Vijay Sambamurthi

Introduction

Vijay Sambamurthi is the founder and managing partner of Lexygen, a leading Indian law firm headquartered in Bangalore, with pan-India coverage and international offices in Singapore.

Sambamurthi graduated from the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru in 1997, and has more than 27 years of experience advising blue-chip funds, startups and high-growth corporations on their legal needs and growth strategy. He regularly advises some of the market-leading names on their Indian transactions and operations.

He enjoys a sterling reputation in the market for his chosen areas of practice, and has advised on many of India’s complex and first-of-a-kind transactions, including: The country’s first greenfield international airport project on a public-private partnership basis; A couple of India’s earliest and largest successful leveraged buyouts; The first private equity secondary transaction involving a portfolio of Indian companies; The drafting of India’s first state legislation focused on the facilitation of infrastructure projects; and The first venture capital deal in the cryptocurrency space.

In addition to his contributions as a leading transactional lawyer, Sambamurthi is a regular speaker at prestigious annual conferences such as the Horasis India Meeting, the Horasis Asia Meeting and the Indonesia Economic Forum.

In 2020, Sambamurthi was appointed to the working group on infrastructure and labour of the chief minister’s special economic task force for a post-covid Meghalaya.

Sambamurthi is a longstanding charter member of The IndUS Entrepreneurs. He is also on the panel of mentors of the National Association of Software and Service Companies 10,000 Startups programme where he regularly mentors several Indian and non-Indian startups.