Arvind Gurumurthy

Joint Managing Partner (South Region)

Arvind Gurumurthy leads the Firm’s South India Practice from Bengaluru, Karnataka, across Private Equity, Venture, Capital, M&A, General Corporate Advisory, Intellectual Property, and Technology, while also co-heading the Labour & Employment and Real Estate verticals. With nearly 20 years of experience, he has advised on several complex domestic and cross-border investments, M&A, joint ventures, and strategic acquisitions.

Arvind also supports several small to large corporates on regulatory compliances, commercial contracts, and real estate transactions. Arvind is intrinsically entrenched in the startup ecosystem, having advised several startups on their fundraising, corporate governance, stock options, internal policies & employment related documentation in addition to collaborating with several startup accelerators to conduct mentoring sessions and workshops for emerging entrepreneurs.

He holds a law degree from Bangalore University and a Master’s from UCLA, and is admitted to the Bar Council of India and the New York Bar. Arvind’s breadth of expertise is reflected in thought leadership pieces published across leading publications, including Mondaq, IVCA Magazine, and the Jus Laboris Network, among others.

Indicative Experience

  • Regular advisor to several large MNCs and domestic companies on various areas such as general corporate, regulatory, IP, Data Privacy, Labour & Employment, Real Estate (sale & acquisition), Setting up operations (including factory, warehouse), Licenses & Registrations, and more.
  • Drafting and advice on numerous types of business and commercial contracts, technical collaboration & IP ownership contracts, Asset Sale agreements, IP license and assignment agreements, Confidentiality & Non-disclosure agreements etc. and advice & assistance on making IP Ownership claims.
  • Involved in advising on several cross-border acquisitions transactions with ticket size ranging from $5 – $100 million, representing globally reputed companies such as ALS Global, SHAREit Technologies, Borzo Delivery, Corning, among others, and also been involved in advising Indian companies being acquired by global companies.
  • Involved in advising on the India leg of global acquisitions for various companies, which involved complexities pertaining to transfer of movable & immovable assets, IP, employees, and contracts, among others.
  • Involved in advising on several cross border and domestic joint venture & strategic collaboration arrangements of varied ticket sizes.
  • Involved in advising numerous venture capital investment transactions by reputed venture capital investors (such as Oiko Credit, Cabra VC, Rebright Partners, Omnivore Partners, Accel India, Kalaari Capital etc.) which has included conducting due diligence, drafting & negotiations on transaction & closing documentation.
  • Advised a well reputed startup on Series C funding of USD 20 million from marquee offshore investors. Similarly, advised numerous early to growth stage companies in varied sectors such as agri-tech, fintech, health tech, machine learning & artificial intelligence, automotive, consumer products etc. on fund raise transactions of ticket size ranging from USD 2 million to USD 25 million.
  • Advised on ODI investments by Indian entities into coal, gold, IT, oil & infrastructure companies in countries outside India, including the USA, Ghana, and Columbia, among others.
  • Advised on restructuring the shareholding of companies from India to Singapore, the USA, and re-domiciling holding entities from outside India into India.
  • Advised on several debt related transactions – including venture debts, syndicated loans from banking consortiums, and hire-purchase agreements, which included preparing all the necessary documentation related to such transactions.
  • Advised on data privacy & cyber security related issues – ranging from advising on data collection, processing, storage/retention, and purging based on applicable regulations which includes Indian data privacy laws and GDPR in collaboration with cross border experts for providing such advice.
  • Advised and assisted on several employment related issues such as drafting various employment agreements and policies, employee severance, structuring of compensation and benefits, consulting and secondment arrangements, resolving employee-employer disputes (including labour union issues before labour tribunal), and carrying out internal legal audit enlisting external experts specializing in labour related filings.;
  • Collaborating with industry experts to advice & assist with drafting of necessary policy/framework document required under the PoSH, and acting as an external member in the Internal Complaints Committee (required under PoSH), conducting regular POSH training sessions.
  • Advised several large companies on the lease, sale, and acquisition of real estate property, which includes conducting property title diligence, drafting, negotiation and finalisation of Sale Agreements, Lease agreements, Loan and mortgage related agreements etc. Also involved in advising landowners on high value Joint Development & Construction Agreements, cross border investments in construction & real estate projects in India & repatriation of proceeds.

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Arvind Gurumurthy leads the Firm’s South India Practice from Bengaluru, Karnataka, across Private Equity, Venture, Capital, M&A, General Corporate Advisory, Intellectual Property, and Technology, while also co-heading the Labour & Employment and Real Estate verticals. With nearly 20 years of experience, he has advised on several complex domestic and cross-border investments, M&A, joint ventures, and strategic acquisitions.

Arvind also supports several small to large corporates on regulatory compliances, commercial contracts, and real estate transactions. Arvind is intrinsically entrenched in the startup ecosystem, having advised several startups on their fundraising, corporate governance, stock options, internal policies & employment related documentation in addition to collaborating with several startup accelerators to conduct mentoring sessions and workshops for emerging entrepreneurs.

He holds a law degree from Bangalore University and a Master’s from UCLA, and is admitted to the Bar Council of India and the New York Bar. Arvind’s breadth of expertise is reflected in thought leadership pieces published across leading publications, including Mondaq, IVCA Magazine, and the Jus Laboris Network, among others.