The market holds Link Legal India Law Services in high regard for its strengths in aviation, construction, energy and infrastructure work. The firm is a first port-of-call for infrastructure players due to its vast experience in large scale, long-term infrastructure projects, regulator relationships, and ability to go beyond transaction basics into extra layers of service like financing insurance. The firm made some notable hires recently, such as dispute resolution partner Sanjay Gupta from Bhasin & Co, litigation specialist Sarojanand Jha, and corporate partners Namita Das and Vijay Surekha, both from Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co. In February 2020, the firm acquired capital markets boutique ‘JPS Legal’ to shore up its capital markets offering. Atul Sharma and Nusrat Hassan are key partners for energy and infrastructure, and corporate and M&A, respectively.
“Its staff are well-experienced, have a friendly nature and are easy to access.” – Banking and finance
“The firm was responsive, reliable and commercial.”– Corporate and M&A
“The guidelines provided were good.” – Corporate and M&A
“We like the firm’s responsiveness and its sector knowledge.” – Infrastructure
“Showed professionalism, value for money and good knowledge level.” – Private equity
“The team’s positive attributes include strong technical expertise, well-balanced advice and direct partner involvement in all aspects of the assignment. The team is well-experienced, have professional conduct, and a good price point. Link Legal has always been a tremendous support and manages to address all around queries to ensure holistic support on all assignments.” – Restructuring and insolvency
“He helps make use of the most important guidelines for our work.”
“The profound corporate and transaction knowledge, and expertise that he brings to the table, and his ability to provide immediate and out-of-the-box solutions is impressive. He has high legal, logical and analytical capabilities which display a great deal of creativity for legal problem-solving.”
“Good with research and the application of the research for problem-solving.”
“She is an excellent thinker, meticulous, thorough, responsive and well-experienced. She is a problem-solver, and even-tempered to handle stressful matters.”
“She was a good communicator, proactive, commercial and explained the relevant law clearly and concisely, and how that impacted on the matters at hand. She also stuck to her estimated timing to revert.”
Acted for Ramky Enviro Engineers as the target in its sale of a 60% stake to Metropolis Holdings, a KKR company, for $530 million. This was KKR’s first investment in the environment sector worldwide.
Advised Hindustan Media Ventures on its advertisement-for-equity transaction with Snapdeal.
Represented Xiaomi Singapore on its Series B1 investment in AI keyboard company, Talent Unlimited Online Services.
Kalpavriksh Fund, Lightspeed Indian Partners, Morningside Venture Capital, Qiming Venture Partners
Represented the members of the Independent Power Producers Association of India in a writ petition case challenging sections of the Banking Regulation Act. The outcome was a landmark judgement passed by the Supreme Court which has curtailed the powers of the banking regulator by declaring a circular issued by the RBI had no effect in law.
Acted for Wapcos in a dispute arising out of the construction of the Aghan-India Friendship Dam, a landmark infrastructure project undertaken by India in Afghanistan that will irrigate land and generate power.
Clean Sustainable Energy, Delhi Aviation Fuel Facility, Delhi International Airport, Drake & Scull Water and Energy India
Advising the resolution professional and Duff & Phelps India concerning the insolvency resolution process of Gitanjali Gems. The team is also providing litigation support in various courts and tribunals.
Representing the resolution professional and BDO India with regards to the insolvency resolution process of Jyoti Structures, with wind-up valued at $1.1 billion. This matter was one of the first cases to be referred to the National Company Law Tribunal pursuant to the list of 12 companies mandated by the Reserve Bank of India under India’s insolvency and bankruptcy code.
Adani Group, Aditya Birla, Tata Capital, Xander Finance
Advised Gail India regarding its participation in the bid process for the acquisition of wind power assets that are jointly owned and operated by IL&FS group and Orix Corporation.
Acted for Megha Engineering and Infrastructures in the acquisition of the oil and gas division of the Trevi Group.
Chennai Port Trust, Den Networks, Enstage Software, First Tek Services, Mohalla Tech, Venus Remedies
Advised Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals on its maiden issue of listed, unsecured, rated, taxable, redeemable, non-convertible debentures on a private placement basis.
Acted for SBI Cards and Payment Services on the issuance of listed debentures ad a private placement.
Asirvaad Microfinance, Brooks Laboratories, Dredging Corporation of India
Representing SpiceJet in proceedings initiated against various India airlines in respect of alleged concerned actions by various airlines in fixing fuel surcharges for transporting cargo.
Acting for L&T Infra Debt Fund and L&T Infrastructure Finance on their loan to RDA Energy, which is engaged in operating a solar power project at Mograle Village in Maharashtra.
Assisted India Infradebt on its facility to NVR Renew to fund the operation of its solar power project in Karnataka.
HDFC Bank, NIIF Infrastructure Finance, State Bank of India, Tata Cleantech Capital
