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FinTech is not a sector where you gain anything by working on operational / product agreements, if all you want is to be able to work on FinTech M&As. This isn't like insurance, for example, where your M&A representations get impacted by esoteric regulations, which you won't ordinarily work with. FinTech companies get impacted mostly by basic RBI lead statutes / regulations and privacy / information technology act (and this is a more recent concern). You may also need to know some regulations which affect banks if your countarparty are banks, especially if you are working under the umbrella of the bank's core banking software. Often, you will know more banking regulations than the idiots working for the bank.
What you want to learn in FinTech is how technologies or processes work and whether those intersect or breach law and how those need to be tweaked for any number of reasons. Often RBI's regulations are meant for one use-case but your product gets caught in its net unwittingly - and how do you work in those situations. That is where "Fin" meets "Tech" and it is this intersection which is both interesting and can be fairly unique.
Band 1 firms - CAM, SAM, AZB
Band 2 firms - Ikigai Law, Indus, Nishith Desai, Spice Route
Band 3 firms - Trilegal, JSA, AK Partners, Jerome Merchant, Samvad
Individual lawyers
Band 1 - Anu Tiwari, Anirudh Rastogi, Shilpa Mankar
Band 2 - Mathew Chacko
Band 3 - Aparajita Srivastava, Rohan Bagai, Rahul Matthan, Avimukt Dar, Vipul Jain, Vishnu Jerome
They have a very bad clientele- and the partners themselves are horrible to work with! Won't suggest anyone to go there!