Rishab Kumar

Rishab’s practice encompasses a wide range of complex business transactions, with an emphasis on M&A, strategic investments, private equity transactions, and related corporate and securities law matters. He also advises high-growth technology companies, startups, and venture capital and growth equity funds on private financings and other strategic transactions.

Rishab has practiced in India, London, New York, Hong Kong and Silicon Valley, and has extensive cross-border experience advising clients on foreign investment transactions in India and Southeast Asia.

Rishab was named to the Silicon Valley Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 list for 2025.

Rishab’s representative transactions include advising:

• NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) in several M&A transactions
• The Boston Celtics and the Grousbeck family – the majority stakeholders of Boston Basketball Partners, which owns the American professional basketball team – in connection with the $6.1 billion sale of the Celtics to an investor group led by William Chisholm
• Datastax in its sale to IBM (NYSE: IBM) 
• Absolute Software (NASDAQ: ABST) in its sale to Crosspoint Capital
• Delphix in its sale to Perforce
• Freshworks (NASDAQ: FRSH) in its acquisition of Device 42
• ChrysCapital in several M&A and strategic transactions
• BPEA EQT in several M&A and strategic transactions
• Cytek Biosciences (NASDAQ: CTKB) in connection with M&A and strategic transactions
• SiTime Corp (NASDAQ: SITM) in connection with M&A and strategic transactions
• NeoPhotonics (NYSE: NPTN) in its sale to Lumentum
• Tilray (NASDAQ: TLRY) in its merger of equals combination with Aphria
• TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO) in its merger of equals combination with Xperi
• Mindbody (NASDAQ: MB) in its sale to Vista Equity Partners

Rishab is a member of the American Bar Association, and he helps author the ABA’s Private Target Mergers & Acquisitions Deal Points Study. While attending Columbia Law School, he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.

Rishab is fluent in Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati.