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AZB & Partners

Offices
Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Pune, Gurgaon

Total
Partners

Female Partners

Total
Fee-earners

Partner to Fee-earner Leverage Ratio

106394303.1
(headcounts dated 01 April 2019)

M&A + PE/VC table 2019-20

Deal
Count

Deal
Values
($m)

9815,300

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Client

Lawyers
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Other
firms

Deal
Value
($m)

Date

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$13.5m injection lockdowned e tailer NykaaFSN E-Commerce Ventures
Nykaa
Roxanne Anderson,
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14Mar 2020
Rescue $1.31bn deal from brink of collapseYes Bank(“Bank”)Varoon Chandra, Rinki Ganguli, Anand Shah, Hufriz Wadia, Nikunj Maheshwari, Shivanand Nayak, Palak Khandelwal,Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
State Bank of India (SBI)
SBI Capital
Argus Partners
HDFC Limited
Yes Bank
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1,310Mar 2020
Do $55m MedGenome fundraise from Leapfrog, Sequoia, SofinaLeapFrogNanditha Gopal, Gautam Rego,Algo Legal
Outsight Legal
Debevoise & Plimpton
in-house counsel
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55Mar 2020
AnyMinds buy of Singapore Mumbais Maiden Marketing video ads platformMaiden MarketingDMD Advocates
Atlas Asia Law Corporation
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Mar 2020
Turn wheels Warburgs $150m Apollo Tyres investmentWarburg PincusAnil Kasturi, Ashish Pareek,Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas
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150Feb 2020
$22m Series D in Ummeed from MorganUmmeed Housing FinanceGautam Saha, Dushyant Bagga, Swati Chauhan, Roy George,Trilegal
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas
Tatva Legal
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22Feb 2020
India leg of Motive buy of US Fiservs investment services biz
(Foreign deal: US)
Motive PartnersAshwath Rau, Anu Tiwari, John Adwet Raghav, Apeksha Mattoo, Sohni Kherada,
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Feb 2020
Does India leg of Gauge / Schlesinger buy of US India survey research company Market Cube
(Foreign deal: US)
Gauge Capital / Schlesinger GlobalAshwath Rau, Prerak Ved, Hufriz Wadia, Veena Gopalakrishnan, Aditya Singh Chandel, Soumit Nikhra, Abhipsita Kundu, Moitreyee Banerjee, Apeksha Mattoo, Rina Goyal, Rashmee Kumar, Mandar Shetye,
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Feb 2020
Saudi Agri 29% buy of Daawat Foods (Feb ‘20)Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment CompanyAshwath Rau, Divya Mundra, John Adwet Raghav, Abhipsita Kundu,
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Feb 2020
$510m Adani Green Energy JV Total (Feb ‘20)Adani Green EnergyAditi Gopalakrishnan, Aakarsh Narula,
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510Feb 2020JV
$202m Brookfield investment in Everstone backed IndoStar Capital FinBrookfield Asset ManagementAshwath Rau, Anu Tiwari, Medha Marathe, Vipul Jain, Pranav Atit, Tanya Pahwa, Priyanka Butani, Aishwarya Singh,S&R Associates
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
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202Jan 2020
Warburg $42.5m CarTrade line classifieds Series H (Jan ‘20)Warburg PincusSrinath Dasari, Nanditha Gopal, Samyuktha Santhosh,
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43Jan 2020
India leg of Sagents buy of Australian mortgage tech player ISGNSagent Lending Technologies
Indecomm Global Services
Anil Kasturi, Nandita Govind, Ashish Pareek,
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Jan 2020
Sachin Bansals Navi Tech Essel Finance buy (Jan ‘20)Sachin Bansal
Navi Technologies
Anu Tiwari, Vipul Jain, Samir Gandhi, Aditi Gopalakrishnan, Apeksha Mattoo, Aditya Alok, Tanya Pahwa, Gaurav Bansal,
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Jan 2020
Sachin Bansals Navi Technologies acquisition of Essel MF (Jan ‘20)Navi Technologies
Sachin Bansal
Anu Tiwari, Vipul Jain, Samir Gandhi, Aditi Gopalakrishnan, Apeksha Mattoo, Aditya Alok, Tanya Pahwa, Gaurav Bansal,
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Jan 2020
Uber go post IPO diet, selling food biz to s ZomatoUber
Uber India Systems
Ashwath Rau, Jasmin Karkhanis, Samir Gandhi, Hemangini Dadwal, Bharat Budholia, Nohid Nooreyezdan, Veena Gopalakrishnan, Aditya Singh Chandel, 961, Aakarsh Narula, Apeksha Mattoo, Rashmee Kumar, Karan Nelivigi,Advaita Legal
Samvad Partners
Trilegal
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Jan 2020
G $24m Novotel Pune, Seapearl sale to Chalet HotelsBelaire Hotels
Belaire Group
Sai Krishna Bharathan, Shivani Kabra, Vasudha Asher,Economic Laws Practice (ELP)
Wadia Ghandy
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24Jan 2020
Siemensfirst India investment $9m Pando software stakePando
Pandocorp
Samvad Partners
IndusLaw
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9Jan 2020
Deliver $19.4m babycare brand MamaEarth series D from Sequoia, othersSequoia CapitalGautam Saha, Sachin Mehta, Nikhil Bahl, Roy George, Vaishali Dhanawat, Rajat Chadha,Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Trilegal
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19Jan 2020
India leg of Sagent, Indecomm buy of ISGN (Dec ‘19)
(Foreign deal: US)
Sagent Lending Technologies
Indecomm Global Services
Anil Kasturi, Nandita Govind, Ashish Pareek, Anshuman Vikram Singh, Shreya Basu, Paulose Abraham, Kanika Jaggi, Tanuj Dayal,Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas
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Dec 2019
Series C of Dtwelve spaces from Equity InternationalEquity International ManagementSrinath Dasari, Nanditha Gopal, Samyuktha Santhosh,
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Dec 2019
UFO Moviez $2.8m buy via convertibles of Cinestaan DigitalUFO Moviez IndiaVaidhyanadhan Iyer, Vasudha Asher,Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas
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3Dec 2019
HogLov, ZestMoneys $15m, 15% fundraise from Goldman SachsCamden Town Technologies
ZestMoney
Anu Tiwari, Aditya Alok,Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas
Hogan Lovells
Cooley
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15Dec 2019
Ed UKs CDC $36m investment in Warburg backed Econ ExpressEcom Express
Warburg Pincus
Anil Kasturi, Nandita Govind, Anisha Shridhar, Prerana Malhotra, Paulose Abraham, Sarthak Sood, Arpit Agarwal,Platinum Partners
J Sagar Associates (JSA)
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36Dec 2019
Qatar Investment Auth buy of Adani Transmission $450m (Dec ‘19)Qatar(QH)Ashwath Rau, Atreya Bhattacharya, Aditi Gopalakrishnan, Anand Shah, Hufriz Wadia, John Adwet Raghav, Gaurav Bansal, Moitreyee Banerjee,
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450Dec 2019
Deloitte Thomas Cook India to buy brand from insolvent UK co $2m loose changeThomas Cook IndiaDivya Mundra, Nandan Pendsey, Pankhuri Govil,Indian Law Partners (ILP)
Ashurst
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2Dec 2019
City Football Group 8th buy of Super League club, acquires Mumbai City FCMumbai City FCAshwath Rau, Kashish Bhatia, John Adwet Raghav, Kanika Mishra, Abhipsita Kundu,Khaitan & Co
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Nov 2019
JMP, Cygnus Medicare $18m sale to Amar Ujala mediaAmar UjalaAnu Tiwari, Tanya Pahwa,Jerome Merchant + Partners
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18Nov 2019
Thomas Cook India bankruptcy restructuringThomas Cook IndiaDivya Mundra, Himanshoo Tembe, Gaurav Bansal,
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Nov 2019insolvency
$8m Bajaj Auto investment in bi , e cycle sharing platform YuluBajaj AutoGautam Saha, Sachin Mehta, Punita Gupta,
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8Nov 2019
$45m dialysis player Nephroplus investment by InvestcorpSealink Capital PartnersVaidhyanadhan Iyer, Anshuman Bharadwaj, Aditya Shioran,Samisti Legal
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas
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45Nov 2019
Muthoots buy of IDBI Asset Management $30mMuthoot FinanceSrinath Dasari, Bhuvana Veeraragavan, Rushabh Maniar, Samir Gandhi, Hemangini Dadwal, Toshit Shandilya,J Sagar Associates (JSA)
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30Nov 2019
$26m Series B KredX from Tiger (Nov ‘19)Tiger Global ManagementAshwath Rau, Srinath Dasari, Nanditha Gopal, Gautam Rego,
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26Nov 2019
Advent 74% buy of Bharat Serums, VaccinesAdvent InternationalZia Mody, Darshika Kothari, Rinki Ganguli, Pankhuri Govil, Devika Nayak,
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Nov 2019
Lupin $295m sale of its Japanese subsidiary Kyowa to PlutusLupinShameek Chaudhuri, Arvind Ramesh, Rutunjay Singh,
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295Nov 2019
Flipkart to invest $4m in EasyRewardzEasyRewardz Software ServicesDSK Legal
Fortitude Law Associates
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4Nov 2019
Tencent $110m MX Player video streaming platform investment Times InternetTencentDarshika Kothari, Divya Mundra, Pankhuri Govil,
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110Oct 2019
India leg of USGenpact buy of Chicagos Rightpoint digital consultancy
(Foreign deal: US)
Genpact USAAnkit Tandon, Nandita Bose, Guncha Dhiman,
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Oct 2019
CC, LW Total 37% buy into Adani Gas $714m (Oct ‘19)TotalZia Mody, Ashwath Rau, Kashish Bhatia, Medha Marathe, Armaan Patkar,Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Latham & Watkins
Clifford Chance
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714Oct 2019
BNP, Bank of Baroda Oct ‘19 merger of mutual fund businessesBNP Paribas Asset ManagementRushabh Maniar, Ashwath Rau, Rinki Ganguli, Arvind Ramesh, Palak Khandelwal, Himanshoo Tembe,Khaitan & Co
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Oct 2019merger
General Atlantic buy of RTA biz of Sundaram BNP Paribas Fund ServicesKarvy Fintech
General Atlantic
Ashwath Rau, Divya Mundra, Palaq Vora, Rutunjay Singh,
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Oct 2019
Does Dunzo $45m Series DDunzo DigitalAnu Tiwari, Tanya Pahwa,
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45Oct 2019
SoftBank Vision Fund ping its Delhivery stake to 25%SoftBank Vision FundVinati Kastia, Daksh Trivedi, Anant Dang, Srishti Goyal,
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Sep 2019
SoftBank additional 3.28% stake buy in s DelhiverySoftBank Vision FundSamir Gandhi, Hemangini Dadwal, Aakarsh Narula,Samvad Partners
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Sep 2019
US listed Colliers buy of Bgl property management firm Synergy (Sep ‘19)Colliers InternationalKashish Bhatia, Ami Parikh, Shriyani Datta,
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Sep 2019
Sachin Bansal in (Sep ‘19) foray into financial services Chaitanya microfinance buyBAC Acquisitions
Sachin Bansal
Aditi Gopalakrishnan, Gaurav Bansal, Shashank Sharma,
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Sep 2019
TCS JV Gen Motors techTata Consultancy ServicesNilanjana Singh, Pallavi Satpute, Rachna Chhabria,Bharucha & Partners
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Sep 2019JV
India leg of Texas acquisition of VitreosHealth by HMS
(Foreign deal: US)
HMSCorp.Srinath Dasari, Vivek Bajaj, Veena Gopalakrishnan, Malaveeka Chakravarthy,
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Sep 2019
$44m fundraise of ASG HospitalASG HospitalKunal Kumbhat, Vidhisha Ambade,Khaitan & Co
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44Sep 2019
Advents $130m open offer takeover of Crax, Natkhat maker DFMDFM FoodsGautam Saha, Sachin Mehta, Dushyant Bagga, Harshit Chandra, Punita Gupta,J Sagar Associates (JSA)
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
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130Sep 2019
Five Star in $50m TPG investment near billion USD valuationTPGRajaram Legal
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50Aug 2019
IC K $3.9m Awign Series A (Aug ‘19)IC Universal Legal
Anoma Legal
K Law
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4Aug 2019
Mitsubishi $14m investment in Sastasundar Ventures subsidiary HealthbuddyMitsubishi CorporationDaksh Trivedi, Anant Dang, Srishti Goyal, Aman Jain,Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
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14Aug 2019
India leg of Cisco buy of Customer Analytics Tech (Aug ‘19)Cisco SystemsGautam Saha, Sachin Mehta, Dushyant Bagga, Roy George, Harshit Chandra,
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Aug 2019
At least $209m Amazon stake buy in Future CouponsAmazonAjay Bahl, Hardeep Sachdeva, Rachit Bahl, Priyamvada Shenoy, Sachin Mehta, Ankit Jaiswal, Shivang Sargoch, Gautam Kumar Bhargava,Trilegal
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209Aug 2019
$125m Meesho Series D from Naspers, Arun SarinArun SarinAnil Kasturi, Jaishree Tolani, Paulose Abraham,J Sagar Associates (JSA)
Goodwin Procter
Inventus Law
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125Aug 2019
Cisco Systems buy of Bangalore SaaS provider 42hertz (Aug ‘19)Cisco SystemsGautam Shah, Dushyant Bagga, Sachin Mehta, Harshit Chandra,
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Aug 2019
Investor Footpath $400m Udaan fundraise [08 2019]Footpath VenturesVaidhyanadhan Iyer, Vasudha Asher,
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400Aug 2019
$120m Series B investment into fintech CredGeneral Catalyst VenturesAshwath Rau, Shreya Rao, Counsel Jasmin Karkhanis, Karan Nelivigi,Themis Associates
IndusLaw
Khaitan & Co
Gunderson Dettmer
Goodwin Procter
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120Aug 2019
Tiger Global $15m INDwealth wealth management website stake buy (Jul ‘19)Tiger Global ManagementAshwath Rau, Srinath Dasari, Nanditha Gopal, Gautam Rego,
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15Jul 2019
Sodexo buy of Indian fintech ZetaSodexoAshwath Rau, Dhruv Singhal, Ami Parikh, Himanshoo Tembe, Shivanand Nayak, Apeksha Mattoo, Rashmee Kumar, Shriyani Datta, Pooja Natarajan, Prithvi Bhaskar, Ronak Agarwal, Megha Tiwari, Shruti Sundararajan, Rachana Rautray, Vyjayanthi Raghu,
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Jul 2019
$3.66bn Brookfield buy into RIL towers draws into largest PE investment ever (Jun ‘19)Brookfield Asset ManagementGautam Saha, Madhurima Mukherjee,Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Khaitan & Co
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3,660Jul 2019
Visa Series D investment in PayMate (Jul ‘19)Visa International Service AssociationAshwath Rau, Anu Tiwari, Vipul Jain, Tanya Pahwa, Apeksha Mattoo,
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Jul 2019
Amazon Inc $7m investment in Qdigi via s Quess Corp parentAmazonHardeep Sachdeva, Ravi Bhasin, Abhyudai Singh,Khaitan & Co
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7Jul 2019
Ed $2.4bn IndusInd merger Bharat Financial Inclusion (Jul ‘19)Bharat Financial InclusionGautam Saha, Heena Singh, Abhinav Ashwin, Bharat Apte, Rajendra Barot, Samir Gandhi, Aditi Gopalakrishnan, Rinki Ganguli, Punita Gupta, Pragya Sood, Harshit Chandra, Himanshoo Tembe, Nikita Agarwal,
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2,400Jul 2019
$13.8m Excel Industries buy of NetMatrix (July ‘19)Excel IndustriesVaidhyanadhan Iyer, Vasudha Asher,
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14Jul 2019
Ola Electric Mobility charges to unicorn in $250m round SoftbankSoftbankSrinath Dasari, Nanditha Gopal,Khaitan & Co
Rajaram Legal
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250Jul 2019
Continues growing 1MG ties $70m Series DCorisol
International Finance Corporation
Anil Kasturi, Anisha Shridhar, Prerana Malhotra, Rohit Dutta,Link Legal India Law Services (LLILS)
Themis Associates
Sequoia Capital
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas
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70Jun 2019
Michael & Susan Dell $1m Workex investmentMichael & Susan Dell FoundationHardeep Sachdeva, Priyamvada Shenoy, Rukmani Seth,
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1Jun 2019
Manulife $35m buy into Mahindra mutual funds (Jun ‘19)Manulife Asset ManagementRushabh Maniar,
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35Jun 2019JV
Mankekar fam $19m MyGlamm beauty investment (Jun ‘19);Kedar MankekarAnand Shah, Shriram Shah,
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19Jun 2019
HDFC $196m HDFC buy of Apollo Munich insuranceHDFCAshwath Rau, Rajendra Barot, Kashish Bhatia, Arvind Ramesh, John Adwet Raghav, Rishikesh Desai,
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196Jun 2019
$5.7m JM Financial buy into Coinbatore co living operator Isthara Parks (Jun ‘19)JM FinancialAnand Shah, Ishan Handa,
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6Jun 2019
Creditors $1.2bn insolvency sale of Deccan Chronicle to Srei Vision India Fund (Jun ‘19)Committee of CreditorsPiyush Mishra, Suharsh Sinha, Hufriz Wadia,
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1,200Jun 2019insolvency
LGT Group buy of WGC Wealth (Jun ‘19)LGT GroupRushabh Maniar, Palak Khandelwal, Shivanand Nayak, Apeksha Mattoo,
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Jun 2019
Mitsubishis 25% buy into TVS around $35mTVS Automobile SolutionsSrinath Dasari, Samir Gandhi, Nanditha Gopal, Rahul Satyan, Pranav Mody, Shantanu Singh,Trilegal
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35Jun 2019JV
Do $5.6m ex Tiger Tanglin investment in home appliance maker Lifelong lineLifelong Online RetailAnil Kasturi, Anisha Shridhar, Prerana Malhotra,Khaitan & Co
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6May 2019
Intl Paper $119m sale of Indian unit to West Coast Paper Mills (May ‘19)International Paper APPMSrinath Dasari, Nanditha Gopal,
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119May 2019
K $38m Series C into Chennai Uniphore speech recognition (May ‘19)National Grid PartnersSrinath Dasari, Nanditha Gopal, Malaveeka Chakravarthy,Anoma Legal
K Law
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38May 2019
JMP, India leg of insurance tech player Vertafores buy of VUE Software,
(Foreign deal: US)
Ashwath Rau, Anu Tiwari,Jerome Merchant + Partners
Gunster
Kirkland & Ellis
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May 2019
$46m SRF sale of plastics business to DSM India (May ‘19)SRFDaksh Trivedi, Sourya Donkada,
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46May 2019
Translumina Therapeutics buy of Integris Health (May ‘19)Translumina Therapeutics LLP
Integris Health
Gautam Saha, Dushyant Bagga, Nikhil Bahl,
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May 2019
Bharti Airtel $14m HCIL merger of VSAT operationsBharti Airtel
Bharti Airtel Services
Vinati Kastia, Abhishek Shinde, Bharat Apte, Harsh Kabra, Shantanu Tiwari,
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14May 2019
KKR, GIC in $363m bet IndiGrid ()KKRAshwath Rau, Atreya Bhattacharya, Aditi Gopalakrishnan, Pranav Atit, Raina Upadhyay, Gaurav Bansal,Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Nishith Desai Associates
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Khaitan & Co
Nishith Desai Associates
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363May 2019
IFC in $23m Srinivasa Farms investment (May ‘19)International Finance Corporation (“IFC”)Gautam Saha, Heena Singh, Roy George,
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23May 2019
JM P Shuttl $13.3m Series B FIVE other law firmsPROOF.VCBhuvana Veeraragavan,Jerome Merchant + Partners
Link Legal India Law Services (LLILS)
Phoenix Legal
Novojuris
Themis Law Associates
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13Apr 2019
$20m Camden Town Tech VC investment (Apr ‘19)Camden Town TechnologiesAnu Tiwari, Aditya Alok,
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20Apr 2019
$39m Quess Corp by of Chennais Allsec Tech (Apr ‘19)First Carlyle VenturesAshwath Rau, Kashish Bhatia, Armaan Patkar,J Sagar Associates (JSA)
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
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39Apr 2019
Brookfield buy of two Axis Wind Farms $72mBrookfield Asset ManagementAnil Kasturi, Nandita Govind, Siddharth Khanna, Shreya Basu, Anshuman Singh, Paulose Abraham, Priyanka Hazarika, Urmika Tripathi, Karan Mehra, Diksha Singh,
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72Apr 2019
Warburg $39m, 22% investment by UK Climate Investments Apollo (Apr ‘19)Warburg PincusAnil Kasturi, Ashish Pareek,
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39Apr 2019
S, GA buy of Rubicon ResearchRubicon ResearchBharucha & Partners
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Apr 2019
NIIT Tech buy of Whishworks IT consulting company (Apr ‘19)WHISHWORKS IT ConsultingMedha Marathe,
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Apr 2019
India leg of USVertafore buy of insurtech player VUE (Apr ‘19)
(Foreign deal: US)
VertaforeAshwath Rau, Anu Tiwari,
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Apr 2019
Is $30m injection Pine Labsacquisition of Qwikcilver (Apr ‘19)Actis CapitalVaidhyanadhan Iyer, Sneha Nagvekar,
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30Apr 2019