Pradyun Chakravarty joins King Stubb & Kasiva as Partner and Head of Capital Markets

Pradyun Chakravarty has joined King Stubb & Kasiva as a Partner and Head of Capital Markets, along with a 16-member team in New Delhi and Mumbai..Chakravarty is a 2016 graduate of Karnataka State Law University..He has extensive experience advising on equity capital markets transactions and related securities and regulatory matters. Under his leadership, the Capital Markets team will work closely with KSK’s Corporate and M&A, Private Equity, Banking & Finance and Regulatory practices, providing clients with an integrated offering across the transaction lifecycle..Chakravarty joins KSK from Legacy Law Offices, where he was a Partner. His arrival marks a significant expansion of the Firm’s Equity Capital Markets capabilities and adds substantial depth and scale to KSK’s broader Capital Markets offering. .Commenting on the development, Jidesh Kumar, Managing Partner and Co-founder of King Stubb & Kasiva, said.“We are delighted to welcome Pradyun and his team to KSK. We have been steadily investing in building a strong and comprehensive Capital Markets practice, and Pradyun’s addition represents a significant step forward for us, particularly in Equity Capital Markets. KSK already has strong capabilities across the Capital Markets space, and bringing Pradyun and his team onto our platform gives us significantly greater depth, scale and execution capability. Pradyun has built an impressive practice and team, and we are confident that under his leadership, we will be able to further strengthen our position in this important area.This is a strategically important addition for KSK and reflects our continued focus on building specialist practices of scale. We are very pleased to have Pradyun lead our Capital Markets practice and look forward to working together to build a formidable offering for our clients.”.Commenting on joining KSK, Chakravarty said,“I am delighted to join King Stubb & Kasiva along with my team and to have the opportunity to lead the Firm’s Capital Markets practice. KSK has built a strong national platform with established capabilities across Capital Markets and complementary transactional and regulatory practices, providing an excellent foundation on which to further build and scale the practice.India’s capital markets are entering an exciting phase, and there is a significant opportunity to build a practice that combines specialist expertise with the depth and resources of a full-service national platform. The combination of our team’s Equity Capital Markets experience with KSK’s existing capabilities across Capital Markets, corporate transactions, financing and regulatory matters creates a compelling proposition for clients.I look forward to working with Jidesh and my new colleagues across KSK to build on the Firm’s existing strengths and develop a market-leading Capital Markets practice.”.If you would like your Deals, Columns, Press Releases to be published on Bar & Bench, please fill in the form available here.