HSA Advocates is pleased to announce that effective 15th August 2026, The Precept Law Offices has merged its practice with HSA. Manish Singh, Ritesh Singh, Gaurav Mahajan and Nitin Tyagi, along with their respective teams from The Precept Law Offices, are joining HSA Advocates as Partners. They will be based out of HSA's Delhi office. This is the second significant merger this year, following the earlier merger with Shashank Singh Associates.
With this merger, HSA Advocates will be further strengthening its practice across dispute resolution and arbitration, insolvency and restructuring, international trade and customs, aviation, energy and infrastructure, taxation, and technology and data privacy law (with an active cross-border India-UAE practice), areas that are core to the practice of The Precept Law Offices.
Manish Singh has over 18 years
of experience advising on energy and infrastructure, land due
diligence, project finance and general corporate and commercial
matters. He has advised marquee clients including Azure Power,
IRCON, AECOM and Jubilant Foodworks on high-value transactions and
regulatory mandates. He has also led litigation and regulatory
matters across the power sector, including proceedings before the
CERC, SERCs and APTEL.
Ritesh Singh has over 18 years
of experience advising promoters, multinational corporations and
financial institutions on high-stakes disputes and regulatory
investigations. He specialises in international trade and
customs/DRI matters, white-collar crime, aviation, insolvency and
arbitration, and maintains an active India-UAE cross-border
practice. He has been recognised with the "Global Trade Lawyer
of the Year" award at the Global Legal Summit, UAE, and named
among The Times of India's "Visionary Personalities to
Look Out For".
Gaurav Mahajan has over 20
years of experience in arbitration, dispute resolution and
white-collar crime and enforcement matters. He has also built a
strong practice in technology, data privacy and AI ethics advisory,
including advisory work relating to the Digital Personal Data
Protection Act, 2023. He has advised clients including Amazon, Tata
Steel and LG Electronics, and serves as a mentor on AI Ethics &
Data Privacy appointed by the IndiaAI Mission, MeitY.
Nitin Tyagi has over 20 years
of experience advising multinational enterprises and Indian
corporations on taxation matters. He specialises in GST, income
tax, international taxation and tax-efficient structuring for
mergers and acquisitions. He previously worked with leading global
professional services firms including Deloitte, PwC and KPMG.
Commenting on the merger,
Hemant Sahai, Founding Partner, stated:
"We are pleased to welcome Manish, Ritesh, Gaurav and
Nitin to our leadership collegium. Their combined strength across
disputes, tax, energy and technology law further augments our
service offerings and adds to the full-service capabilities of the
firm. HSA Advocates has consistently augmented the leadership
with Partners from diverse fields and this is our second
significant announcement this year, following the merger of
Shashank Singh Associates with our firm. We look forward to the
synergies this integration will create across our partnership and
practice groups, enabling us to continue delivering seamless and
commercially driven advice to our clients."
Manish Singh, Ritesh Singh, Gaurav Mahajan and Nitin Tyagi, the incoming Partners at HSA Advocates, jointly stated, "Our practices in disputes, tax, energy and technology law complement HSA's existing strengths, and we see real synergy in bringing them together. We're glad to be joining a Firm that has consistently grown by welcoming strong, specialised teams, and we look forward to being part of that next chapter."