Senior Partner Siddharth Raja, Equity Partner Aditya Narayan and Partner Megha Narayan have decided to leave Argus Partners to start their own practice.

Commenting on this development, Argus Managing Partner Krishnava Dutt said,

“We wish them all the very best in their future endeavour.”

Siddharth Raja, who had co-founded Narasappa, Doraswamy & Raja (now Samvad Partners), had joined Argus Partners in 2016 as Senior Partner and National Executive Director of the firm in Bangalore.

He specializes in Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity & Venture Capital Investments, Banking & Corporate Finance.

A graduate of NLSIU Bangalore, Siddharth also holds an LL.M. in International Economic Law from Warwick University, where he was a Foreign & Commonwealth Office Chevening Scholar and a JN Tata Scholar.

Aditya Narayan and Megha Malhotra Narayan had also merged their practice with Argus in Bangalore in 2016. Both Aditya and Megha are graduates of NLSIU, Bangalore.

Before joining Argus Partners in 2016, Aditya worked in the disputes team at King & Partridge Advocates and as part of the disputes, and commercial advisory, teams at Narasappa, Doraswamy & Raja, Advocates (now Samvad Partners). He thereafter entered private practice and established Aditya Narayan & Co., where he headed a team of eight lawyers, providing a range of clients with advice on disputes and in real estate and commercial matters.

Megha joined Pricewaterhouse Coopers after graduation in 2006, and was a member of the indirect tax teams at the company’s Delhi and Bangalore offices. In 2013, she joined Aditya Narayan & Co. as a senior consultant