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Mergers & Acquisitions
End-to-end Mergers expertise that lets you keep growing.
Our Mergers & Acquisitions practice advises buyers and sellers on a range of share purchase and asset purchase transactions across a variety of business sectors, involving private and public listed companies.
In particular, our Mergers & Acquisitions team advises on:
- Structuring issues involved in M&A deals, including Competition Law advice
- Negotiating M&A transactions
- Implementing transactions in the most tax efficient manner with an optimum mix of jurisdictions and instruments
- Legal due diligence with an industry specific focus
- Drafting, reviewing and negotiating term-sheets, non disclosure agreements, disclosure letters and definitive agreements including share purchase agreements, non-compete agreements, escrow agreements, stock-swap agreements, employment agreements and other documentation
- Legal and compliance issues under corporate and securities law including the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) takeover code, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Overseas Direct Investment (ODI) policy, listing and regulatory requirements, approvals and filings
- Representations before High Courts for merger approvals
Sectors
Insurance / Reinsurance
Oil & Gas
Insolvency and IBC
EPC
Employment
White Collar
Construction
Aviation
Real Estate
Consumer Law
Public Law
IP & Telecom
Metals & Mining
Regulatory Law
Service Law
Representative List of Matters
- In an arbitration before a Tribunal comprising UK Queen’s Counsel and American attorneys in the first Advance Loss of Profits claim in India, for INR 3,200 Cr.
- A consortium of insurance companies in arbitrations arising in connection with a significant white collar corporate fraud in India, which included falsifying and manipulation of financials.
- In various issues before different fora in relation to the largest IBC case in India and the approval of an INR 42,000 Cr resolution plan.
- For sovereign backed foreign investors in a SIAC arbitration before a tribunal comprising retired CJIs and Malaysian counsel in an INR 700 Cr dispute against Mumbai based real estate builders.
- A Reinsurer in disputes with its Indian Insurer in connection with foreign currency payments, conversion rates and RBI circulars.
- In arbitrations and subrogated recovery actions involving losses at large steel plants and refineries.
- In court and in arbitrations relating to the construction of the Mumbai Metro, the Bangalore Metro, national highways, take-or-pay obligations (gas and electricity) for manufacturing plants.
- For an American caterer in its disputes with an airline regarding collision of a catering truck with a Boeing 777, including participating in mediation in New York under JAMS supervision.
- Acting alongside Singapore counsel in an international arbitration emanating out of telecasting and broadcasting rights of the Indian Premier League.
- In various high value arbitrations before the SIAC, ICA, MCIA, and DIAC.
- Before a nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court on key issues relating to the fundamental right to privacy. [KS Puttaswamy v. Union of India, (2017) 10 SCC 1]
- In a landmark judgment relating to the admissibility of electronic evidence under the Indian Evidence Act, 1872. [Shafhi Mohammed v. State of HP, (2018) 2 SCC 801]
- Before the Supreme Court in issues relating to administration of cricket in India and arbitrability of disputes. [BCCI v. Cricket Association of Bihar, (2017) 6 SCC 737; World Sport Group (Mauritius) Ltd v. MSM Satellite (Singapore) Pte. Ltd 2014 11 SCC 639]
