Herbert Smith's India practice brings an accumulation of experience from years of acting on significant India related matters, both advising India's leading businesses on their global expansion and assisting our international clients on building up their operational presence in India.
Chaired by Chris Parsons and headed by Nimi Patel our India group comprises over 45 dedicated partners representing all the main practice areas.
Our recent India experience includes advising:
- Tata Motors on its acquisition of Land Rover and Jaguar from Ford Motors, a deal valued at approximately US$2.3 billion
- Essar on its US$13 billion bid for Hutchison Whampoa's interest in Hutchison Essar and its subsequent joint venture arrangements with Vodafone
- Tata Steel, the listed Indian steel manufacturer, on the £6.2 billion takeover bid for Corus, the Anglo-Dutch steelmaker
- ICICI Bank on the US$500 million ECB financing the modernisation of the Delhi International Airport
- Tata Chemicals on its US$825 million financing for the acquisition of General Chemicals Industrial Products (US) and also its rest of the world merger control requirements
- Tata Real Estate and Infrastructure on the establishment of Tata Realty Initiatives Fund 1, a real estate and infrastructure fund investing in Indian real estate and infrastructure assets
- RBS and International Finance Corporation (IFC) on a US$1 billion financing for Cairn Energy to finance its upstream operations in India
- Tata Communications on its acquisition of Teleglobe International Holdings Ltd, an international telecommunications provider listed on Nasdaq, for approximately US$239 million and also on its acquisition of Tyco's Global Network, one of the world's most extensive submarine cable systems, for US$130 million
- a group of 10 Indian steel producers on the injury aspects of a European Commission anti-subsidies investigation
- international developers such as Tractebel, NRG, Midamerican, Sumitomo and Marubeni
- The Union of India and state and federal governments
- Government owned companies such as ONGC Videsh and Power Trading Corporation of India (PTC)
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