Ms. Ramya Hariharan is a seasoned lawyer with more than two decades of experience in corporate and commercial laws. She specializes in general corporate, mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance, insolvency and restructuring. Ramya is also a qualified company secretary. She is the founder of Citadel Law Chambers, which is a full service law firm. She was appointed on the Board of TMILL in October, 2026.
Over the course of her career, Ramya has advised on numerous domestic and cross-border acquisitions involving both listed and unlisted companies. She has represented clients on both the buy-side and sell-side in complex acquisition transactions, including strategic and financial investments. Her expertise also extends to corporate restructuring through business transfers, schemes of arrangement, and proceedings under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016.
Ramya has played a key role in structuring and executing a wide range of financing transactions, including project finance deals with an aggregate value exceeding INR 70 billion. Her strategic legal counsel has supported businesses across diverse sectors in navigating complex commercial and regulatory challenges.
She was featured among the Top 100 Lawyers in the Forbes Legal Powerlist in both 2021 and 2022. Her firm Citadel Law Chambers has been recognized as a Leading Law Firm (City Focus) by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2023, while Ramya herself was named a Leading Individual (City Focus) in the same rankings. She has also been recognized by CEO Insights as one of the Top 10 Women Legal Consultants.