India

 

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

AZB & Partners

Orange’s acquisition of Airtel’s subsidiaries in Burkina Faso and Sierra Leone

 

Bharti Airtel Limited

Gautam Saha, Amrita Patnaik

(Partners)

 

Srishti Sharma (Associate)

AZB & Partners

IFC’s convertible loan for City Mart Holding’s expansion

$25 million

International Finance Corporation

Gautam Saha, Amrita Patnaik (Partners)

 

Swati Chauhan, Pallavi Meena (Associates)

AZB & Partners

TeamLeases’ IPO

$55 million

TeamLease

 

AZB & Partners

Fairfax Group’s acquisition of equity stake in ADI Finechem

$19 million

 

FIH Mauritius Investments, FIH Private Investments

Ashwin Ramanathan, Bhavi Sanghvi (Partners)

 

Medha Marathe, Palak Khandelwal, Archana Subramanian (Associates)

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas

Issuance of AAA (SO) rated Infrastructure Bond by Sterlite Grid’s East North Interconnection Company Limited

$135 million

Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited, IDFC Bank Limited

Santosh Janakiram

(Partner)

 

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas

TeamLeases’ IPO

$55 million

Underwriters

 

DLA Piper

TeamLeases’ IPO

$55 million

Underwriters

Timothy Franklyn

(Registered Foreign Lawyer)

J. Sagar Associates

Au Financiers’ sale of  stake in Au Housing to Kedaara Capital & Partners Group

 

Au Financiers

Sidharrth Shankar

(Partner)

 

Sumit Sinha

(Of counsel)

 

Prakriti Jaiswal

(Associate)

J. Sagar Associates

Birla Corporation’s acquisition of Reliance Cement

$710 million

Reliance Infrastructure Limited, Reliance Cement Company Private Limited

 

Dina Wadia, Jamshed Bhumgara

(Partners)

 

Manav Raheja, Kartikeya Dar, Upamanyu Talukdar, Viraj Bathe

(Associates)

Khaitan & Co

National Payment Corporation of India’s

private placement of equity shares

 

$20 million

National Payment Corporation of India

Sudhir Bassi

(Executive Director)

 

Madhur Kohli, (Associate Partner)

 

Aanchal Arora, Manish Chhangani, Nisarg Shah, Harsh Zaveri

(Associates)

Khaitan & Co

Sale of 51% stake in Indo Phyto Chemicals to Sequent Scientific Limited

 

Indo Phyto Chemicals Private Limited

Bharat Anand

(Partner)

 

Tanvi Kumar

(Senior Associate)

 

Vrinda Agarwal (Associate)

Nishith Desai Associates

Broadcast Audience Research Council’s joint venture with Tam Media Research Private Limited

 

Broadcast Audience Research Council

 

Trilegal

Essentra’s acquisition of Kamsri Printing & Packaging

 

Essentra

Kosturi Ghosh, Samsuddha Majumder

(Partners)

 

Wiseroy Damodaran, Nameer Khan, Rajat Doshi

(Associates)

Singapore

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Allen & Gledhill

Term loan facility to LMIRT Capital Pte. Ltd.

S$100 million

($71 million)

Borrower

Jafe Ng Vun Chung

(Partner)

Allen & Gledhill

Jurong Port Pte. Ltd.'s JV with Oiltanking Singapore Limited to develop a terminal in Jurong Port

 

Oiltanking Singapore Limited

Kenneth Lim

(Partner)

 

Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg

Creation of L Catterton by LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, Groupe Arnault and Catterton

 

LVMH/Groupe Arnault

 

Latham & Watkins

Creation of L Catterton by LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, Groupe Arnault and Catterton

 

Catterton

 

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy

I.C. Power Ltd.'s acquisition of Energuate

$299.5

million

Arranger: Credit Suisse

Parker Zhou

(Associate)

Morgan Lewis Stamford

I.C. Power Ltd.'s acquisition of Energuate

$299.5

million

Arranger: Credit Suisse

Zhi Chao Chor

(Associate)

Rajah & Tann

Creation of L Catterton by LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, Groupe Arnault and Catterton

 

Catterton

 

White & Case

I.C. Power Ltd.'s acquisition of Energuate

$299.5

million

I.C. Power Ltd

John Anderson Jr.

(Partner)

 

WongPartnership

I.C. Power Ltd.'s acquisition of Energuate

$299.5

million

I.C. Power Ltd

Ong Sin Wei,  Alvin Chia

(Partners)

 

WongPartnership

Creation of L Catterton by LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, Groupe Arnault and Catterton

 

LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton and Groupe Arnault

Low Kah Keong

(Partner)

 

WongPartnership

Jurong Port Pte. Ltd.'s JV with Oiltanking Singapore Limited to develop a terminal in Jurong Port

 

Jurong Port Pte. Ltd

Chan Sing Yee,  Ameera Ashraf,  Elaine Tan,  Dorothy Marie Ng,  Bonnie Wong

(Partners)

WongPartnership

Term loan facility to LMIRT Capital Pte. Ltd.

S$100 million

($71 million)

Lenders

Christy Lim

(Partner)

 

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