Ganesh Rao
Partner - Asset Management and Funds, Corporate
Asset Management and Funds | Investment Programmes | Financial Regulatory
Overview
Ganesh Rao is a Partner at Trilegal and part of the Corporate practice group, specialising in asset management and funds. In addition to his core practice of advising general partners, he regularly acts as counsel to limited partners (including development financial institutions, pension funds, corporations and family offices) on their investments in private funds and other investment programmes.
Additionally, Ganesh advises a number of clients on special situations relating to funds, including fund disputes, end-of-life situations, fund secondaries, key person events, LPAC special counsel and manager removals.
Education
West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata
Admissions
Bar Council of Karnataka
Industry body memberships
Asia Pacific Regional Forum Liaison Officer, Asset Management and Investment Funds Committee of the International Bar Association (2022)
Select representative clients/matters
Advised the following clients on asset management including investments in private funds and other programmes:
- NIIF
- Kotak
- IFC
- ICICI Ventures
- True North
- Blackstone
- SoftBank
- SIDBI
- Edelweiss
Recognition
- Featured as one of 40 under 40 India Inc’s Top Young Leaders 2021 by the Economic
Times in association with Spencer Stuart - Band 1 in Investment Funds by Chambers and Partners (Asia-Pacific), 2021-2023
- Distinguished practitioner under the Investment funds category; Asialaw Profiles (2022)
- One of ‘40 under 40’ Outstanding Legal Professionals by Asian Legal Business and Thomson Reuters
- ‘India’s Future Legal Leaders’ by IBLJ
