Rajiv K. Luthra is admitted to Practice in India. He is the Founder & Managing Partner of Luthra & Luthra Law Offices – one of the largest law firms in India and recipient of the Asian Legal Business Award. More recently, Mr. Luthra has been identified as ‘one of the most highly acclaimed legal experts in the Asia-Pacific region’ in the practice areas of Capital Markets & Corporate Finance and General Corporate Practice by the 2007 Asia Law Leading Lawyers. The Lawyer.com included him among its top 40 ‘to have been making the biggest waves outside the UK.’ He ranked amongst ALB’s Hot 100 in recognition for his contribution to the Capital Markets’ sector.

Mr. Luthra has been rendering advice for over 2 decades, on a vast range of complex commercial transactions involving tax and a multitude of corporate and civil law issues. He has successfully concluded transactions on more than fifty infrastructure projects in Bangladesh, India, Nigeria, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the People’s Republic of China.

He has led and ably guided various disinvestment, privatization and restructuring assignments and has worked on some of the largest mergers and acquisitions in Indian corporate history. Mr. Luthra is also well experienced in structuring of foreign investment into India.

Appointed by the Government of India on the Advisory Board to the Competition Commission of India to assist in the framing of the general rules and regulations under the Competition Act, 2002, he has also been appointed by the Competition Commission of India to the Competition Advocacy Steering Committee. He is a member of the National Committee on Energy & the Core Group on Infrastructure Development of the Confederation of Indian Industries. The Ministry of Commerce has appointed him as a Convener of the Committee formed to advise the Government of India on liberalization of legal services under the GATT between India and the U. K.

Mr. Luthra is a member of various professional bodies such as the Supreme Court Bar Association, the Delhi High Court Bar Association, International Bar Association, the Inter-Pacific Bar Association, the International Union des Avocats, and the American Bar Association. He is a Fellow of the British Commerce Society and of the Royal Geographical Society. He also has to his credit, a number of publications in various national and international professional journals and magazines.