Ashwin Sapra

Ashwin Sapra is a Partner – Corporate at Trilegal, focusing on Health Care Law. He is widely regarded as one of India’s leading pharmaceutical and healthcare lawyers, with over 25 years of experience advising on complex regulatory, transactional, and contentious matters in the sector.

He is a trusted advisor to multinational corporations, leading Indian companies, and healthcare institutions on India’s regulatory regime governing drugs, medical devices, diagnostics, nutraceuticals, and related products. His expertise spans the full product lifecycle, including clinical trials, market entry, pricing and price control, promotional practices, and post-market compliance.

Ashwin has played a central role in structuring and executing high-value M&A, private equity, and capital markets transactions in the pharmaceutical and healthcare space, where regulatory considerations are often determinative. He regularly leads regulatory due diligence and advises on approval frameworks and compliance risk in complex cross-border deals.

As a seasoned litigator, he represents clients in high-stakes disputes involving product liability, regulatory enforcement, pricing actions, product recalls, and government procurement, and appears regularly before courts, tribunals, and sectoral regulators across India. He also advises on ethical compliance, anti-bribery frameworks, and industry codes governing healthcare practices, and is a recognised thought leader and regular speaker on healthcare and life sciences policy.

His representative clients include Johnson & Johnson, Roche Diagnostics, Eli Lilly, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, Intuitive Surgical, Zydus Life Sciences, Fortis Hospitals, Fresenius Medical Care, Zimmer Biomet, Baxter, Vantive and GSK.

He is recognised by Chambers and Partners (Asia-Pacific) in Band 2 (2022–2025), as an A-List Lawyer by India Business Law Journal (2024–2025), and as a Leading Individual for Life Sciences & Healthcare by Legal 500 (2024), among other publications. Ashwin holds an LL.M. from Duke University School of Law, an LL.B. from Symbiosis Law College, Pune, and a B.Sc. (Hons) in Zoology from the University of Delhi. He is admitted to practise in India and is a member of the Delhi High Court Bar Association.