FM’s capital markets team has been associated with trend-setting transactions in their area of practice. For instance, the Bharti Tele-ventures IPO, for which the firm was the legal advisor to the Lead Managers JM Morgan Stanley, was India’s first IPO to be conducted entirely through the book-building route.
Our funds practice team serves clients including domestic and offshore private investment funds, including hedge funds, private equity funds, venture capital funds, real estate funds and mutual funds. We advise our clients on all aspects of fund organisation, structuring, including domicile, exemptions on registrations, tax efficiency and commercial issues like fee and compensation structure. We offer a broad array of legal know-how to support the formation and ongoing operations of our fund clients, ranging from fund organization and management to tax and litigation counsel.
In advising our clients across a full range of issues that they face in today’s rapidly evolving and changing economic and regulatory environments, we combine the resources of our general corporate advisory, tax, securities and employment practice groups to provide the full array of services to funds.
Our private equity and corporate structuring lawyers assist domestic, multinational and foreign companies in making acquisitions and investments in Indian and abroad. Our experience covers the entire private equity spectrum, including structuring and making equity investments, negotiating bridge and debt financing for portfolio companies, structuring follow‐on investments and disposing of investments through private or public sales. The team also provides advisory services in many different commercial projects and transactions, such as corporate formation and regulatory compliance (including licenses and permits), mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, privatization, and various other investment transactions.
