AZB & Partners and Linklaters have advised Japanese financial services group Orix on its $980 million investment in India’s Greenko Energy Holdings (GEH), which was represented by Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas and King & Spalding.

According to Reuters, Orix will take a stake of more than 20 percent in Greenko within this year.  

Orix Group offers leasing, lending, rentals, life insurance, real estate financing and development, venture capital, investment and retail banking, commodities funds and securities brokering in 37 countries and regions.

Meanwhile, Hyderabad-based GEH is the parent company of Greenko Group, and manufactures wind, hydro, and solar energy generation machinery facilities across India.

A Trilegal team led by partner Nisha Kaur Uberoi advised both GEH and ORIX on the competition law aspects.

 

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