Khaitan & Co. Advises Advent International

Khaitan & Co. advised Advent International on sale of its entire shareholding in Bharat Serums and Vaccines Limited to Mankind Pharma Limited, in a bid process. The Firm advised on all aspect of the transaction, including vendor diligence, assistance with the bid process, negotiating and finalising transaction documents, and advising on competition law and other regulatory aspects. The deal value is USD 1.6 billion.

The core team consisted of Aakash Choubey (Partner), Aashutosh Sampat (Partner), Anshuman Mozumdar (Partner), Sameer Sah (Partner), Ayush Sinha (Senior Associate), Sagarika Chandel (Senior Associate), Abhishek Singh (Associate), Aditi Halder (Associate), Amogh Pareek (Associate), Ankush Unni (Associate) and Arun Kumar Balasundar (Associate) with assistance from the following:

Vendor diligence and: Abhiraj Gandhi (Partner), Adheesh Nargolkar (Partner), Anshul Prakash (Partner), Kartikey Mahajan (Partner), Riya Bhattacharjee (Partner), Supratim Chakraborty (Partner), Swathy Ramanath (Partner), Abhimanyu Pal (Counsel), Rishabh Vora (Counsel), Sumantra Bose (Counsel), Himanshu Tripathi (Principal Associate), Kruthi Murthy (Principal Associate), Anjuli Hora (Senior Associate), Bhavya Chengappa (Senior Associate), Ketan Jikar (Senior Associate), Shramana Dwibedi (Senior Associate), Sunaina Brahma (Senior Associate), Aayushi Singh (Associate), Ajeta Anand (Associate), Jishan Gaffar Dediwal (Associate), Paarth Samdani (Associate) and Rishabh Kumar (Associate);

Financing aspects: Manisha Shroff (Partner), Arijit Sarkar (Counsel), Rajshekhar Upadhyaya (Senior Associate), Siddarth Goel (Senior Associate), Mayank Chaturvedi (Associate);

Competition aspects: Anshuman Sakle (Partner), Tanveer Verma (Principal Associate) and Shravya Devaraj (Associate);

Insurance aspects: Harsh Khemka (Partner);

Structure related aspects: Sanjeev Kapoor (Partner), Shabnam Shaikh (Partner), Rahul Jain (Director), Gaurav Malhotra (Counsel), Hirak Mukhopadhyay (Counsel), Anushka Venketram (Associate) and Gaurang Mansinghka (Associate).