Jurisdiction – India
Firm Deal Value Client Lawyer(s) involved Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co Datamatics Global Services’ partnership with PreMedia Global Undisclosed Lexicon Publishing Services Gunjan Shah (Partner) Anubhuti Agarwal (Principal associate) Monika Srivastava (Associate) AZB & Partners (Mumbai) CVCI Group’s minority stake acquisition in Janalakshmi Financial Services Rs. 350 crores ($55 million) Alpha TC Holdings AZB & Partners (Bangalore) CVCI Group’s minority stake acquisition in Janalakshmi Financial Services Rs. 350 crores ($55 million) Janalakshmi Financial Services Pvt Ltd Srinath Dasari (Partner) Veena Ganesh (Associate) AZB & Partners Tata Capital’s acquisition of 9.32 percent stake in Janalakshmi Financial Services Rs. 750 million ($12.2 million) Tata Capital Ltd Abhijit Joshi (Partner) BMR Legal Datamatics Global Services’ partnership with PreMedia Global Undisclosed Lexicon’s investor: 1.JM Financial Amit Khansaheb (Partner) Vishruta Kaul (Managing associate) Vinayak Mishra (Senior associate) Rahul Chugh (Associate) DSK Legal Datamatics Global Services’ partnership with PreMedia Global Undisclosed Datamatics Global Services Ajay Shaw (Partner) Sulma Curmally (Senior associate) Aditee Mohta (Associate) IndusLaw Datamatics Global Services’ partnership with PreMedia Global Undisclosed Lexicon’s investor: 1.NEAIUV NEA Indo-US Venture Capital Kartik Ganapathy (Partner) Ashi Bhat (Associate) Luthra & Luthra Law Offices Ratnakar Bank’s acquisition of RBS' business banking, credit cards and residential mortgage businesses in India Undisclosed Ratnakar Bank Ltd Trilegal CVCI Group’s minority stake acquisition in Janalakshmi Financial Services Rs. 350 crores ($55 million) Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia Sridhar Gorthi, Kosturi Ghosh (Partners) Aninda Pal (Counsel) Kaushik Rajan (Senior associate) Ipsita Chowdhury, Meera Sreekumar (Associates) Universal Legal CDC’s direct equity investment in Rainbow Hospitals Rs. 100 crores ($16 million) Rainbow Hospitals Kavitha Vijay (Partner) Sameena Chatrapathy (Senior associate) Universal Legal CDC’s direct equity investment in Rainbow Hospitals Rs. 100 crores ($16 million) 1.CDC 2.Abraaj Group Ankit Majumdar (Partner) Anubhav Agarwal (Senior associate) Wadia Ghandy & Co CVCI Group’s minority stake acquisition in Janalakshmi Financial Services Rs. 350 crores ($55 million) CVCI Group Ankit Majumdar (Partner)
Jurisdiction – Malaysia
Firm Deal Value Client Lawyer(s) involved Ashurst Sona Petroleum Berhad’s initial public offering $160 million Lead managers: 1.CIMB Investment Bank 2.RHB Investment Bank Stuart Rubin (Partner) Ethan Perry (Counsel) Li Jiang (Associate)
Jurisdiction – Singapore
Firm Deal Value Client Lawyer(s) involved Allen & Gledhill United Envirotech’s proposed acquisition of Memstar Technology’s business, assets and principal subsidiary Undisclosed KKR China Water Investment Holdings Ltd Andrew Lim, Song Su-Min (Partners) Clifford Chance HSBC Insurance’s (Singapore) sale of its group term life and employee benefits business in Singapore to AXA Life Insurance Singapore Undisclosed 1.HSBC Insurance (Singapore) Pte Ltd 2. HSBC Ltd Lee Taylor, Amy Ho (Partners) Harpreet Singh Nehal (Senior counsel) Si Wei Chua, Satbir Walia (Associates)
Jurisdiction – Thailand
Firm Deal Value Client Lawyer(s) involved Baker & McKenzie Impact Exhibition Management Co’s establishment of Impact Growth REIT Undisclosed KASIKORNBANK Public Co Ltd Sorachon Boonsong, Chaveewan Likhitwattanacha, Theppachol Kosol, Aek Tantisattamo, Duangkamon Amkaew (Partners) International Legal Counsellors Thailand Impact Exhibition Management Co’s establishment of Impact Growth REIT Undisclosed Impact Exhibition Management Co Ltd
Jurisdiction – Vietnam
Firm Deal Value Client Lawyer(s) involved Asian Mineral Resources’ mining services contracts, equipment leasing arrangements and project financing for Ban Phuc Nickel Project $20 million (for project financing) Asian Mineral Resources Ltd
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