Conformationally flexible ligands of appropriate size and denticity can wrap to a metal ion with high stability. In this perspective, a new tripodal siderophore‐mimic hexadentate chelator, N‐[3,5‐bis[(1‐hydroxy‐6‐oxo‐pyridine‐2‐carbonyl)amino]cyclohexyl]‐1‐hydroxy‐6‐oxo‐pyridine‐2‐carboxamide, (TACH‐1,2‐HOPO), which contains three 1,2‐hydroxypyridinone units attached to a cyclohexane ring through amide linkage at 1,3 and 5 positions, has been designed and synthesized. The characterization of the ligand was carried out through various techniques like FT‐IR, 1H NMR, 13C NMR, ESI‐MS, and electronic spectroscopy. In an aqueous medium, the solution thermodynamics and photophysical properties of the chelator and its La3+, Gd3+, and Lu3+ complexes were determined experimentally as well as theoretically. The pKa values for the ligand were found to be 8.40, 5.74, and 5.39. Formation of lanthanide complexes of type MLH3, MLH2, MLH, ML, and ML.(H2O)x (x=1,2 and 3) was perceived, and the log βmlh for various partially and fully protonated and hydrated lanthanide complexes are reported. Theoretical calculations by DFT supported the experimental results. The experimentally determined protonation constants gave the same trend of ΔG0 values obtained by DFT; also, the theoretically calculated FT‐IR, 1H, 13C NMR, electronic, and excitation spectral data are in covenant with experimental findings. The bonding behavior between the lanthanide ions and the TACH‐1,2‐HOPO explicated by implication of NBO, Morokuma Ziegler energy decomposition analysis (ETS‐NOCV), propose the Ln−L bonds are less covalent with the trend Lu>Gd>La.