S&R Associates represented Firmenich International SA (“Firmenich”), the world’s largest privately-owned fragrance and taste company, Koninklijke DSM N.V. (“DSM”), a Dutch-Swiss company and health, nutrition & bioscience global leader, and Danube AG, a wholly-owned subsidiary of DSM, in obtaining Indian competition law approval for the merger between DSM and Firmenich to form DSM-Firmenich AG, a Swiss domiciled company whose shares are proposed to be listed on Euronext Amsterdam.
The S&R team was led by head of competition Simran Dhir and counsel Akshat Kulshrestha, and included associates Anuja Agarwal, Sushmita Sur, Samali Verma and Sakshi Jain on competition law matters; and partners Rajat Sethi and Dhruv Nath on corporate matters.