Practice Areas
• Capital Markets
• Corporate / Mergers & Acquisitions
• Financial Services
• Private Equity & Venture Capital
• E–Commerce & Retail
• FinTech & Digital
• Microfinance
• Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare & Life Sciences
• Technology, Media & Telecommunications
Career
With over 19 years of experience, Srinath Dasari is a part of the Firm’s Corporate / M&A group. His broad experience ranges from private equity, venture capital, mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures to capital market transactions for domestic and international clients in diverse sectors, including TMT, healthcare and life sciences, financial services, retail and automotive. His clients include leading private equity investors and hedge funds. He was featured in the Economic Times’ prestigious ‘Forty under 40’ listing for 2018, which identifies India’s top 40 leaders under the age of 40. Chambers & Partners Asia– Pacific describes Srinath as being “well regarded in the private equity space for his experience handling private equity, venture capital and joint venture investments,” having a “wide breadth of knowledge of corporate financing and M&A, acting for a range of domestic and multinational clients” and being “highly active in the venture capital space, including early and late stage investments, as well as on traditional private equity transactions.”
Work Highlights
• Heubach GmbH and SK Capital Partners, LP on the Indian aspects of their acquisition of Clariant AG's global pigments business, for an agreed value of USD 950 million
• Tiger Global Management on numerous investments into and exits from India/South–East Asian technology companies, including unicorns such as Byju’s, Cred, Delhivery, Infra.Market, Groww, Moglix, Sharechat and Urban Company
• Warburg Pincus on its investments in Cartrade.com, Quikr.com and Capillary Technologies
• Wipro on its (i) USD 1.5 billion acquisition of Capco; (ii) the Indian aspects of its USD 700 million global acquisition of METRO AG’s Indian and European IT units; and (iii) acquisitions of Eximius Design, Encore Theme Technologies and Alight Solutions
• India–focused investors on transactions for WestBridge Capital, PremjiInvest and the TVS Group
• Hitachi–Wipro–Mmodal on multi–jurisdictional transactions with a significant Indian footprint, including (i) Hitachi on its USD 9.6 billion acquisition of GlobalLogic Inc.; and (ii) MModal LLC on the USD 1 billion sale of its technology business to 3M Company
