“Visa takes minority stake in Billdesk, valuation hits $1.8 billion: Visas investment and collaboration will help BillDesk develop new product lines for its payments and loyalty businesses,” reported The Economic Times. “The transaction involves a primary investment of about $200 million with a secondary purchase of shares from existing investors and founders of $80-100 million, according to one person briefed on the matter.”

AZB & Partners advised Visa International Service Association led by a team of partners Ashwath Rau, Anu Tiwari, Aditya Singh Chandel, Akansha Agarwal, Samir Gandhi, Rahul Rai, Ami Parikh and lawyers Vipul Jain, Tanya Pahwa, Rahul Satyan, Akshat Kulshrestha, Kirti Balasubramanian, Utkarsh Bhatnagar, Arunima Chatterjee, Pranav Modi, Nripi Jolly, Shivam Dubey, Shruti Sundararajan.

Update 29 May 2019: J Sagar Associates advised Claymore Investments (Mauritius) Pte Ltd, a Temasek entity, led by a team including partners Jamshed Bhumgara and Bir Bahadur S Sachar, and associate Urmika Agarwal. Also involved were partners Amitabh Kumar and Vaibhav Choukse; senior associates Ela Bali and Unnati Agrawal; and associate Diksha Rai, who advised on merger control related aspects.

Update 04 July 2019: Bharucha Singh Mundkur advised General Atlantic led by partner Vandana Pai.

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas represented Indiaideas.com, which operates Billdesk.

2018-11-16

Deal value: Not disclosed

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