LAWYER PROFILE

Nallini Puri

Global 2026

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

Ranked in 1 practice area

Corporate/M&A

India

4 years ranked

About

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Global

Practice Areas

Nallini Puri’s practice focuses on cross border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and franchising transactions. She has advised multinational corporates, private equity funds and sovereign wealth funds on their investments in UK, Europe and India.

Nallini’s recent work includes advising Veolia on its €2.4 billion divestment of the Suez UK waste business, Alstom in its €5.8 to €6.2 billion acquisition of Bombardier Transportation, Schibsted, the majority shareholder of Adevinta, in Adevinta’s $9.2 billion acquisition of eBay Classifieds and McDonald’s Corporation in the $2.08 billion formation of a joint venture with CITIC Limited and Carlyle to act as the franchisee for McDonald’s in China and Hong Kong.

Career

Nallini joined Cleary Gottlieb in 2008 and became a partner in 2018.

Professional Memberships

Senior Courts of England and Wales, New York, and India.

Chambers Review

Provided by Chambers

Chambers Global Guide

Corporate/M&A - India

India, expertise based abroad in UK

Individual Editorial

Nallini Puri is a London-based partner who covers a wide range of corporate and financial work, including acquisitions, joint ventures and de-SPAC transactions. Formerly practising within India itself, she has experience in advising corporate clients in the financial and healthcare sectors as well as sovereign wealth funds on their business activities in India.

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Strengths

Provided by Chambers

Nallini is very smart and dedicated. She has an excellent understanding of the geopolitical and commercial factors surrounding M&A work.
Corporate/M&AChambers Global Guide
Nallini Puri is an excellent lawyer with great commercial acumen who has the ability to efficiently handle complex cross-border matters with expertise.
Corporate/M&AChambers Global Guide
She is commercial and pragmatic. She is able to understand what her clients want and to deliver it very effectively.
Corporate/M&AChambers Global Guide