Snehal Patil

Founder | CEO | Managing Partner

Snehal Patil is the founder, CEO and Managing Partner of IndUS Counsel. Snehal has over two decades of experience as an attorney in the United States and India, and is dual-licensed to practice law in both countries. He is fluent in English, Hindi and Marathi.

Snehal has extensive experience in estate planning matters, including asset protection, kids protection, business succession planning, family wealth planning, setting up of revocable and irrevocable trusts, third party supplemental needs trusts, estate tax and gift tax planning, and trust administration. He routinely counsels clients on strategies aimed at preservation and transfer of intergenerational wealth, including setting up of rental LLCs, multi-state entities, and complex business structures. Snehal is also well versed with estate planning matters related to India. To date, Snehal has represented thousands of individuals and families in securing their life and legacy for future generations.

Snehal also has in-depth experience as a corporate lawyer representing startups, emerging growth businesses, and Fortune 500 companies in corporate formations, equity issuance, stock options and executive compensation plans, commercial and technology contracts, debt financings, private equity and venture financing, business buy-sell agreements, mergers and acquisitions, exit strategies and dissolutions, and U.S.-India transactions.

Snehal is a former member of India’s prestigious Civil Services to which he was appointed by the President of India. He was also recommended for appointment to India’s Cabinet Secretariat, headed by the Prime Minister of India. Snehal previously worked at India’s top law firm, DSK Legal (formerly, Andersen Legal India), and subsequently at three AmLaw 100 firms: Thelen LLP, Perkins Coie LLP, and Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP in their San Francisco and Palo Alto offices. He was also a partner at a national U.S. law firm where he chaired the firm’s India Practice.