Akila Agrawal

Practice Areas

Akila is a Senior Partner and heads the Firm’s M&A practice. She is an expert in public M&A and has over 24 years of experience in matters pertaining to M&As, joint ventures, private equity investment, corporate restructuring, general corporate and employment law. She has extensively handled acquisitions, disposals, takeover offers, delisting offers, commercial contracts, and SEBI related matters. Akila has considerable national and international experience having served several significant clients across a broad range of industries and sectors.

Akila has been consistently ranked in Chambers Global and Chambers Asia Pacific for Corporate and M&A practice for several years. She has been recognised as ‘IBLJ A- List Lawyer’. IFLR, Legal Era and Asia Law leading lawyers features Akila among the top rated lawyers and ‘Leading Lawyer Champions’ in India for Corporate M&A. She has been recognised in Legal 500 and Who’s Who Legal, and recommended by RSG Consulting for excellence in M&A. She has also been named an M&A ‘Thought Leader’ in India, by Who’s Who Legal.

She has recently represented: The Coca-Cola Company in the sale of 40% stake in Hindustan Coca-Cola Holdings to the Jubilant Bhartia Group; Sale of four bottling undertakings of Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages to its franchise bottlers in India; Arcline Investment Management and its porfolio company Signia Aerospace in the acquisition of the Hoist and Winch business of Goodrich and Collins Aerospace; Persistent Systems Limited in the acquisition of Arrka Infosec Private Limited, Starfish Associates LLC and select assets from SoHo Dragon; GE Steam Power in the transfer of hydro and gas business undertakings of GE Power India Limited; GE Power Netherlands B.V. in the transfer of 49% equity shares and DVR held by Powerstatic Solutions India to Électricité de France; Collective Newsroom Private Limited (Collective Newsroom),

a new Indian owned and controlled entity set up by senior employees of British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in India, in connection with the acquisition of the digital news business of BBC’s subsidiary in India and continuing arrangements with the BBC; Dixon Technologies in the acquisition of minority stake in Aditya Infotech Limited and joint venture with HKC Corporation Limited; Bharti Group in the sale of 50% stake by to Brookfield REIT in Rostrum Realty for exchange of REIT Units; Pacific Avenue Capital Partners in the purchase the filtration business of Sogefi S.p.A. in India; Acquisition of Incapsulate LLC by Accenture Inc; and Azim Premji Trust in its various investment transactions.

Professional Memberships

• Asia Pacific Regional Forum Liaison Officer, Women Lawyers’ Committee, International Bar Association

• Enrolled with the Bar Council of Delhi, India

• Member of the Supreme Court Bar Association