Ruchir Sinha, a partner and head of Touchstone Partners’ Mumbai office, has left with his team to form a new venture, Resolut Partners, which will focus on advising investment funds and large corporate houses on high-stakes transactions.
Regarding the clients he will work with at his new firm, Sinha said: “The same clients have now moved to Resolut with me.” His team will continue to serve the same international clientele and apply its commercial and legal expertise with a focus on fund formation, private equity, M&A, private credit, competition/antitrust, and fund litigation.
On his motivation to set out on his own, Sinha said: “[We wanted to] advise on transactions in a slightly multi-disciplinarian manner, driven by our deep understanding of deal-specific tax and accounting issues, and our ability to devise deal commercials including mathematical formulations. We felt this vision could best be achieved if we pursued it independently, which led to the creation of Resolut Partners.”
As managing partner of the firm, Sinha said he would lead based on a non-hierarchical team structure. “Success for us has always been a measure of happiness, innovation and professional excellence,” he said. “We have now set out into new territories with the confidence that our robust team and close-knit family of clients will continue to be the bedrock of our success.”
Prior to joining Touchstone, Sinha was the former co-head of private equity and M&A at Nishith Desai Associates (NDA). He along with Shreyas Bhushan, a leader at NDA, had formed the Mumbai office of Touchstone Partners.
At Touchstone, Sinha’s team worked on some notable transactions such as the Cintra-GIC – IRB deal worth USD720 million, and Brookfield-INDIS housing project deal worth USD135 million.
