Wiseroy Damodaran

Wiseroy Damodaran is a Partner – Corporate at Trilegal, focusing on Mergers and Acquisitions. He primarily focuses on private M&A, private equity, venture capital and general corporate advisory work.

Over the last 15+ years, Roy has represented investors as well as startups, growth-stage companies and their promoters on fund-raising transactions, strategic acquisitions, mergers, demergers, acqui-hires, structuring employee stock option schemes, exits by way of swaps, business transfers and other general corporate advisory work.

He has also been involved in several complex M&A deals involving restructuring of businesses, and has represented clients before authorities such as the (erstwhile) Foreign Investment Promotion Board, Reserve Bank of India, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Registrar of Companies and the Ministry of Home Affairs in connection with regulatory matters and transaction approvals.

His representative matters include advising Databricks on several M&A transactions in India, including the acquisition of Arcion Labs; advising Medlife Group on its sale to API Holdings; advising LGT Lightsone on its investment in Kauvery Hospitals; advising Carta Inc. on its India entry through the acquisition of ZenEquity; advising TE Connectivity on the divestiture of its broadband network solutions business to CommScope; advising Pitney Bowes on the acquisition of the terminal blocks business from ABB and the sale of its software solutions business in India to Syncsort; and advising Clayton, Dubilier & Rice on its acquisition of Carestream Dental.

His representative clients include Accenture, TE Connectivity, Databricks, Pitney Bowes, Carta, Peak XV (formerly Sequoia Capital), LGT, Truecaller, Ninjacart, Gitlab, Vista Consulting Group, Experian, Entrata and Louis Dreyfus Company.

He studied at the National University of Advanced Legal Studies and is admitted to the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa.