Shruti Kinra
Shruti Kinra is a Partner with the General Corporate practice at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co. She is based out of its Delhi office.
Shruti has extensive experience in matters pertaining to mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, foreign investment into India, India market-entry strategy, corporate restructuring and general corporate advisory. Shruti has a strong background in legal services and has dealt with several high profile cases. She has advised on a wide array of transactions including some of the most prominent deals closed in India. Some of her notable transactions include advising GE Capital on its exit from India (featured in the 50 landmark deals of 2016 by India Business Law Journal), PVR on its acquisition of Cineplex cinemas, which was one of the fastest M&A transactions closed in India, and acquisition of Areva T&D India by Alstom and Schneider and consequent separation of the businesses, a transaction which involved multiple open offers to public shareholders and business restructurings.
Shruti has worked on a number of Court approved reorganisation matters. These include companies such as JK Group, Cargill India Private Limited, Triveni Engineering & Industries Limited, Maruti Suzuki Automobiles Limited and Steel Authority of India. Shruti’s clients in the field of mergers and acquisitions include several leading multinational corporates who she has advised extensively with respect to their corporate matters, investments, strategic operations, joint ventures and restructuring exercises.
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Shruti has been instrumental in setting up the Korea desk of the firm. As part of the firm’s Korea desk, Shruti plays a leading role in advising leading Korean companies with their Indian operations.
She has previously worked with Herbert Smith Freehills, London (then Herbert Smith LLP) as a corporate lawyer, advising on several complex M&A transactions.
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- GE Capital on its exit from India.
- Veeba Food Services Private Limited in relation to raising funding from Saama Capital and DSG Consumer Partners.
- General Electric Company in relation to the sale of 100% shareholding and controlling interest of General Electric Company and its affiliates in GE Capital Services India and GE Money Financial Services Private Limited to Plutus Financials Private Limited.
- ONGC Tripura Power Company Limited in relation to its right issue of shares to its existing shareholders.
- Alstom SA and Schneider Electric in relation to its indirect acquisition of Areva India and their joint open offer to the public shareholders of Areva T&D India Limited.
- FedEx Corporation in relation to its acquisition of AFL Private Limited and Unifreight Limited.
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- Crompton Greaves Limited in relation to its acquisition of the Pauwels group.
- Eicher Motors Limited in relation to the acquisition of Design Intent Engineering Inc., a US company.
- Hindustan Times Limited in relation to hiving-off of its media business to its wholly owned subsidiary, HT Media Limited and raising equity investment in HT Media Limited.
- Avenue Capital in relation to its investment in Medicity project involving medical health care services.
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Professional Memberships
- Bar Council of Delhi
Education
- B.A. LL.B, (Hons), University of Warwick
