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MEET THE TEAM

Get to know the team behind Burgeon Law

FOUNDER

PARTNER

ASSOCIATE PARTNER

Principal Associate

Head – Practice Development & Strategic Partnerships

Roma
Priya

FOUNDER

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roma@burgeon.co.in

Reckoned as an entrepreneurial lawyer, mentor and start-up enthusiast, Roma Priya is the Founder of Burgeon Law, a multi-service law firm in India that takes pride in fuelling the innovation economy and being catalyst in the growth of start-up ecosystem.

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roma@burgeon.co.in

Articulate, reassuring and knowledgeable, she has a good sense of what is achievable and what is not, thereby steering expectations of clients to possible outcomes. She is thorough and market-leading in her reputation.

Under her leadership, Burgeon Law has evolved from a boutique law firm acting as a one-stop destination for all legal matters for companies and investors to an integrated, innovation-led, emerging global law firm that handles all aspects of corporate and commercial laws, transactional practice, fund formation, fund raising, commercial contracts and dispute resolution. Curating solutions by integrating legal acumen and sector-specific knowledge, the firm is head-quartered in New Delhi, India and services clients across the globe. 

Passionate about entrepreneurship and innovation, she thinks on her feet and is driven by the growth mindset. She believes in disruption through innovation and stays committed to mentoring entrepreneurs in their journey of pursuing their calling. Her collaborative approach ability to think in totality for clients has helped her foster long-term relationships with them. She is contemporary, adaptive, and dynamic, and often envisions Burgeon Law as a professional practice that would be reckoned as ‘the law firm of the future’.

Roma also has keen interest in various social and entrepreneurial initiatives that shape up the future of India – right from mentoring future entrepreneurs to authoring a book that would handhold them understand the practicality of legal and business solutions while starting up. She is also an avid traveller and values the importance of work-life-balance, an ethic she has instilled in her team and which has also become one of the core ethics for her firm. 

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Abhay Vohra holds an extensive experience of more than a decade and is currently heading the general corporate and commercial disputes practice of the firm.

Abhay
Vohra

PARTNER

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abhay@burgeon.co.in

He has extensively advised clients on diverse areas of practice such as transactional advisory, JVAs, collaboration and revenue sharing arrangements, technology transfers, and corporate/commercial law.  He has considerable experience in advising domestic and foreign clients on a wide range of corporate and contractual disputes. 

He is also retained by clients for assisting in legal arrangements, such as vendor/procurement/re-seller contracts, distribution, and franchise agreements, consultancy and varied service agreements, and IPR licensing agreements. His diverse portfolio allows him to draw from a veritable kaleidoscope of experience and allows him to provide holistic solutions to clients. He has represented several Multinational companies, start-ups, investors, etc.

Owing to the trust built by providing exceptional client service Abhay has been recognized amongst the India Super 50 Lawyers 2022 by Asian Legal Business.

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abhay@burgeon.co.in

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Abhisshek
Singlla

Associate Partner

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abhisshek.s@burgeon.co.in

Abhisshek holds an experience of more than 13 years and currently advises domestic and international clients across a broad spectrum of corporate work.

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abhisshek.s@burgeon.co.in

Abhisshek’s spectrum including private equity and venture capital, acquisitions, joint ventures (domestic as well as cross border), due diligences and corporate commercial contracts. His experience also includes rendering advisory services on foreign exchange, infrastructure, and project finance. 

Abhisshek has advised various companies, entrepreneurs and investment funds in a variety of industry sectors including E-commerce, Infrastructure, Information Technology, Manufacturing and Hospitality. He has also advised various Indians lenders on various aspects of funding including project finance. In the course of his career Abhisshek has worked with various leading Indian law firms and organisations.

Ankit Bhasin

Principal Associate

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ankit@burgeon.co.in

Ankit Bhasin is a corporate lawyer with specialization in mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures, providing end-to-end legal advisory and support for commercial transactions, including fund-raising, investment, divestment, and joint ventures.

Contact

ankit@burgeon.co.in

He also has expertise in general corporate advisory, advising on laws related to companies, partnerships, LLPs, insolvency & bankruptcy, foreign investment, foreign exchange, information technology, and labor. Ankit specializes in mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures, providing end-to-end legal advisory and support for commercial transactions, including fund-raising, investment, divestment, and joint ventures. He also has expertise in general corporate advisory, advising on laws related to companies, partnerships, LLPs, insolvency & bankruptcy, foreign investment, foreign exchange, information technology, and labor. 

Ankit has represented private equity firms, financial institutions, and Indian companies and promoters, such as Bain Capital, Warburg Pincus, L Capital, The Max Group, Finnfund, and Bank Sohar S.A.O.G., on various equity and debt transactions in India. He has a B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) degree from National Law University, Delhi, and is registered with the Bar Council of Delhi. Ankit has also been involved with the World Bank’s ‘Doing Business’ project in India between 2015 and 2018, where he contributed valuable insights on the business regulation environment, legal reforms, and enforcement in India.

A young dynamic Management & Legal professional, An Entrepreneur, a visionary by potential, an innovator by the intellect. Sahil, with his legal and business expertise, has recognized the fault points in the present culture of legal & business strategic services.

Sahil Chopra

Head - Practice Development & Strategic Partnerships

Contact

sahil@burgeon.co.in

Currently he heads the Practice Development and Strategic Partnerships for Burgeon Law. Previously, he was the Head – Growth and Partnership with Lawyered (Legal and Business) solution to Businesses and helping Corporates, Startups, and SMEs with Contract Reviews, Contract Management, Retainerships, Court Representations (Litigation), Brand Protection, Fund Raising (Through Angel Investors, VCs, and Family Offices), and Liasioning.

He is a Mentor at BusinessEx for guiding startups and entrepreneurs with their go to market strategy and business development.

He is also a Mentor at Mentorology to help young legal aspirants to develop the special skills to be “Atma Nirbhar” in their job search and try out new fields in the legal ecosystem.

Contact

sahil.c@burgeon.co.in

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