Khaitan, Trilegal, Mori Hamada on SBS’ $73m majority buy in Transpole Logistics

Tuesday, 5 August 2014 By Legally India Corporate M&A

Khaitan & Co and Mori Hamada & Matsumoto advised Tokyo-based SBS Holdings in buying a 66 per cent stake in Transpole Logistics, which was advised by Trilegal.

Khaitan Delhi partner Rajat Mukherjee, associate partner Harsh Kumar, executive director Daksha Baxi and competition partner Manas Kumar Chaudhuri, together with Mori Hamada of counsel Yohei Koyama acted for SBS. The acquisition is costing SBS Rs 446 crore ($73.5m), according to Dealcurry.

Trilegal Mumbai partner Amit Tambe with senior associate Anjali Menon and associate Kevin Peter acted for Transpole and the existing investors – Everstone and Fidelity.

Khaitan & CoTrilegalMori Hamada Matsumoto

Comments

Mon-ney 6 Aug 2014, 03:33
+1 -3
What fees, typically - for such a (73Mn) Deal?
Wellwisher 6 Aug 2014, 11:41
+2 -0
Well done Anjali. Hope to see more of you on such deals.
Guest 8 Aug 2014, 04:09
+2 -2
Looks like Khaitan has better ties with Mori Hamada than Trilegal (read Charandeep & Akshay)
Anon 8 Aug 2014, 05:27
+2 -1
Why blame Akshay!! He relied on Charandeep to nurture his Japanese connections while he spends time to build Infratsructure & Energy practice. Time for Akshay to re-build Japanese practice along with Infra!
kianganz 8 Aug 2014, 05:30
+1 -1
Assuming that Mori and Trilegal are close, relationship wise, I'd be very surprised if Mori didn't also work with other law firms and in certain cases one side or other of a transaction might have a pre-existing relationship with an Indian firm too.

And all of the big firms have been nurturing Japan connections. Khaitan, for instance, had a Japanese-qualified lawyer for a while, and many others too have a proper Japan group.

Just sayin'....
Anon 8 Aug 2014, 06:00
+2 -1
Exactly the point. While other firms are making greater efforts to tap Japan..it seems Trilegal is losing control over its already existing relationships
Mori 11 Aug 2014, 16:41
+4 -0
Who is daksha?
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