Hardeep Sachdeva

Introduction

Hardeep Sachdeva is a senior partner at AZB & Partners. With more than 28 years of experience, he advises Indian and international clients and is consistently rated as India’s leading corporate and M&A lawyer.

Hardeep advises across several sectors, including real estate, e-commerce, retail, hospitality, industrial parks, data centres, education, technology, alcoholic beverages, manufacturing and others. He has been associated with several landmark M&A, PE investments, structured financing and listed debt securities transactions, and has done pioneering work in these areas. He also advises various US- and Europe-based foundations in India on their impact sector investments, lending, and other grants and programmes in India.

He has recently been involved in several leading IBC (Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code) matters from all aspects including initiation of insolvencies, submission of resolution applications, bids under liquidation, representing resolution professionals and preparation of resolution and liquidation plans; and led some of the judicial precedents in India in this area.

Hardeep has been consistently ranked as a leading corporate lawyer in India by some of the most prestigious publications. He has been a member of governmental and other industry committees and has authored various publications. He is a graduate in economics from Shri Ram College of Commerce and gained his law degree from the Campus Law Centre of the Faculty of Law at Delhi University. He was admitted to the Indian Bar in 1995, and is a member of the Bar Council of Delhi and the Delhi High Court Bar Association. In 1995, he joined Ajay Bahl & Co, a Delhi-based corporate law firm and one of the predecessors that combined to form AZB & Partners in 2004. He has been a key member of the firm since then.