Concurrently with the corporate practice, our Mergers and Acquisitions team is dedicated to providing committed, innovative and resourceful solutions that reflect our many years of experience and insight into the specialized demands of each transaction. The capability of our firm includes a full range of merger and acquisition activities for listed, public (un-listed) and private companies. Transaction sizes vary from very large mergers to medium and even small private acquisitions and dispositions. We have represented both acquirers and sellers in highly complex and large transactions. We also work very closely with merchant bankers. Our experience includes the full range of Mergers & Acquisitions activity conducting legal due diligences, structuring and negotiating transactions, including amalgamations, mergers, assets and stock transactions in both friendly and hostile takeovers.
We understand and appreciate clients' need to have responsive, experienced and commercially oriented legal advice in the context of acquisition and investment transactions. PSA lawyers are accustomed to managing projects in order to optimize legal resources in a way that focuses on our clients' immediate objectives which may be identifying deal-breakers or value drivers or potential litigious risks. The breadth and diversity of our practice keeps us in close contact with current market standards. As a result, our lawyers are particularly adept at structuring market-responsive transactions.
The range of the Firm's experience includes representations of :
- Prominent global companies (both manufacturing and services) in multi-jurisdictional acquisitions of listed and unlisted companies and, as a consequence of such acquisitions, establishing diverse types of business operations in India;
- Indian companies venturing overseas by means of strategic alliances, technology arrangements, and other diverse business relationships;
- Freight forwarding company in acquisitions involving multiple jurisdictions – US, India, France, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh;
- One of the world’s largest steel companies in its entry and acquisition of business in India with a transaction value in excess of $500 million;
- Technology companies engaged in aerospace, automotive, telecom activities in multi-jurisdictional locations, and negotiating diverse types of contracts, escrow arrangements, payment mechanisms etc.;
- A German company engaged in the manufacture, development of bimetals, parts and components in its acquisition of an Indian company;
- European and North American process equipment manufacturing and engineering company in its Indian entry strategy, acquisition of listed companies, and delisting regulations.
