Pranav Trivedi

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Practice Areas

Pranav L. Trivedi is head of Skadden’s London office. His practice focuses on international corporate finance, including initial public offerings and privatisations, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and private equity.

Mr. Trivedi represents U.S. and Western European companies in corporate finance and M&A transactions involving companies throughout Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia.

Work Highlights

Mr. Trivedi’s experience in corporate finance transactions includes representing:

- the lead underwriters in the US$400 million IPO of ordinary shares of Segezha Group PJSC on the Moscow Exchange;

- Fix Price in its US$2 billion IPO of global depositary receipts (GDRs) and dual listing on the London and Moscow stock exchanges. This is the largest-ever IPO by a Russian retailer;

- the underwriters in the US$525 million initial public offering of SVF Investment Corp., and the underwriters in the US$280 million initial public offering of Class A ordinary shares of SVF Investment Corp. 3, both SPACs sponsored by SoftBank Investment Advisers, the investment manager to SoftBank Vision Funds;

- National Atomic Company Kazatomprom and Sovereign Wealth Fund Samruk-Kazyna (as selling shareholder) in Kazatomprom’s US$451 million IPO and listings on the London Stock Exchange and the Astana Exchange;

- HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. as lead underwriter in multiple debt offerings by HSBC Holdings plc, raising in aggregate in excess of US$47 billion;

- Barclays Bank PLC, HSBC Bank plc and J.P. Morgan Securities plc as lead underwriter in the Republic of Italy’s offering of US$7 billion of fixed rate global notes with maturities of 5, 10 and 30 years registered under Schedule B of the U.S. Securities Act;

- TMF Group in connection with its proposed IPO and admission to listing on the premium segment of the London Stock Exchange;

- PIK Group, Russia’s leading residential property developer, in its buy-back and de-listing from the London Stock Exchange.

Mr. Trivedi’s experience in mergers and acquisitions in Russia includes, among other matters, representing:

- Kismet Acquisition One, a special purpose acquisition company, in its $1.9 billion initial merger with Nexters Global Limited, the first-ever de-SPAC transaction involving a Russian company. As a result of the merger, Nexters will become a publicly traded company;

- QIWI plc in connection with Otkritie’s US$700 million partial tender offer launched on June 16, 2017.