Rustam Gagrat is a Senior Partner of Gagrats, Mumbai and Gagrat & Co, New Delhi. Rustam Gagrat's Practice Areas cover Corporate (M&A), Banking & Finance, Energy & Infrastructure, Aviation, Private Equity and Dispute Resolution. He is a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and an Advocate of the Supreme Court of India.

His praiseworthy education covers a B.A with First Class Honors in Politics from Elphinstone College, Bombay, a BA with Honors in Law and a MA from Downing College, Cambridge University and the PIL at The Harvard Law School.

On pathbreaking cross border financings, M&A deals, stake sales, PE deals, Infrastructure Projects and securities offerings (in India & Overseas), Rustam has represented leading corporates, international organisations, PSUs, Funds, FIIs, airlines and banks across varied sectors; for which he and his Firm have received awards and recognitions including from Euromoney, India Business Law Journal, Acquisition International and Air Finance.

His practice also covers aviation finance, structured finance, stake sales, business transfer and slump sales, securities laws and corporate governance, across a wide spectrum of sectors. He has appeared and advised on high profile dispute resolution matters before Courts and Domestic and International Fora and Tribunals. At Domestic & International law conferences, he has presented papers.

Rustam has been ranked in Who’s Who Legal, IBLJ’s “A List” of India’s Top 100 Lawyers, Distinguished Legal Minds, ICCA’s “India’s Most Trusted Corporate Lawyers”, Asia Pacific Legal 500, Chambers Global, Chambers Asia Pacific, IFLR 1000, Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in Asia / Asia Pacific, Who’s Who in Finance & Industry & World’s Leading Lawyers.

He is the recipient of several awards including ICFMs 500 Leading Lawyer Awards from 2013 to 2017; the Aviation - Lawyer of the Year - India 2014 to 2019 Awards; the 2015 Lawyers World Premier 500 Award; the Corporate Livewire’s Innovation & Excellence Award 2016; the Lawyers Worldwide Award 2016; the Global Leading Lawyers Award, 2016; M & A Today’s Global Award 2016; the Asia Law Leading Lawyer Award 2013 and 2017; the Most Trusted Corporate Lawyers, India Award - 2017 and 2018; the Lawyers Worldwide Award - 2017 and 2018; the Most Influential in Aviation Law 2018 - India Award; the Legal 500 Asia Pacific’s Leading Individual - Aviation (aerospace and defence) - India Award, 2018; the Market Leading Lawyer Award, 2018; the International Commercial Arbitrator of the Year - India Award, 2018; the Top 100 Lawyers Award, 2018 and 2019; the Lawyer of the Year Award- 2019; AI’s ‘One of the Leading Professionals in the field of M & A’ Award, 2019; Asian Achievers of the Year Award, 2019; Intercontinental Finance & Laws Top 50 Global Law Experts, 2019; Top 100 Lawyers, 2019, Aviation Expert of the Year in India 2021 & in 2024-25; Aviation Advisor of the Year Award 2025, Leading Lawyers in India, 2023 and 2022, Legal Era Awards in 2022 and 2023, IBLJ's A List of Top 100 Lawyers for 2023-24 and 2024-25, and Who's Who Legal 2024 and 2025.

“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts”

(Churchill)