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Priti Suri is the proprietor of PSA. Priti has more than two decades of experience, in three continents, in
diverse areas of international commercial law, mergers and acquisitions and possesses a general corporate
background. Her focus is on company, commercial, joint-ventures, M&A, private equity, technology transfers
and dispute resolution. She is also experienced, both in India and overseas, in structuring private equity deals
including creation of funds and trusts and companies to manage them.
Early litigation exposure in India provided her with knowledge of contentious issues that arise in
business contracts. Subsequently, pursuant to an LL.M. degree in the US, she also added to her knowledge as an
exchange visitor under the ABA's International Legal Exchange program and worked at law firms in the US. As
an associate lawyer, she assisted in diverse areas of commercial law, including extensive work in ICC and AAA
arbitrations exceeding values of $200-500 million for clients in the energy and telecom sectors. Her early
exposure to international transactions and professional experience in US and Europe has given her a flexibility to
interact easily with clients from all jurisdictions. She was also appointed as "Special Counsel" to the State of
Ohio, Office of Attorney General, in relation to advice on India related litigation matters.
During the early 1990s she was based in Paris, first as an associate, and subsequently as a partner of a law
firm, where she represented several clients of the firm in numerous cross-border transactions. Priti has also
prepared detailed documentation, in French, analyzing global tenders between French multinationals and state
entities including various governments in South-East Asia and Africa.
In February 1997, she returned to India to set up the practice in New Delhi. Priti has and continues to
represent several clients in a broad spectrum of industry ranging from automobiles, aviation, defense, energy,
information technology, infrastructure, pharmaceuticals and telecommunications. She has served as lead counsel
in numerous joint-ventures, M&A (stock and assets acquisitions and sale of businesses) including in an
investment in India for one of the world's largest steel conglomerates where the total value was in excess of $900
million. Priti's experience includes counseling clients in negotiations and restructuring commercial transactions
between European/American/Asian multinationals and government/corporations in India. She steered to
conclusion several projects where the value was in excess of $200-$500 million including setting up of a satellite
for hand-held mobile communications.
Over the years, Priti has supervised numerous projects on inbound investments. Her experience includes
counseling a European MNC, with a presence in 65 countries and a yearly turnover of $10 billion, on its Indian
investment options including structuring and securing approvals from the regulators in a record time of less than
3 weeks. She has worked closely with senior management of the firm's clients and her representations have
involved general corporate advice, listing issues, private equity and project finance matters as well as structuring
transactions, both for listed and unlisted companies, between American/Indian corporations and
European/Indian corporations in various sectors.
Priti's multi-lingual skills [she communicates in French, English, Hindi and Punjabi (native language)]
have proved to be very useful in bridging cultural barriers. She has also represented the firm at various national
and international seminars in India/Europe/US and spoken on cross-border investments in India. Active within
the domestic and international legal community, she is currently Vice-Chair of the Women Business Lawyers'
Committee of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association, as well as Vice-Chair of the India Committee of the American
Bar Association's International Law Section.
Publications
During the early 1990s, Priti has co-authored articles published in the Illinois Bar Journal and
authored a chapter titled "Criminal Procedures in the Use of Agents in India" in a book titled
"International Trade: Avoiding Criminal Risks" edited by William H Hannay and published by
Butterworths Legal Publishers in USA in fall 1991.
Article on "Enforcement of foreign awards in India: Simplification under the 1996 Act",
published in the "Asian Dispute Review" by Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre.
Priti has also authored and edited two books "Open Source and the Law" (the first book on the
subject in India) and "FDI Notifications: An Anthology" published by LexisNexis Butterworths,
India.
She contributes regularly to various publications on India, including "International Law Office"
and "India Business Law Journal" on diverse legal issues arising in business transactions.
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