Welcoming Siddharth Raja as Professor of Practice
June 24, 2025
We are pleased to welcome our alum Siddharth Raja (NLS BA LLB ’97), Senior Partner, VERTICES PARTNERS as Professor of Practice at NLSIU.
Siddharth is a seasoned corporate lawyer with a career spanning over 26 years. He is a Senior Partner at VERTICES PARTNERS, where his practice focuses on private equity and venture capital transactions, and cross-border and domestic mergers and acquisitions (M&A/PE-VC).
He began his law career in 1998 with the leading law firm, Udwadia, Udeshi & Berjis, and later worked with the international law firm, O’Melveny & Myers. He was one of the Founder Partners of the Bengaluru-headquartered law firm, Saakshya Law, and Co-Founder of Narasappa, Doraswamy & Raja, that merged in 2013 to form the law Firm ‘Samvad:Partners’ (where he was also a co-founder). He was also Senior Partner & National Executive Director at Argus Partners.
In 2022, Siddharth moved to VERTICES PARTNERS, a pan-India mid-tier law firm that focuses on assisting founders and promoters on corporate/commercial law and M&A/PE-VC mandates and transactions. Siddharth is also a trained and certified professional mediator. He has been recognised for his global business perspective, attention to detail and excellent technical knowledge.
He has taught as Visiting Faculty at Jindal Global Law School, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), and Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore, and with the think-tank, The Takshashila Institution.
An alum of NLSIU (BA LLB ’97), Siddharth was a Chevening Scholar, and a J. N. Tata Scholar at the University of Warwick Law School.