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Kosturi Ghosh is a Partner in Trilegal’s Bangalore office and a member of the Board. Her primary areas of practice are general corporate advisory, M&A, and private equity. Kosturi has been actively involved in several high-profile inbound and outbound acquisitions and joint ventures. She specialises in advising multinational clients on commercial, regulatory and strategic matters, on setting up processes and procedures to ensure compliance with Indian laws, structuring investments and exit options in several regulated sectors. She has done significant advisory and transactional work in IT, education, food and agriculture, and healthcare. Kosturi holds various industry body memberships such as at the International Bar Association where she holds the position of an officer of the Corporate and M&A Law Committee and is also a co-chair of Asia Pacific Mergers & Acquisitions Conference. Other notable associations where Kosturi actively participates includes IPBA, IMA, ICC, Spain – India organisation, USIBC, IFCCI and WinPE (Women in Private Equity). Kosturi has been a champion for the advancement of women in the profession of law. Her personal goal is to see an improvement in the ratio between women and men at the higher end of the corporate ladder and to mentor more women lawyers to believe that they can achieve both career and personal ambitions. She is the architect of several diversity and inclusion initiatives at Trilegal. Yet another significant initiative she led is a unique and first of its kind programme that is aimed at addressing diversity gaps in the institutional investment space, which has historically been an industry dominated by men. Kosturi was also a part of the Collegium of WinPE which stands for Women in Private Equity and has also served in the board of IWIRC. Kosturi Ghosh has supported the cause of the transgender community and voiced her opinion about recognizing transgender rights in India in the Chambers Diversity Forum and was recognised as ProBono Lawyer of the Year at Chambers Diversity Inclusion Awards 2020 for her work with Blank Noise, a non-profit organization that works towards empowerment of women and prevention of abuse through the medium of art. Kosturi is also a trustee at the Wow Kitty Trust. Kosturi has been recognized by various institutions from time to time. A few of them are: • Ranked individual in Corporate M&A practice by Chambers and Partners Asia Pacific, 2023 • ProBono Lawyer of the Year at Chambers Diversity Inclusion Awards, 2020 • A leading Corporate M&A lawyer (RSG Report, 2017) • Special jury award, Women in Legal Leadership; IDEX Legal Awards, 2016 • ‘40 Under 40’ in Asia Pacific by Asian Legal Business • Leading Corporate M&A and PE lawyer in India (Chamber and Partners)