Key practice areas

Corporate & commercial; joint ventures; mergers & acquisitions, private equity, venture capital & funds

Introduction

Vinayak Burman is the founder and managing partner of Vertices Partners, a boutique law firm. He specializes in venture capital, private equity and M&A practices, and strategic acquisitions across multiple sectors. He regularly represents several venture capital and private equity funds, promoters and founders in relation to investments, and several companies for various rounds of capital raising at all stages. He possesses a holistic as well as an incisive understanding of the corporate legal framework.

Vinayak has been ranked by Chambers & Partners, Asia Pacific 2015 and 2016 as an up-and-coming lawyer in the corporate and M&A and private equity practice; by RSG Rankings in 2015 and 2016 as a highly recommended lawyer for private equity and by Legal 500 2015 as a go-to-lawyer. Recently, Vinayak was featured as India Rising Star by Asian Legal Business. In 2016, he was awarded 40 under 40 Rising Star by Legal Era. He has also been awarded the prestigious 40 under 40 by Thomson Reuters Asia Law Business for the year 2018 – 2019 as one of the top lawyers under the age of 40 in the Asia Pacific region.

Vinayak has been recognized as a Notable Practitioner in the Leading Lawyer’s category by Asialaw Profiles in 2020. He has also been featured in the Super 50 lawyers in Asian Legal Business 2020.

Yahoo India has also profiled him as one of the top lawyers in India under the age of 40. He has been consistently ranked in the top 50 lawyers in the country in the private equity practice area by several forums. Under his astute leadership, Vertices Partners has carved a niche in the legal domain. Prior to founding Vertices Partners, Vinayak was a partner at Economic Laws Practice, looking after the PE vertical.

He worked for more than seven years with Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co, Mumbai. Vinayak started his career in the Supreme Court with litigation and then with Rajinder Narain & Co, New Delhi.

He is a startup enthusiast. He regularly moderates and speaks at various forums and, being an entrepreneur, also mentors several young entrepreneurs. He is also an occasional angel investor.

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