1. Get a vacation scheme (VS) at a London firm. This will usually happen at the end of your fifth year of law school. A VS is an internship where they test your potential. If they find you to be worthy, they will make you go through at least a year of study (if not they'll just drop you and you should move on). You will be taking the Solicitor's Qualifying Exam (S.Q.E.) and some firms may make you study the Graduate Diploma in Law (G.D.L., a qualification for UK graduates who studied a non-law degree but want to pivot to law, some firms have more traditional opinions about Indian degrees, and might take this option). Once they have made you do that year (or two) of study (with them paying a stipend), they will make you undergo a training contract (TC). This is a two year apprenticeship period where you will be exposed to multiple practice areas which would include M&A (especially in your case). You might be exposed to things like B&F, Private Equity, Leveraged Finance etc. Once you are done with your TC, you are admitted as a solicitor of the senior courts of England and Wales. You will be a Newly Qualified (NQ). You will be 'qualifying into' one of the seats you worked in during your TC, in your case, M&A. After that, you work in your chosen specialism as an associate, either at the firm where you did your TC or somewhere else, going up the ranks gradually, if you are good, and being shown the door if you aren't. During your TC (or even afterwards in many good firms), you may have the opportunity to go in house for a period with a particular client as a secondment, or to even go to a firm's office in another jurisdiction. Some firms (e.g., Linklaters, Dentons) offer a TC that combines training in multiple jurisdictions, with one year in London and one year elsewhere (in the case of Links, Singapore, and in the case of Dentons, Middle East), with the possibility of qualifying as a solicitor in England and wales + qualifying in that other jurisdiction.

2. Second option is to move to Singapore/London/HK as a lateral, after a few years of working in India. This is more difficult IMV, in the case of London, because it sort of becomes for them a 'damned if you do, damned if you don't' situation. They are really fussy about people going through the TC training period, and tend to be very unsure of people who haven't gone through that, which is why Option 1 is more likely to work than Option 2 (not like option 1 has a very high chance of working either). How much (if any) weightage/recognition they give to your Indian experience is difficult to determine. If you have too much experience, they might say you are overqualified for a TC and not take you in (the British have this way of rejecting by saying how sad they are to reject you, but they just had so many good applications this season that they feel quite bewildered and overwhelmed, which is their unique corporate/recruting/academic circumlocution for 'the competition was, is and will always remain tough, and you were, are and will always be, in our eyes, a bullshit') or do the same thing if you apply for a TC after a year or so PQE in India, saying that you actually don't have enough experience. So think about this carefully, as arguably, London is one of the best starting points for a career in commercial law outside India.

3. Unless you are a Rhodes Scholar or have the brains of such a one and enough money that 360K U.S. Dollars will not break the bank, don't think so much about U.S. as a starting point, because getting a job with LLM is almost impossible, and your only option there would be a JD.

I'm currently a 2nd-year law student. I have an interest in m&a, and I wish to work abroad, but I do not want to pursue an LLM. I have asked many professionals abt it, and I either get ghosted or get told that I'm too young to think about it. I just need a rough and potential path as to what I would need to do so that I can move out of India and work as a corporate lawyer specializing in M&A. It's a humble request if any professional has adequate knowledge in this matter, kindly provide me with some guidance.