MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS AND PRIVATE EQUITY
Imperia Law has ample experience of working on transactions across industries of all sizes to provide integrated solution oriented advice. Our sector focused teams enable us to deal with and advise on complex legal issues in M&A transactions. The Firm handles a full range of M&A transactions including:
- Mergers & Amalgamations
- Schemes of Arrangement, Reconstruction and Demergers
- Acquisitions & Divestments - of shares, assets and businesses (private, public and listed entities)
- Leveraged Buy-outs
- Distressed Transactions; and
- Restructuring (for listed & unlisted entities), including Capital & Debt restructuring, buy-back of securities & reduction of capital.
The Firm's clients include large Indian Industrial Houses & Multinational corporations across industries. We work very closely with In-house counsels, Investment Banks and Accounting Firms to achieve seamless implementation of any M&A transaction.
We provide legal services to Private Equity and Venture Capital funds across the full range of their operations and activities. The areas in which we provide legal advice include:
- Fund formation
- Onshore & Offshore structuring
- Drafting offer documents for the raising of funds
- Tax & Securities registration issues in India
- Registration with regulatory authorities in India
- Due Diligence of prospective investee companies
- Negotiation assistance from term sheet stage till closing;
- Documentation & overall transactional support, including working closely with regulators like the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the Foreign Investment Promotion Board of India (FIPB) and the Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI), and
- Structuring incentives and sharing of the 'carry' for fund managers & research analysts.
We are well equipped to take a transaction from start to finish – and are known for expert advise on all ancillary aspects to an M&A matter such as post acquisition advisory, entity formation, applications for regulatory approvals, corporate secretarial matters etc. During any such transaction, the legal services of the Firm generally involve the following scope of services:
- Assisting in structuring of the transaction
- Consultancy during preliminary negotiations
- Preliminary review of the agreements
- Conducting legal due-diligence
- Assisting in obtaining regulatory approvals
- Finalizing all documents and agreements
