Founded in 1991,
J Sagar Associates is one of the foremost law firms in India with offices in Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Gurugram, Hyderabad,
Mumbai and New Delhi. Key figures at the firm include joint managing
partner Amit Kapur and Vivek Chandy.
The firm is known for its strong banking and finance and project development work.
The firm’s flagship banking practice is experienced in an array of domestic and
cross-border financing transactions.
The firm has extensive expertise in project finance and also advises on trade finance, real estate finance, and leveraged finance.
In capital markets, the firm advises on a host of matters including INVITS and REITS listings and offerings, delistings, buy-backs, rights issues, debenture issues, and qualified institutional placements.
The corporate team’s
expertise
covers mergers, acquisitions, demergers, buyouts,
divestments and tender offers. The firm also has a robust private equity practice and is engaged by private equity funds, hedge funds, incubators, and venture capital funds.
In the projects front, the firm focuses on energy, oil and gas, transport, infrastructure,
utilities and telecommunications.
Notable clients include
State Bank of India, Ares SSG, Goldman Sachs, DBS Bank,
Citigroup,
Standard Chartered Bank, Data Infrastructure Trust, Google,
Microsoft and Singapore Telecommunications.
Research period review:
33rd edition (2022/2023)
The banking team was active on
a very high volume of mandates and often acted on the side of financial institutions. It also advised on financial services regulatory matters.
In the capital markets
area the firm advised on debt and equity transactions. In the debt side, the firm regularly acted for clients such as issuers and arrangers on debenture and bond issues. In capital markets equity, the firm worked for issuers on IPOs.
In corporate and M&A and private equity work, a standout deal saw the firm act for Mindtree on its amalgamation into Larsen & Toubro Infotech leading to the biggest merger in the IT space in India until now.
The firm was also active in project development projects, especially on Infrastructure, energy, telecommunications networks and transport.
In restructuring and insolvency, the firm
mainly advised financial restructuring.
The M&A team welcomed
Siddharth Mody, Rahul Deodhar, Abhijeet Sonawane, Shraddha Krishnan Das, Varun Sehgal, Gaurav
Wahie, Anirudh Kapoor, Saurya
Bhattacharya and Ritesh Kumar.
Fatema
Kachwalla, Aditi Deshpande and Megha Saraf in the insolvency and restructuring team promoted to partner. The firm also hired partner
Sumitava Basu to the team.
Deal highlights:
33rd edition (2022/2023)
Archean Chemical Industries IPO
BCP Topco XII $180 million acquisition finance
Committee of Creditors for Reliance Infratel restructuring
EXIM Global
$10 billion medium term note program
Indian Railway Finance Corporation
$1.1 billion green loan facility
