Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan
Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan is a law firm in India, founded in 1985, with 317 professionals and 132 lawyers listed on its own site. It stands No. 5 of 10 in India, recognised by 3 independent publishers.
- Jurisdiction
- India
- Standing
- No. 5 of 10 in India
- Founded
- 1985
- Professionals
- 317
- Recognitions
- 19
- Lawyers on file
- 132
- In the news
- 2

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
27 practice areas and sectors · 132 lawyers on the firm’s siteHow Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan 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
- Bipin Kumar Verma
Senior Partner
- Gajendra Jain
Senior Partner
- Kalpesh Shah
Senior Partner
- LKS GSTAT
Senior partners
- Manish Gaur
Senior Partner
- Raghavan Ramabadran
Senior Partner
- Ravi Raghavan
Senior Partner
- S. Vasudevan
Senior Partner
GST Consultancy
43Lawyers
Anand Nainawati, Anshul Mathur, Asish Philip Abraham, Bipin Kumar Verma, Chaitanya R. Bhatt, Darshan Chandrakant Machchhar, Deepro Sen, Jay Manoj Chheda, Jigar Shah, K. Srikanthand 32 more
GST & Indirect Tax Litigation
41Lawyers
Amar Pratap Singh, Anand Nainawati, Atul Gupta, Charulatha Rajaji, Deepro Sen, Gajendra Jain, Jigar Shah, Krati Singh, Krithika Jaganathan, Kunal Kapoorand 30 more
Customs
34Lawyers
Akhilesh Kangsia, Amar Pratap Singh, Anand Nainawati, Anurag Kapur, Bipin Kumar Verma, Dhruv Matta, Disha Bhandari, Jigar Shah, Jyoti Pal, K. Srikanthand 23 more
General Corporate
18Lawyers
Asish Philip Abraham, Dinesh Babu Eedi, Gaurav Dayal, Gopal Machiraju, Kunal Arora, Noorul Hassan, Paritosh Chauhan, Sushrut Biswal, Anupam Misra, Astha Sinhaand 7 more
Read More
17Lawyers
Anand Nainawati, Disha Bhandari, Krati Singh, Manish Gaur, Noorul Hassan, Ravi Sawana, Satya Sai, Shivam Mehta, Shubham Vijay, Vinay Jainand 6 more
Direct Tax
15Lawyers
Anand Nainawati, Raghavan Ramabadranranked, Ravi Raghavan, Ravi Sawana, S. Sriram, S. Vasudevan, Sudin Sabnis, Devashish Jain, Harshit Khurana, Neha Sharmaand 4 more
Regulatory
13Lawyers
Gaurav Dayal, Gopal Machiraju, Krithika Jaganathan, Kunal Arora, Neelambera Sandeepan, Paritosh Chauhan, Prathiba Karthikeyan, S. Vasudevan, Astha Sinha, Pratyush Jainand 2 more
Mergers & Acquisitions
12Lawyers
Asish Philip Abraham, Gaurav Dayal, Gopal Machiraju, Kunal Arora, Noorul Hassan, Paritosh Chauhan, Sushrut Biswal, Anupam Misra, Rohan Verma, Shipra Vermaand 1 more
Intellectual Property
10Lawyers
Vindhya S. Mani, Ankur Garg, Jaya Pandeya, Prashant Phillips, Prosenjit Chattopadhyay, Raghav Sarda, Archana Viswanathan, Aruna Verma, Manish Singh Bhadauria
International Trade and WTO
10Lawyers
Ankur Sharmaranked, Atul Gupta, Devinder Bagiaranked, Disha Bhandari, Gopakrushna Das, Pareesha Gupta, Santhana Gopalan, Divyashree Suri, Shambhavi Mishra
Private Equity & VC
10Lawyers
Gaurav Dayal, Gopal Machiraju, Kunal Arora, Noorul Hassan, Paritosh Chauhan, Prathiba Karthikeyan, Sushrut Biswal, Shipra Verma, Vinod Joseph
Commercial Litigation
8Lawyers
Gopal Machiraju, Krithika Jaganathan, Raghavan Ramabadranranked, Ravi Raghavan, Syed Peeran, Yogendra Aldak, A S Aniruddha
IP Litigation
8Lawyers
Ankur Garg, Jaya Pandeya, Prashant Phillips, Prosenjit Chattopadhyay, Raghav Sarda, Manish Singh Bhadauria, Executive
Patents
8Lawyers
Ankur Garg, Jaya Pandeya, Prashant Phillips, Prosenjit Chattopadhyay, Raghav Sarda, Manish Singh Bhadauria, Executive
Plant Variety Protection
8Lawyers
Ankur Garg, Jaya Pandeya, Prashant Phillips, Prosenjit Chattopadhyay, Raghav Sarda, Manish Singh Bhadauria, Executive
Tax Compliance Review
8Lawyers
Bipin Kumar Verma, Raghavan Ramabadranranked, Shivam Mehta, Shubham Vijay, Shweta Walecha, Kruti Parashar, Mathivanan N.
Trademarks
8Lawyers
Ankur Garg, Jaya Pandeya, Prashant Phillips, Prosenjit Chattopadhyay, Raghav Sarda, Manish Singh Bhadauria, Executive
Arbitration
7Lawyers
Krithika Jaganathan, Kunal Nikumbh, Raghavan Ramabadranranked, Syed Peeran, Yogendra Aldak, A S Aniruddha
Classification
7Lawyers
Payal Nahar, Rachit Jain, Ratan Jain, Srinidhi Ganeshan, Kunal Aggarwal, Viswanathan T.
Employment Law
7Lawyers
Gaurav Dayal, Noorul Hassan, Astha Sinha, Rohan Verma, Kumar Panda, Pratyush Jain
International Tax
6Lawyers
Anand Nainawati, Devashish Jain, Prachi Bhardwaj, Samyak Lohade, Venkat Ramanan
Data Protection & TMT
5Lawyers
Neelambera Sandeepan, Paritosh Chauhan, Prashant Phillips, Sameer Avasarala
1 of Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan’s profiles print the firm’s whole practice list rather than the person’s own, so they are left out of the groups above.
1 lawyers list no practice area on the firm’s site; they appear in the list below.
Lawyers
132 on the firm’s own siteNames, titles and practice areas as Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan publishes them, senior titles first. Each name opens the firm’s own page for that person.
3 ranked individually by the directories, shown first
- Raghavan RamabadranSenior PartnerEconomic Offences · Arbitration · Commercial Litigation · Tax Compliance ReviewChambers: Up And Coming, Tax
- Ankur SharmaPartnerBIS · International Trade and WTOChambers: Band 3, International Trade
- Devinder BagiaPartnerInternational Trade and WTOChambers: Band 3, International Trade
- Bipin Kumar VermaSenior PartnerTax Compliance Review · Customs · GST Consultancy
- Gajendra JainSenior PartnerGST & Indirect Tax Litigation
- Kalpesh ShahSenior PartnerGST Consultancy
- LKS GSTATSenior partners
- Manish GaurSenior PartnerGST & Indirect Tax Litigation · Read More
- Ravi RaghavanSenior PartnerCommercial Litigation · Customs · GST Consultancy · Direct Tax
- S. VasudevanSenior PartnerEconomic Offences · Regulatory · Direct Tax · Transfer Pricing
- Akhilesh KangsiaPartnerGST & Indirect Tax Litigation · International Trade and WTO · Customs · Read More
- Amar Pratap SinghPartnerCustoms · GST Consultancy · GST & Indirect Tax Litigation
- Anand NainawatiPartnerInternational Tax · Customs · Direct Tax · GST Consultancy
- Ankur GargPartnerIntellectual Property · Patents · IP Litigation · Plant Variety Protection
- Anshul MathurPartnerGST Consultancy
- Anurag KapurPartnerCustoms
- Asish Philip AbrahamPartnerSecurities Law · Mergers & Acquisitions · Employment Law · General Corporate
- Atul GuptaPartnerInternational Trade and WTO · GST & Indirect Tax Litigation
- Chaitanya R. BhattPartnerGST Consultancy
- Charulatha RajajiPartnerGST & Indirect Tax Litigation
- Darshan Chandrakant MachchharPartnerGST Consultancy
- Deepro SenPartnerGST & Indirect Tax Litigation · GST Consultancy
- Dhruv MattaPartnerData Protection & TMT · Customs
- Dinesh Babu EediPartnerCommercial Litigation · General Corporate
Directory placements
7 practice areas · read from the publishers’ tablesWhere the directories place Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan, 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
19 announcementsWhat other publishers have said, as Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan reports it on its own site, with the lawyers each announcement names. Each entry links to the page where it was read.
Benchmark Litigation2025
Awards - benchmark-litigation | LKS AttorneysAsian Legal Businesstop-tier2025
Awards - asian-legal-business | LKS AttorneysNames Prashant Phillips
IAMspotlight2025
Awards - iam-1000-1 | LKS AttorneysNames Ankur Garg, Prashant Phillips
The Legal 5002025
Awards - legal-500 | LKS AttorneysNames Ankur Sharma, Pareesha Gupta, Dhruv Matta, Gaurav Dayal, Prashant Phillips, Ravi Raghavan, S. Vasudevan, Neelambera Sandeepan, L. Badri Narayanan, Devinder Bagia, Noorul Hassan, Raghavan Ramabadran and 3 more
asialawleading lawyers2024
Awards - asia-law | LKS AttorneysIFLR10002024
Awards - iflr | LKS AttorneysNames Gaurav Dayal
Law.asia2026
“Japan’s Yonex secures 50% of India distributor Sunrise Sports”
Reported by Law.asiaThe Legal 500Tier 42026
Antitrust and competition
“The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2026: Tier 4, Antitrust and competition, India”
The Legal 500’s published tableThe Legal 500Tier 42026
Corporate and M&A
“The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2026: Tier 4, Corporate and M&A, India”
The Legal 500’s published tableThe Legal 500Tier 22026
Tax
“The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2026: Tier 2, Tax, India”
The Legal 500’s published tableThe Legal 500Tier 12026
WTO/international trade
“The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2026: Tier 1, WTO/international trade, India”
The Legal 500’s published tableChambersBand 42026
Dispute Resolution
“Chambers Asia-Pacific 2026: Band 4, Dispute Resolution, India”
Chambers’s published table
From the Firm
What Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan has published on its own site lately: news, deals, recognitions and publications. Each links to the firm.
- Indirect Tax Amicus | LKS Attorneys
publication · Nov 2026
- Central Excise & Customs Tariffs amended from 1-1-2017 | LKS Attorneys
publication · Nov 2026 · names Rohan Muralidharan, Srinidhi Ganeshan, Ratan Jain
- Corporate Amicus | LKS Attorneys
publication · Nov 2026
- Sign Up for Our Newsletters.
publication · Nov 2026
- Corporate Law Quarterly Update, July-September 2026
publication · Nov 2026
- Stay Updated on GSTAT.
publication · Nov 2026
In the News
Coverage in which Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan was named. Each headline links to the publisher.
- Japan’s Yonex secures 50% of India distributor Sunrise Sports
Law.asia · 12 Oct 2026
- Lakshmikumaran, KKL advise on Sloan’s Essel Bath fittings buy
Law.asia · 17 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.
- Employment & Labour: India
Sponsored · Chapter written for Global Legal Insights
- International Arbitration: India
Sponsored · Chapter written for Global Legal Insights
- International Trade 2026: India (Trends and Developments)
Sponsored · Chapter written for Chambers Global Practice Guides · Devinder Bagia, Charanya Lakshmikumaran, Ankur Sharma, Pareesha Gupta
- Life Sciences 2026: India (Law and Practice)
Sponsored · Chapter written for Chambers Global Practice Guides · Malathi Lakshmikumaran, Khushi Lokwani, Pallaash Shankhdhar, Vindhya S Mani
- Sanctions 2026: India (Trends and Developments)
Sponsored · Chapter written for Chambers Global Practice Guides
Record
- Jurisdiction
- India
- Founded
- Not stated
- Entity source
- The firm's own website
- Firm’s site read
- 9 Nov 2026
Read from: headcount
On its size, the firm says: “…317 lawyers, as stated on the firm's The Legal 500 profile…”
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