The firm enters the Investment funds ranking at ‘Notable’ this year. Anindya Ghosh, Basava Rao and Namita Viswanath entered the partnership, while M Arun Kumar joined the construction and banking practices.
Banking and finance
Work highlights
Worked, as borrowers’ counsel, with Engie’s SolaireDirect on L&T Finance’s refinancing of five solar power special purpose vehicles in Rajasthan and Punjab in northern India.
Key clients
Axis Bank, BlackSoil Capital, FMO, IndusInd Bank, Piramal Finance, Vatika
Construction
Work highlights
Instructed by SB Energy, the team is drafting and negotiating the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts for solar power projects totalling more than 400MW.
The firm is also helping to handle the EPC contracts for SoftBank to develop solar power farms in Saudi Arabia. SoftBank and Saudi Arabia signed a memorandum of understanding in March 2018 for an ambitious renewable energy project: a $200 billion, 200GW solar project stretching to 2030.
Key clients
Canadian Solar, GE, ReNew Power, SB Energy, SoftBank
Corporate and M&A
Work highlights
Advised online classified advertising platform Quikr on its Re3.6 billion acquisition of HDFC Developers and HDFC Realty, HDFC’s digital real estate and realty brokerage divisions.
Key clients
AgreeYa, Ebix, Facebook, Exotel Techcom, InfraCo Asia, India Power, Nearbuy, Quikr, Reliance Jio, Wipro, Zynga
Dispute resolution
Work highlights
Defending Torque Pharma, the team is battling AFD in a trade mark infringement and passing off case. At this stage, the team has successfully challenged an interim injunction. The suit about infringement of the Bedex brand continues.
Key clients
ADL, Galatea, GTL Torque Pharma, RKSV Securities, Sarine Technologies
Intellectual property
Work highlights
Worked with Naspers’ PayU on its cross-border investment into Paysense. The team conducted contractual and intellectual property due diligence on the investee company. Afterwards, they recommended revisions to the agreements between Paysense and its non-banking financial services partner. The transaction was PayU’s entry into India’s financial technology industry.
Key clients
ADL, Galatea, PayU, Shunwei, Xiaomi, Zynga
Labour and employment
Work highlights
Assisted Citius Communications by drafting an employee handbook and labour policies under Indian laws. It is an important assignment as the client is expanding its workforce.
Key clients
Airbnb, Citius Communications, Kendle, QuEST Global Engineering Services, Wipro
Private equity
Work highlights
Worked with Oyo Rooms, a domestic hospitality service and budget hotel network, and its founder on its $250 million-plus series D round investment by Softbank Vision Fund, Hero Enterprise and early investors including Sequoia Capital.
Key clients
Accel, Mahindra Partners, Nexus Ventures, OrbiMed Oak Investment Partners, Oyo Rooms
Client feedback
“They are timely, accessible, and open to fixed fee and other fee arrangements. They also quickly pull in partners and teams from other domains and thus provide a one-stop shop for complex scenarios.” – Dispute resolution, Labour and employment, Real estate, Regulatory
“I'm very happy with the quality of services. They are proactive, commercially savvy and, very importantly, understand our way of operating and thinking and can apply it in different circumstances without necessarily requiring specific input from me.” – Investment funds, Private equity
“The firm is extremely dynamic, client and timeline committed. The lawyers are practical and solution oriented.” – Banking and finance, Regulatory
“Very responsive, highly knowledgeable and adaptive to client requirements” – Investment funds, Labour and employment, Privacy and data protection
“IndusLaw and particularly partner Avik Biswas are superb. Very experienced, extremely responsive, and skilled in assisting a multinational navigate the laws and culture of India.” – Labour and employment, Privacy and data protection
“Avik is wonderful. He is extremely skilled, pragmatic and creative. Exactly the kind of employment and labour lawyer a multinational in India needs.” “Good, knowledgeable and hard working. It was a complex, time critical transaction, and he worked on weekends and even when he was ill, and closed the transaction positively.” - Avik Biswas
“Avirup is one of the brightest and finest lawyers I have known. Avirup's command over his area is phenomenal and has always been able to think out of the box. He is always prompt with his responses.” - Avirup Nag
“He is a highly skilled litigation lawyer, easily accessible and solution oriented. He would do even better by increasing his network with other competent litigation lawyer and collaborating across regions.” - Lomesh Nidumuri
“Extremely customer friendly, agile and has good knowledge of the subject.” “Excellent.” “Good at explaining to the client and opposing party on the right deal which can be completed.” - Nishant Singh
“He is an upcoming litigation lawyer to watch out for. Highly responsive and building good skills in the litigation field.” - Palecanda Chinnappa
“Very calm and collected and able to come to the core issues quickly. Business friendly and does not waste time arguing on less important items.” “Great knowledge, hands on and very experienced.” - Suneeth Katarki"
“She is extremely diligent, responsive and bright. Definitely a rising star.” - Winnie Shekhar
“Excellent.” - Karthik Ganapathy
