Mr. Anand Kumar, as the managing partner of Pier Counsel, has a holistic approach towards innovative and client-centric solutions. He is a widely recognised lawyer with expertise in private equity, venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, fund formation, cross-border transactions, intellectual property and general corporate laws. With over 20 years of experience, he is the go-to person for all legal solutions. In addition to this, he is recognised in the field of academia as well. He is invited by numerous business and law schools of India and enjoys the interaction. Furthermore, his love for innovative start-ups and budding innovators in IT, social media, gaming, internet bots, AI, AR/VR, e-commerce, financial technologies, digital technologies, mobile application and services is evident as he has mentored the founders in various aspects of strategy and growth. He has assisted various clients to strengthen their strategy, from launching a new start-up to selling business.

Mr. Anish Vohra is an Associate Partners at our firm and one of the initial team members. He is an alumnus of Symbiosis International University. He holds six years of work experience and has worked across a broad range of sectors advising domestics and international client. His practice focuses on the full spectrum of venture capital and private equity transaction, start-up/emerging company formation, corporation legal compliance, deal structing, mergers and acquisition, licensing transaction, and leading key negotiations to close qualified rounds of financing through domestics or FDI route.
Anish is an angel investor as well as an LP a few prominent entities and understand the starts-up ecosystem from a business and commercial standpoint. This gives him an edge in assisting entrepreneurs as well as investment funds in navigating the market.

Mr. Harshvardhan is a Principal Associate at our firm and one of the initial team members. He is an alumnus of Faculty of Law, Jamia Millia Islamia. He holds five years of work experience and has worked across a broad range of sectors advising domestic and international clients. His practice focuses on the general corporate, full spectrum licensing transactions, data privacy, venture capital and private equity transactions, start-up/emerging company formation. He has also been responsible deal structuring, mergers and acquisitions, licensing transactions, and leading key negotiations to close qualified rounds of financing through domestic or FDI route.

Mr. Akshay Kumar is an associate at our firm and has been associated with us for more than a year. He is an alumnus of Jindal Global Law School Sonipat.

Ms. Kanika is a Qualified Company Secretary and a law graduate with over 3 years of experience of Corporate Laws. She is also pursuing a diploma in Intellectual Property Rights from Indian Law Institute (ILI) and a Certification Course in MSME conducted by Institute of Company Secretaries of India. She has extensive experience in a wide range of practice areas including Start-up, Corporate Compliance & Management, Foreign Direct Investment, Secretarial Audit, Due-Diligence, Private Equity, Approvals Services under the Companies Act, 2013 and Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999. She is affluent in secretarial works. At Pier Counsel, she handles the secretarial compliances for funding round, ESOP, IPRs, preparation of various documents and forms for filings with ROC and RBI, rendering opinions on diverse subjects and general corporate advisory