Abhinav Kumar
Asia-Pacific Guide 2024
Band 3 : Capital Markets: Equity
Band 3
About
Provided by Abhinav Kumar
Practice Areas
Partner and Regional Head (West), Markets
Abhinav has over 15 years of experience in advising on capital markets transactions and focuses on a variety of capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings, follow-on offerings, rights issues, QIPs, preferential issues and secondary trades. He also regularly advises merchant bankers on risk analysis and SEBI related advisory.
Relevant Experience:
• Qualified Institutions Placement by Bajaj Finance Limited in November 2023
• Qualified Institutions Placement by Aditya Birla Capital Limited in June 2023
• Initial public offering of Rainbow Children’s Medicare Limited in April 2022
• Initial public offering of FSN E-Commerce Ventures Limited (Nykaa) in November 2021
• Initial public offering of Aditya Birla Sun Life AMC Limited in October 2021
• Qualified Institutions Placement of Zydus Wellness Limited in September 2020.
• Qualified Institutions Placement of ICICI Bank Limited in August 2020.
• Rights issue by Aditya Birla Fashion Retail Limited in July 2020.
• Initial public offering and QIP of Avenue Supermarts Limited in March 2017 and February 2020.
• Secondary trades by Standard Life Aberdeen of shares held in HDFC Life Insurance Company Limited and HDFC Asset Management Company Limited between 2019 and 2022
• Rights issue by Piramal Enterprises Limited in January 2020.
• Rights issue by Vodafone Idea Limited in May 2019.
• Qualified Institutions Placement by Bajaj Finance Limited in November 2019.
• Dollar bonds issuance by Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone limited in July 2020, 2018 and 2016.
• Qualified Institution Placement by Hindalco Industries Limited in March 2017.
• Initial public offering of Larsen & Toubro Infotech Limited in 2016.
• Initial public offering of Infibeam Incorporation Limited in 2016.
• Initial public offering of L&T Technology Services Limited in 2016
• Initial public offering of Sadbhav Infrastructure Project Limited in 2015.
• Rights issue by Indian Hotels Company Limited in 2014 and 2017.
Others:
Visiting faculty for Securities Law course at Government Law College, Mumbai for 2018 - 23
Professional Memberships
Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa, India
Education
B.A. LLB., National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata, 2008
Awards
Ranked ‘Band 3’ for Capital Markets: Equity
Chambers and Partners
2024
Ranked ‘Band 4’ for Capital Markets: Equity
Chambers and Partners
2023
Ranked ‘Notable Practitioner’ for Capital Markets
AsiaLaw
2023
Awarded 40 under 40
BW Legal World
2022
Awarded Top 50 Future Leaders
Indian Business Law Journal
2020
40 Under 40 - Rising Star Lawyer of the year
Legal ERA
2021
'Up and Coming Future Leaders'
IBLJ Future Legal Leaders
2021
Ranked ‘Notable Practitioner’ for Capital Markets: Equity
IFLR1000, 2023- 2020
Chambers Review
Asia-Pacific
Abhinav Kumar is a partner at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas' Mumbai office. He advises clients on large-scale equity transactions, with his client base including leading financial institutions.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Histechnical skills are commendable, but at the same time, he is quite commercially sound and solutions-oriented. It is comforting to have him on the execution side of things."
"Histechnical skills are commendable, but at the same time, he is quite commercially sound and solutions-oriented. It is comforting to have him on the execution side of things."