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Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

AZB & Partners

Axiata and Bharti Airtel’s agreement to merge operations in Bangladesh

$1.85 billion

Bharti Airtel Limited

Gautam Saha (Partner)

 

Heena Singh

(Associate)

AZB & Partners

Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV’s acquisition of SABMiller

$104 billion

 

Samir Gandhi (Partner)

 

Rahul Rai, Fadi Metanios, Shruti Aji Murali, Indrajeet Sircar

(Associates)

AZB & Partners

Acquisition of minority stake by Blackstone of IBS Software from General Atlantic Partners

$128 million

General Atlantic Partners

Ashwin Ramanathan, Nilanjana Singh (Partners)

 

Sugandha Asthana (Associate)

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas

RMZ Infotech’s acquisition of Essar’s Equinox Business Park

$353 million

RMZ Infotech Private Limited

Reeba Chacko

(Partner)

DSK Legal

RMZ Infotech’s acquisition of Essar’s Equinox Business Park

$353 million

Essar Group entities

Sajit Suvarna

(Partner)

Khaitan & Co

Nspira Management Services Private Limited’s issuance of non-convertible debentures

$59 million

CX Partners Pte Ltd

Joyjyoti Misra

(Partner)

 

Ashwin Bishnoi

(Associate Partner)

 

Monika Srivastava, Shailendra Bhandare

(Principal Associates)

 

Shruti Singh

(Senior Associate)

 

Sara Rashid Khan, Bhaskar Banerjee, Rupsa Mitra, Akshat Gupta, Shreya Shree

(Associates)

Khaitan & Co

International Finance Corporation’s updation of “maharaja” bond programme

$27 million

 

Manisha Shroff

(Associate Partner)

 

Soumya Mohapatra

(Principal Associate)

 

Krishnendu Sen, Bidya Mohanty

(Associates)

Khaitan & Co

Softbank’s investment in Housing.com

$15 million

Housing.com

Haigreve Khaitan

(Partner)

 

Vineet Shingal

(Associate Partner)

 

Namrata Mehta

(Senior Associate)

Nishith Desai Associates

Birla Corporation’s acquisition of Reliance Cement

$710 million

Birla Corp

 

Nishith Desai Associates

Setting up of a National Investment and Infrastructure Fund by Government of India

 

NIIF

 

Veritas Legal

Apcotex Industries’ acquisition of OMNOVA Solutions India Private Limited

$5.3 million

Apcotex Industries Limited

Abhijit Joshi

(Partner)

 

Kunal Doshi, Tejasvi Saxena, Rumma Panchmatia

(Associates)

Veritas Legal, Shyamalene Siqueira

Sale of the Hyatt Regency, Pune, by SAMHI

 

Ascent Hotels Pvt. Ltd

Abhijit Joshi

(Partner)

 

Tushar Raut

(Associate)

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Bangladesh

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Allen & Overy

Robi Axiata’s merger with Airtel Bangladesh

 

Axiata Group Berhad

Chris Moore,

Michael Reede

(Partners)

 

Lynn Soh, Nicole Rondy, Ayesha Thapar, Keara Stretton and Ban-Ya Yim, Gareth Banfield

(Associates)

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Singapore

Firm

Deal

Value

Client

Lawyer(s) involved

Allen & Gledhill

HDB’s issuance of fixed rate notes

S$1 billion

($718 million)

Housing and Development Board

Sunit Chhabra, Margaret Chin

(Partners)

Allen & Gledhill

Parkway’s joint venture to establish a hospital in Yangon

$70 million

Parkway Healthcare Indo-China Pte. Ltd

Oh Hsiu Hau, Minn Naing Oo, Fock Kah Yan

(Partners)

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