Vijay Parthasarathi

Vijay Parthasarathi is a Partner – Capital Markets at Trilegal and part of the firm’s Capital Markets team, focusing on Capital Markets Law. His practice portfolio encompasses IPOs (including REITs), QIPs, rights issues, domestic and foreign bond issues, public debt issues in India, and flip structures for a potential listing.

Vijay has advised clients on a wide range of transactions in the EV, FIG, financial services, fintech, information technology, defence, infrastructure, insurance, logistics, manufacturing, pharma and healthcare, real estate, and telecom sectors.

He has worked on several complex and innovative transactions which have since become market precedents, including the Ola Electric IPO (the first EV OEM to list in India), the Star Health IPO (the first IPO by a standalone health insurance company), the Computer Age Management Services IPO (the first IPO by a registrar), the Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Company QIP (the first QIP of CCDs and NCDs in India), the Tejas Networks IPO (the first non-regulated professionally managed company to file for an IPO), the MamaEarth IPO (the largest digital-first BPC IPO), and the Coffee Day Enterprises IPO (a complex multi-business group IPO).

He has also advised on several QIPs, including for Cholamandalam Investment, Happiest Minds, JM Financial, CreditAccess Grameen, Prestige Estates Projects and Bridgade Enterprises, and on public NCD and bond issuances for Piramal Housing Finance, Cholamandalam Investments, Navi Finserve and Wipro.

Vijay is ranked as a ‘Leading Lawyer Notable Practitioner’ in Capital Markets by Legal Era (2025–26), Recommended/Key Lawyer for Capital Markets by The Legal 500 (2026), ranked by Chambers & Partners Global and Asia-Pacific for Capital Markets (Equity) (2024–2026), and a ‘Notable Practitioner’ for Capital Markets: Equity and Debt by IFLR1000 (2020–2025). He holds an LL.M from New York University School of Law, an LL.B from Indian Law Society’s Law College, Pune, and a B.Com from M.E.S. College, Bengaluru, and is admitted to the Bar Council of Karnataka.