Mr. Sambhav Ranka is a Senior Partner with IC Universal Legal (ICUL) at its Mumbai office.

Sambhav heads the M&A and Private Equity practice at ICUL and has been involved in various complex cross border (inbound and outbound) acquisition and investment transactions involving both private and public (listed and unlisted) entities.

He specializes in structuring of cross border transactions and has assisted several conglomerates on their mergers andacquisition transactions, various financial and strategic clients on their deployments and exits, companies and promoters on their capital raises and hasthus undertaken structuring, documentation, negotiation and has closed several M&A, Private Equity, Venture Capital and Joint Venture transactions across various industry verticals.

Sambhav has had the pleasure of advising some of the largest private equity funds, investment banks, financial institutions, corporate houses and global MNCs and has gained extensive experience in M&A and PE practice areas. He also has had the experience in setting up, structuring and advising investment funds and has undertaken documentation of several onshore and offshore India eccentric funds.

Sambhav has been with ICUL since 2014. Prior to ICUL, he was with Nishith Desai Associates (NDA) at their Mumbai office as a senior member of the Corporate, Securities & Funds practice. He pursued his law from I.L.S. Law College, Pune and undertook LLM from University of London(Queen Mary), United Kingdom. He kicked off his legal career with a city-based law firm in London in 2006 and gained experience with the India desk of the firm for over a year there.

He has authored / co-authored several articles in leading publications, news dailies and journals and has been an avid speaker at several conferences, seminars and webinars.