David Lakhdhir, a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP for over 30 years, is a lawyer with a practice spanning three continents and a wide range of cross-border M&A, foreign investment, and other international business transactions. He began his legal career in the firm’s New York headquarters, was partner-in-charge of his firm’s office in Tokyo during the 1990s and then co-founded and -ran its London office for almost two decades. His clients have included several of the world’s largest financial institutions and private equity houses, major U.S., European, and Asian multinational enterprises, and several arms of the U.S. government.

Mr. Lakhdhir is the Chair of the board of trustees of the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic; Co-Chair of the board of directors of Human Rights Watch, Inc.; and a member of the advisory Council of JUSTICE, a U.K. law reform and human rights organization. He is also a Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School.

A graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard Law School, before entering private practice, Mr. Lakhdhir served as a Teaching Fellow in Harvard’s Government Department, assisting in courses on “War” and U.S. foreign policy, and spent a year as a Visiting Scholar at the Indian Law Institute in New Delhi, India.