K Law for Reliance in $37m buy of IndusLaw’s Reverie language tech start-up

In what is an important development for Indian language enabling of India’s Internet, Reliance Industries has acquired a majority stake in Reverie Language Technologies: RIL, India’s largest business conglomerate, has acquired an undisclosed majority stake for Rs 190 crores (around $27.3 million a current conversion rates), and will invest Rs 77 crores (almost $10 million) by March 2021. The investment has been made via Reliance Industrial Investments & Holdings (RIIHL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Reliance Industries. Reverie will work towards integration of its Indic language localization services with RIL’s digital consumer platforms.

— Medianama

IndusLaw advised Reverie Language Technologies led by partners Srinivas Katta and Anindya Roy, senior associate Ankita Gupta, and associate Nishihi Shah.

Update 22 May 2019: K Law acted for Reliance Industries Limited, led by a team including associate partner Prateek Mohapatra, senior associate Jeevith Belliappa, and associates Amiyakumar Pati and Anurag Naskar. The team was also assisted by assisted by Supriya G and Sandeep Kulkarni from the in-house secretarial vertical.

2019-05-18

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Comments

Guest 20 May 2019, 08:52
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Hey Kian! Did Kco act for Reliance?
kianganz 21 May 2019, 04:55
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Apparently not Khaitan... TBC...
Guest 21 May 2019, 05:49
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Must have been AZB then
Carlyle 22 May 2019, 05:08
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Did you get a chance to check Kian?
kianganz 22 May 2019, 06:56
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Possibly not AZB from what I hear. Trying to confirm...
Guest 22 May 2019, 07:10
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Thanks Kian! Please update the story once you do get a confirmation.
kianganz 22 May 2019, 10:58
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Updated and revealed... Nice to see non-usual suspects do the mid-ticket RIL M&A.
Carlyle 22 May 2019, 11:21
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Yeah. RIL has done some 34 M&A deals in FY 19.But I guess all eyes will be on those two invits which CAM and Kco are involved in.
Poty Boy 22 May 2019, 12:17
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Congrats Prateek!
Junior 22 May 2019, 14:18
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Prateek is a very detail-oriented lawyer. Good to see AP's getting the credit instead of a partner for a change!
Ex colleague 22 May 2019, 15:17
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Great job, Jeevith!
WTF 26 May 2019, 05:39
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K Law acted for Reliance Industries Limited, led by a team including partners Srinivas Katta and Anindya Ghosh, senior associate Ankita Gupta, and associates Nishihi Shah and Shweta Adhikari. - This is Indus Law team !!!!!!

Please publish before checking.
kianganz 26 May 2019, 06:09
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Thanks, not sure how that happened - something must have accidentally overwritten the earlier published story. Now corrected!