The Firm’s capital markets team comprises of specialised securities lawyers for equity as well as debt offerings, and our clients include corporates, banks, foreign portfolio investors, private equity funds, sovereign wealth funds, venture capitalists, investment banks, asset management companies and underwriters. We closely engage with clients on documentation and structuring required for fund raising including through:

• commercial paper
• follow-on public offers (FPOs)
• foreign currency convertible bonds (FCCBs)
• high-yield bonds
• infrastructure investment trusts (InvITs)
• initial public offerings (IPOs)
• institutional placement programmes (IPPs)
• issuance and listing of American Depositary Receipts (ADRs)
• masala bonds
• medium-term notes
• non-convertible debentures (NCDs), both publicly issued as well as privately placed
• offers for sale, including through stock exchanges, block deals, bonus issues and buybacks
• preferential allotments
• private placements
• qualified institutional placements (QIPs)
• rights issues

Our lawyers are especially known for their strategic and practical advice on securities laws and regulations related to takeovers, buy-backs, delisting, block/bulk trades, secondary share sales and purchases through public markets as well as compliance with insider trading norms. We regularly represent market intermediaries, such as merchant bankers and stockbrokers, as well as corporates before the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT). We have also represented SEBI before SAT.