PRITI SURI

Priti Suri, founder and managing partner, is a seasoned lawyer with over four decades of experience spread across three continents. Starting as a litigator, she evolved rapidly to become a business lawyer. Spanning a career over 40 years, she has worked in the US (New York & Chicago) and Europe (Paris) before returning to India where she set up the firm and the practice. She holds the distinction of being appointed as “Special Counsel” to the State of Ohio, Office of Attorney-General. In April 2026, Priti was recognized as one of the recipients of the Lawyers of India Day 2025 Awards by the Bar Association of India (BAI). She was named “Woman Lawyer of the Year – India & Middle East” at Thomson Reuters Asian Legal Business Women in Law Awards, 2023. She is the only Asian to receive the prestigious “Mayre Rasmussen Award” from American Bar Association for promoting gender equality for women practicing international law. India Business Law Journal has consistently recognized her as one of India’s top 100 lawyers for ten consecutive years since 2016.

A first-generational lawyer, her global experience has provided valuable insights to understand concerns and business realities on both sides so that projects can be closed successfully. She developed the firm and represented its international and domestic clients in the full range of cross-border M&A transactions, strategic investments, joint-ventures including tender and exchange offers as well as competition law. The deal size of her M&A representations is over USD 10 billion. She has counseled clients on venture capital financings, structured private equity deals, leveraged buyouts and divestitures. She continues to work closely with senior management of the firm’s clients, she counsels public and private companies on corporate governance, executive compensation, director responsibilities and fiduciary duties, general corporate advice, listing issues and project finance matters. A business lawyer, known for her pragmatic ability to get the deal done, her industry experience covers clients operating in many different sectors, including aerospace, automotive, chemicals, defense, energy, infrastructure, media, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, telecom and technology.

An active member of the international bar, Priti currently serves as the President of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association. She held a position on the Board of the International Technology Law Association from 2018 to 2022. Additionally, she chaired the India Committee of the American Bar Association’s International Law Section for two years and was its senior adviser until August 2018, when the Committee was integrated into a larger regional committee. Priti remains deeply engaged to ensure that young women aspiring to practice international law have a platform to do so, and, to that end, she has been instrumental in gender sensitization and equality while promoting the sustainability of women in the legal profession.