Archana is the Founder of VERTICES PARTNERS, a leading niche corporate law firm on a fast track to becoming a full-service house that has a core specialization in Private Equity, Venture Capital and Mergers & Acquisition Transactions. The Firm has also on-boarded Regulatory & Secretarial Compliances, Real Estate, and Banking & Finance practices in 2022. Headquartered in Mumbai, VERTICES PARTNERS also has offices in Delhi NCR, Bengaluru, and Pune.
Archana, a first – generation – lawyer – turned – entrepreneur herself, has been a strong advocate of woman empowerment and entrepreneurship, health & wellness, and gender equality. Working towards improving the standards of work cultures in practice, she has been the driving force behind work-place initiatives that have been an industry-first internationally. These include Menstruation Matters, Mind Your Wellness, amongst others like Period Leave. Extending her scope of making a positive impact, she sits on the advisory board of several start-ups and new age entrepreneurial ventures. Archana works very closely with organizations to empower women and mentors and advises budding and seasoned entrepreneurs on several startup and investment forums.
She has been enlisted in Forbes Legal Power List 2021 as one of the Top 100 Individual Lawyers in Joint Venture, M&A and PE & VC. Archana has also been awarded Country’s Leading Lawyer for Private Equity & Venture Capital by ET Leaders of Change 2021. She had been recognized as Women Leading in Business by The Economic Times powered by Femina 2021. Archana was enlisted as one of the Top Under 40 Alternative Investment Professionals in India by The Association of International Wealth Management of India (AIWMI) and Indian Association of Alternative Investment Funds (IAAIF). She was recognized as the Entrepreneur of the Year 2019 by Indian Women Convention. Archana also got featured by one of the leading business publications in the Top 10 Powerful Women Lawyers of the Country. Asialaw 2022-23 rankings have also recognised her as a Notable Practitioner in Private Equity.
Wearing many hats, Archana has also been an active change agent within Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce, FLO – the FICCI Ladies Organization. This year, she found herself with a unique and rare opportunity when she was selected for two different roles within the organization, such that it allows her to contribute to the narrative of change for women at both the national as well as the local level. Indeed, she has been heading the Virtual Incubator, Programming and Collaborations for the National Startup Cell of FICCI FLO wherein she, along with her core team has created a community of women entrepreneurs and women angel investors within the FLO members. At the local level, Archana has also been diligently fulfilling the role of the Senior Vice Chairperson of FLO Mumbai and works on different aspects around economic empowerment and equal opportunities for women. Given the organization’s philosophy on continuity in leadership in the coming years and given her earnestness towards the cause and certain unflinching resolve to give shape to impactful and positive change, one that is sustainable, gives us immense hope for the future.
