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Bhavin Gada, Managing Partner at Reva Legal

Bhavin Gada

Managing Partner bhavingada@revalegal.in
Investments · Dispute Resolution · Strategic Corporate Advisory · Mergers & Acquisitions · Fund Formation · Real Estate · White Collar Investigations

Bhavin Gada is the Managing Partner of Reva Legal with more than 20 years of experience advising promoters, investors, family offices, funds and corporates on strategic transactions, investments and complex commercial disputes. Recognised by the Legal 500 Asia-Pacific as a Leading Partner for Dispute Resolution and Commercial, Corporate and M&A, he is particularly known for advising on matters where commercial objectives, regulatory considerations and dispute risks intersect.

Bhavin's disputes practice focuses on providing efficient and effective solutions to commercial and corporate disputes, governance issues, regulatory investigations and enforcement proceedings. Clients rely on him for strategic guidance at critical stages of disputes, including litigation, arbitration, settlement negotiations and enforcement.

Bhavin's transactional practice spans mergers and acquisitions, private equity and strategic investments, joint ventures, real estate transactions, corporate structuring and fund formation. He supports clients throughout the transaction lifecycle, from structuring and due diligence to negotiation and documentation, with a focus on identifying risk early and delivering commercially effective outcomes.

Bhavin holds a B.Com. and LL.B. from the University of Mumbai and an Masters of Business Law from the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. He is a qualified Solicitor of the Bombay Incorporated Law Society. He is also an Advocate-on-Record at the Supreme Court of India, and a member of the Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa.

Beyond his legal practice, Bhavin serves as an Expert Member of the Thesis Advisory Committee at SVKM's NMIMS, Member of a Committee for Board of Studies at SVKM's NMIMS, mentor to start-ups at T-Hub and AIC–Nalanda Institute of Technology Foundation, and supports initiatives focused on employment opportunities for young adults with disabilities.

Recognition

  • "Leading Partner" — Dispute Resolution (Mumbai) and Commercial, Corporate and M&A (Mumbai) — Legal 500 Asia-Pacific Rankings 2026
  • "Recommended Lawyer" — Corporate and M&A and Private Equity Funds (including Venture Capital) — Legal 500 Asia-Pacific Rankings 2026
  • "Litigation Star" — Commercial & Transactions — Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific Rankings 2025 & 2026
  • "Notable Practitioner" — M&A — IFLR1000 Asia-Pacific Rankings (2018 to 2025)
  • "Notable Practitioner" — Investment Funds — Asialaw Asia-Pacific Rankings (2023 to 2025)
  • "Leading Individual" — Commercial, Corporate and M&A Mumbai; Recommended Lawyer for Private Equity & Investments India, Dispute Resolution Mumbai — Legal 500 Asia-Pacific Rankings (2023 to 2025)
  • "Top Dispute Lawyers in India" — Asian Legal Business (2022, 2023)
  • "India Super 50 Lawyers" — Asian Legal Business (2020, 2021, 2023)
  • "India's Rising Star" — Asian Legal Business (2021)
Ameya Deosthale, Founding Partner at Reva Legal

Ameya Deosthale

Founding Partner ameyadeosthale@revalegal.in
Dispute Resolution · Arbitration · Regulatory Proceedings · Real Estate · White Collar Investigations

Ameya Deosthale is a Founding Partner at Reva Legal with more than 16 years of experience representing corporates, promoters, and high-net-worth individuals in complex commercial, regulatory, civil and criminal disputes, and arbitration. He is recognised as a Next Generation Partner for Dispute Resolution by the Legal 500 Asia-Pacific.

Ameya advises clients from pre-dispute strategy and risk assessment. He has represented clients before the Supreme Court of India, various High Courts, tribunals and other judicial forums, and regularly coordinates with international counsel on cross-border disputes and execution matters. His sector experience includes real estate, pharmaceuticals, financial services, and media and entertainment.

In his real estate practice, Ameya advises developers, investors, landlords and occupiers on transactions and disputes involving commercial, residential and mixed-use assets, commercial leasing, and disputes arising from development and construction relationships.

Known for a methodical and strategic approach, Ameya aligns legal strategy with his clients' broader commercial objectives, whether through decisive courtroom advocacy, arbitration, negotiated settlements or execution proceedings.

Ameya holds a B.L.S LL.B from the University of Mumbai. He is a member of the Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa.

Recognition

  • "Next Generation Partner" — Dispute Resolution (Mumbai) — Legal 500 Asia-Pacific Rankings 2026
  • "Future Star" — Commercial & Transactions — Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific Rankings 2025
Mehak Gupta, Founding Partner at Reva Legal

Mehak Gupta

Founding Partner mehakgupta@revalegal.in
Private Equity · Corporate and Regulatory Advisory · Mergers & Acquisitions · Private Client · Fund Formation

Mehak Gupta is a Founding Partner at Reva Legal with more than 10 years of experience advising clients on investment transactions, mergers & acquisitions, regulatory advisory, general corporate and commercial matters, private client matters and fund formation. Recognised as a Recommended Lawyer for Corporate and M&A by the Legal 500 Asia-Pacific, she has significant experience advising on matters involving securities market (SEBI), banking regulator (RBI) and foreign investment regulations (FEMA/FDI), including structuring, governance frameworks, promoter arrangements and compliance issues arising in complex transactions. Clients value her strong legal acumen, industry awareness and practical, solution-oriented approach.

Mehak regularly works with founders, promoters, investors, individuals, family offices and funds on investments, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate restructurings and day-to-day corporate compliance. Her private client practice includes succession planning, estate structuring and family governance matters for entrepreneurs, promoters and high-net-worth families.

Mehak holds a B.A. LL.B. (Hons) from National Law University, Lucknow and a Master's in Business Laws (Gold Medalist) from the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. She is a qualified Solicitor (Gold Medalist) from the Bombay Incorporated Law Society.

Recognition

  • "Recommended Lawyer" — Corporate and M&A — Legal 500 Asia-Pacific Rankings (2023)
  • "Top 100 Inspiring Women in India" — Fox Story India (2023)
  • "30 Under 30 Elite Club of Lawyers and Legal Influencers" — BW Legal World (2023)

Thought Leadership

Funds & Foreign Investment
Simplifying overseas investment is only the headline — the deeper shift is away from approval-by-approval oversight, and with it, far more onus on investors to structure deals correctly the first time.
Bhavin Gada · Mehak GuptaManaging & Founding Partner
Featured in
Chambers
In contextOn the Foreign Exchange Management (Overseas Investment) Rules and Regulations, 2022, replacing the earlier 2004 and 2015 FEMA regimes.
Funds & Foreign Investment
The ban on assured returns isn't the whole story — under FEMA, an exit stands or falls on how it is drafted: a right tied to a breach or event survives where a flat guarantee will not.
Mehak GuptaFounding Partner
Featured in
Mondaq
In contextOn the prohibition of assured returns under the Non-Debt Instrument Rules, 2019, and how courts have carved out room for conditional exit rights.
Data Protection
These rights are only as strong as the State lets them be — sweeping, undefined exemption powers mean the privacy law's real force will be decided by how sparingly they are invoked.
Ameya Deosthale · Mehak GuptaFounding Partners
Featured in
Mondaq
In contextOn the Central Government's broad, notification-based exemption powers under India's Digital Personal Data Protection framework.
Securities & Capital Markets
SEBI's evidentiary bar keeps shifting — from trading patterns and proximity to demanding cogent, documentary proof of intent — and until that standard settles, every insider trading case turns on which line the tribunal draws that day.
Bhavin Gada · Mehak GuptaManaging & Founding Partner
Featured in
Mondaq
In contextOn the inconsistent evidentiary and mens rea standards SEBI and appellate tribunals apply when prosecuting insider trading under the PIT Regulations.
Real Estate & Land Law
A law written to protect small farmers may end up doing the reverse — vague definitions and a sweeping override could let the very non-agriculturists it excludes capture its benefits.
Bhavin Gada · Ameya DeosthalePartners
Featured in
Mondaq
In contextOn the Maharashtra Agricultural Land Leasing Act, 2017, and the gaps in how it defines who may lease as a "person".
Mergers & Acquisitions
Import the Companies Act definition of "relative" wholesale into a deal document, and you inherit its ambiguity too — an entire Hindu Undivided Family, married daughters and renouncing members included, can end up inside your affiliate carve-out without anyone intending it.
Bhavin GadaManaging Partner
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Bar and Bench
In contextOn how transaction documents that borrow the Companies Act, 2013 definition of "relative" can unintentionally sweep an entire Hindu Undivided Family into the scope of "affiliate".
Perspectives · Not legal advice