Taranjeet Singh
Taranjeet Singh is a Partner in the Corporate, M&A and Private Equity (PE) practice group of the Firm. He advises numerous corporates, sovereign wealth funds and private equity funds across the full range of their operations and activities.
He has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, onshore & offshore structuring, joint ventures and has advised private equity funds, sovereign wealth funds (SWF), large Indian and international corporate groups, multilateral agencies and strategic corporate clients on a variety of domestic and cross-border transactions. He has also represented clients in a large number of complex public M&A acquisitions in listed Indian companies.
He actively represents large corporate clients such as the One97 Communications Limited, Vodafone, Urbaser and blue chip PE and SWF clients such as Blackstone, KKR, General Atlantic, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Temasek, TPG and Invus Group. He has advised a leader in the semiconductor (memory) industry from a back-end manufacturing perspective in setting up its assembly, testing, marking and packaging (ATMP) facility in India.
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Some of his notable transactions include advising Blackstone in relation to the 100% buy-out of the two sea-plane operating companies in the Republic of Maldives, which was nominated as “Private Equity Deal of the Year” by IFLR Asia Awards 2014, and KKR on its acquisition of controlling majority in JB Chemicals for US$ 600 million, which deal was awarded as Private Equity Deal of the Year by Private Equity International Annual Review, 2020.
He has successfully completed a nine-month client secondment program with Blackstone Group in their Asia Pacific legal & compliance team with direct reporting to the Group General Counsel, India.
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- Advised a leader in the semiconductor (memory) industry from a back-end manufacturing perspective in setting up its assembly, testing, marking and packaging (ATMP) facility in India.
- Blackstone on the following transactions:
- acquisition of majority stake in Mphasis Limited from HPE for US$ 1.1 billion.
- acquisition of Agile Electric Sub Assembly from HBM Capital Partners for US$ 53 million.
- sale of Agile Electric Sub Assembly to Igarashi Motors for US$ 103 million.
- investment in SH Kelkar Limited, a fragrances and flavours company, and in providing an exit to the existing private equity investor.
- acquisition of Comstar Automotive Technologies for US$ 125.6 million.
- acquisition of Trans Maldivian Airways for US$ 250 million, deal was nominated for “Asia PE Deal of the Year” in the private equity category at the IFLR Asia Awards 2014.
- exit from Trans Maldivian Airways for US$ 500 million.
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- KKR on its acquisition of JB Chemicals for US$ 600 million, which deal was awarded as “Private Equity Deal of the Year” by Private Equity International Annual Review 2020.
- Temasek on:
- US$ 250 million investment in UST Holdings Limited, a Bermuda entity, which is engaged in providing IT and ITES services.
- US$ 250 million investment in Zomato.
- multiple investments in OLA Electric.
- US$ 200 million investment in MXC Solutions, owners and operators of platform CarTrade.com.
- investment in Lenskart, an India-based company that owns and operates an online shopping portal for eyewear.
- General Atlantic on:
- acquisition of significant minority stake in ASG Hospital Private Limited, one of the largest private equity investments in the eye care sector in India.
- acquisition of a 40.61% stake in Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences Limited for US$ 132 million.
- partial exit from Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences Limited.
- Canada Pension Plan Investment Board on:
- acquisition of SBE Energy for US$ 650 million.
- acquisition (as part of a consortium) of animal healthcare undertaking business from Cadila Zydus, thus forming second largest and one of the fastest growing animal health businesses in India.
- US$ 425 million investment in VerSe Innovation Private Limited, one of India’s leading content technology platform companies.
- The Invus Group in relation to sale of shares of Capital Foods Private Limited to General Atlantic for US$ 52 million.
- Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board on the acquisition of 10.34% of Bharti Infratel Limited, aggregating to approximately US$ 900 million.
- Advised Verizon Media in its acquisition by Apollo Global Management.
- Represented One97 Communications Limited in relation to a multi-staged investment in it by Alipay Singapore E-Commerce Private Limited.
- Represented IDFC Limited in relation to the restructuring of its business and demerger of its financing business to IDFC Bank Limited.
- Advised Urbaser, Vodafone India Limited, Blackstone Group (HK) Limited, TPG and General Atlantic in relation to various corporate law compliance matters.
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Professional Memberships
- Member of the Bar Council of Delhi
Education
- B.A. LL.B. (Hons.), Gujarat National Law University
