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Professional Biography

Rishabh is the Co-Head of the Private Client team, and the Head of International Business at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, India’s largest and leading law firm. He specialises in all aspects of family governance, including family constitutions and settlements, trusts, wills and succession planning. He provides succession, taxation, estate and wealth planning advice to wealthy individuals and their families, who are often promoters of large family businesses or Unicorn founders. He also advises family offices on all aspects. He is a passionate advocate for women’s succession rights in India. Rishabh recently was ranked in the Economic Times’s prestigious 40 under 40 list for 2021, as well as Fortune Magazine’s 40 under 40 list for 2023. Rishabh writes extensively, and is a Regular columnist in the Mint Newspaper, writing on personal finance, succession and estate planning. Rishabh is an active philanthropist, and is on the Advisory Board of WWF India.

What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?

Novikov, London

What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?

Always focus on your personal balance sheet, not only your profit and loss statement. A balance sheet in relationships is what causes the phone to ring, the profit and loss is what you do after the phone rings.

What was your first job?

I have been in the same Firm since the day I graduated!

What is the book you recommend to everyone?

Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss

What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?

More enforcement of personal guarantees. More overseas family offices being set up in Singapore and Dubai. More family separations.