Law and Practice)
Sponsored · Chapter written for Chambers Global Practice Guides · Asif Ahmed, Puneet Dhanoa, Utkarsh Routh, Priyank Ladoia
- Anti-Corruption 2026: India (Trends and Developments)
Sponsored · Chapter written for Chambers Global Practice Guides · Arjun Narang, Varun Lamba, Shivam Jain, Kamal Shankar
- Banking & Finance 2026: India (Law and Practice)
Sponsored · Chapter written for Chambers Global Practice Guides · Anand Shah, Shivanand Nayak, Hufriz Wadia, Ishan Handa
- Banking & Finance 2026: India (Trends and Developments)
Sponsored · Chapter written for Chambers Global Practice Guides · Lokesh Deshwal, Karthik Mudaliar, Gautam Ganjawala
- Banking Regulation 2026: India (Law and Practice)
Sponsored · Chapter written for Chambers Global Practice Guides · Nilang Desai, Amrita Sinha, Avinash Subramanian, Anirudhan Balajee
Record
- Jurisdiction
- India
- Founded
- Not stated
- Entity source
- The firm's own website
- Firm’s site read
- 12 Aug 2026
Read from: practice areas · emails · phones · headcount
On its size, the firm says: “…320 lawyers, as stated on the firm's The Legal 500 profile…”
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