An extensive team at DSK Legal provides its clients with a comprehensive range of corporate services from mergers and acquisitions through to post-acquisition integrations and structurings. This is provided together with a range of financing advice, obtaining governmental approvals and regulatory matters. Managing partner Anand Desai is well known for his extensive negotiation and litigation skills while Hemang Parekh is a trusted advisor for complex mergers and acquisitions and private equity ventures. His clientele includes those from healthcare, pharmaceuticals, telecoms, e-commerce, food and agriculture. Other key practitioners include corporate specialist Ajay Shaw, Rishi Anand who provides a blend of corporate/commercial skills with technology expertise and Gaurav Mistry whose skillset is corporate, foreign investment and securities laws. Nakul Batra and Jayesh Kothari are also corporate/commercial facing partners.
Key clients
- Regency Hospital Limited
- Kotak Pre-IPO Opportunities Fund (Kotak Mahindra Trusteeship Services Limited through its investment manager, Kotak Investment Advisors Limited (“Kotak”))
- Bombay City Eye Institute & Research Centre Private
- Envision Eye Hospital
- Stelis Biopharma Limited
- Healthquad Fund I, acting through its Investment Manager Healthquad Capital Advisors Private Limited
- HealthQuad Fund IIand British International Investment (UK’s DFI)
Work highlights
- Advising Regency Hospital Limited and Promoters of Regency Hospital Limited and Healthquad Fund I and Kois Holdings in respect of a primary investment by Norwest Capital, LLC in the Company; and a secondary investment by Norwest by way of acquisition of entire shareholding of the Existing Investors and International Finance.
- Advising Kotak Pre-IPO Opportunities Fund (Kotak Mahindra Trusteeship Services Limited through its investment manager, Kotak Investment Advisors Limited in relation to its primary and secondary investment in Sahajanand Medical Technologies Limited.
- Advised Bombay City Eye Institute & Research Centre Private and Bombay City Eye Institute & Research Centre Private Limited and its promoters in relation to the sale of 100% of their shareholding in BCEI to ASG Hospital Private Limited for an aggregate consideration of INR 850,000,000 Rupees.
Lawyers
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Anand Desai