David Lakhdhir, a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP for over 30 years, joined the firm in its New York office, was partner-in-charge of the firm’s Tokyo office for almost five years, returned to New York for five years as Chair of the firm’s Asia Practice Group, and then relocated to London as co-head of the firm’s London office for about 18 years. He has advised multinational enterprises, global banking groups, private equity firms, and U.S. governmental entities in M&A, financing, capital markets and regulatory matters involving over 30 countries on five continents.
David is a director of Human Rights Watch, Inc. and Chair of its Asia Advisory and Policy Committees, a member of the advisory Council of JUSTICE (a U.K. legal reform organization), Chair of the board of trustees of the American University of Central Asia in the Kyrgyz Republic, a director of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, and a past Chair of the International Law Committee of the NYC Bar Association. At the beginning of his career he spent an academic year as a Visiting Scholar at the Indian Law Institute in New Delhi, studying India’s regulation of foreign investment and governance of state-owned enterprises. He is admitted to practice in New York, Washington, D.C., and England and Wales.
A.B. Harvard College 1980
J.D. Harvard Law School 1983
