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Mohit Saraf, Founder & Managing Partner of Saraf and Partners, has close to three decades of experience in Mergers & Acquisitions, Banking and Finance, Capital Markets, Dispute Resolution, Projects, Infrastructure and Energy, Restructuring & Insolvency. He has advised global and Indian companies; as well as large institutional investors such as Viatris, Baxter, Bayer, Carlyle, Abbot Laboratories, SBI, Goldman Sachs, Capgemini, Everstone Capital, Arcelor Mittal and Nippon Steel on multi-billion dollar deals.
Mr. Saraf is a member of the Steering Committee and the National Executive Committee of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI). He is also the co-chair of the Private Equity and Venture Capital Committee of FICCI.
Mr. Saraf is a member of the Corporate Laws, the Stressed Assets and the Capital Market Committees respectively. He is also a member of the Governing Body of the Indian Council of Arbitration.
Mr. Saraf is actively involved in the Government of India initiatives and has assisted in the drafting of the Electricity Bill, 2003; advised the Planning Commission on various concession agreements and also deposed in the Parliament on the Nuclear Liability Law, leading up to the enactment of Civil Nuclear Liability Act 2011. Mr. Saraf has led the drafting of the “Judicial Reforms Paper” which was presented on behalf of FICCI to Mr. Narendra Modi, the Honourable Prime Minister of India.
Mr. Saraf is regularly invited by the National Judicial Academy, Bhopal to share his experience with the Judicial Officers including High Court and Supreme Court Judges.
He has been highly recognized for his work and has received a several prestigious accolades such as ‘Eminent Practitioner’ by Chambers and Partners, Global Guide 2023, recognized amongst ‘Top 10 Corporate lawyers in India’, ‘Managing Partner of the Year’ by BW Legal Global Leaders Award 2021, ‘India Super 50 lawyers’ by Asian Legal Business 2021, ‘M&A Lawyer of the Year’ for India by IFLR 1000 India (2020), Who’s Who Legal Award 2021, and more.
Apart from the professional recognition, Mr. Saraf has also been awarded the ‘Shaurya Chakra’, a national peacetime gallantry award by the Honourable President of India, Mr. R. Venkatraman in 1991 for his selfless service to the nation. Further, he was awarded the Delhi Police Award, 1989, Significant Xaverian Award in 1992, and was appointed as a Special Police Officer, Delhi Police. St. Xavier High School also conferred upon Mr. Saraf the Distinguished Xaverian Award, 2019 as an achiever and a fine human being who dedicated his life ‘For God and Country’. He is also the recipient of the Hindu College Distinguished Alumni Award-2022 for excellence in Legal Affairs. Hon’ble Justice S.Ravindra Bhat, Judge Supreme Court of India was pleased to give him this award.
Awards And Recognitions
- Consistently Ranked as ‘Eminent Practitioner’ for Corporate and M&A, Projects, Infrastructure & Energy and Restructuring & Insolvency by Chambers and Partners, Global Guide, 2012 – 2025.
- Recognised as a ‘Litigation Star’ for Dispute Resolution – Commercial and Transactions by Benchmark Litigation in its Asia Pacific rankings, 2025.
- Ranked as a “Stand Out Lawyer” by Thomson Reuters.
- Consistently Recognised as ‘Leading Individual’ for Corporate and M&A and Capital Markets by Legal 500 Asia-Pacific, 2012 – 2025.
- Consistently Ranked as ‘Eminent Practitioner’ for Corporate and M&A; Projects, Infrastructure & Energy and Restructuring/Insolvency by Chambers and Partners, Asia-Pacific Guide, 2007 – 2025.
- Consistently being featured as a ‘Legal Icon’ and recognised amongst India’s Top Lawyers and members of prestigious A-List from 2016-2024 by India Business Law Journal.
- Consistently ranked as ‘Market Leader’ for Banking, Energy and infrastructure, M&A, Project development and Project finance by IFLR1000 Asia-Pacific Rankings (2012 – 2024).
- Recognised as ‘Elite Practitioner’ in Corporate and M&A by Asialaw Profiles 2023.
- Featured amongst ‘Top 10 Corporate Lawyers in India’ by Business Connect Magazine 2023.
- Winner ‘Corporate Lawyer of the Year’ at Legal Era Indian Legal Awards 2023.
- Awarded ‘M&A Lawyer of the Year’ for India by IFLR 1000 India, 2020.
- Consistently Ranked as ‘Eminent Practitioner’ for Corporate and M&A and Projects, Infrastructure & Energy by Chambers and Partners, Global Guide, 2012 – 2023.
- Featured as a ‘Global Leader’ in Energy – Power/Electricity, Government Contracts, M&A in Who’s Who Legal 2022 Guide.
- Recognised as ‘Leading Lawyer Champion’ for Corporate and M&A, Capital Markets and Projects, Infrastructure & Energy by Legal Era, 2022.
- Awarded ‘Managing Partner of the Year’ by BW Legal Global Leaders Award 2021.
- Recognised amongst ‘India Super 50 lawyers’ by Asian Legal Business, 2021.
- Mr. Saraf has been awarded the prestigious ‘Shaurya Chakra’ (a national peacetime gallantry award by the Indian President, Mr. R. Venkatraman).
Mr. Mohit Saraf, Shaurya Chakra (National Gallantry Award), presented by the honorable Indian President, Mr. R. Venkatraman
Select Experience
Advised Vedanta Group in a USD 20 billion Joint Venture with Foxconn to manufacture semiconductors in India under the Government of India Production Linked Scheme.
Advised Viatris to sell its biosimilars assets to Biocon Biologics Limited (BBL), subsidiary of Biocon Limited for USD 3.335 billion for stock and cash. Biocon is India’s largest bio-pharmaceutical company.
Advised and acted for the Carlyle Group and Viyash Life Sciences in multiple acquisitions as part of its pharmaceutical platform in India.
Advised Department of Disinvestment & Public Asset Management (DIPAM), Government of India on disinvestment of 93.71% of shares of 4 Central Public State Enterprises – MMTC, NMDC, BHEL, MECON, and 2 Odisha Government PSUs – OMC and IPICOL in Neelanchal Ispat Nigam Limited (NINL) for which Tata Steel Long Products Limited has been declared the highest bidder with bid on enterprise valuation of approx. USD 1.62 billion.
Advised & acted for Fortis Healthcare Limited in the bid process concluding with IHH Healthcare acquiring Fortis in a deal value of over USD 1.8 billion.
Advised Power Finance Corporation Limited in connection with its acquisition of 52.63% stake in REC Limited – the entire shareholding of the President of India, along with transfer of management control in a USD 2.11 billion transaction.