Capital Markets
Asia-Pacific Guide 2025 : India
Band 2
Contact number
022-40791000About
Provided by Trilegal
Extensive experience in advising issuers and investment banks on a broad range of domestic and international transactions in the debt and equity markets
Our capital markets team provides a full spectrum of services that include routinely advising clients on equity and debt capital market transactions. We assist companies with the issuance of equity and equity-linked instruments including initial public offerings, preferential issues, private placements, qualified institutional placements, foreign currency convertible bonds and overseas listings of global depository receipts. Our lawyers have extensive experience working on business trust and REIT transactions in India and Singapore.
Our debt capital markets practice spans non-convertible debentures, medium-term note programmes, certificates of deposit, commercial papers and high-yield bonds.
We have worked on some of the most complex and significant transactions in India. Our client roster includes prominent Indian and foreign companies, underwriters, foreign portfolio investors, banks, venture capitalists, and leading asset management companies.
Our capital markets team works closely with the firm's regulatory, banking and finance, litigation, restructuring and other specialist teams to develop commercially viable solutions that often incorporate precedent-setting financing techniques in the industry.
Chambers Review
Trilegal's team of capital markets lawyers in India regularly advises underwriters, foreign investors, investment funds and issuers. The firm is well-regarded for its expertise in issues regarding IPOs, QIPs and rights issues. The team is able to draw on the strength of its banking practice for debt capital markets issues. The department often handles transactions pertaining to the technology, retail and life sciences sectors, among others.
Work Highlights
- Trilegal represented the book-running lead managers on the approximately USD337 million IPO by JSW Infrastructure.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The firm has an excellent understanding of the underlying businesses and the complexity associated with various business segments. They always have a solution to problems."
"They are phenomenal in terms of their passion for work and responding to every one of our concerns."
"The firm has an excellent understanding of the underlying businesses and the complexity associated with various business segments. They always have a solution to problems."
"They are phenomenal in terms of their passion for work and responding to every one of our concerns."
Notable Practitioners
Bhakta Patnaik is a capital markets partner based in Trilegal's Mumbai office. He specialises in both equity and debt markets. He undertakes a body of work that encompasses QIPs, IPOs, rights issues and note offerings.
"Bhakta is a well-balanced and solid lawyer. He is articulate and is able to convey even difficult messages with ease. A patient lawyer who has helped build the capital market practice at Trilegal."
"A master in his art. He uses his experience to understand the client's issues and situation and comes up with excellent solutions to meet the desired outcome."
Richa Choudhary in Mumbai is recognised as an up-and-comer due to her equity capital markets experience. She often acts for selling shareholders and issuers on IPOs.
"Richa is an extremely good partner. She is reliable, solution-oriented and provides quick turnaround time."
Vijay Parthasarathi co-heads Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas' capital markets practice in South India, where he is well reputed for various types of capital raisings, including IPOs and QIPs.
"Vijay is very involved. My inclination to work with CAM was because of him. The kind of comfort he gives is unmatchable."
Murtaza Zoomkawala is noted for advising issuers and underwriters on a broad range of capital markets instruments, including sustainability-linked notes, NCDs and MTN programmes.
Ranked Lawyers at
Trilegal
India