Indriya Limited, one of the entities of Advent International, L.P., is set to invest ≈₹2,750 crore as growth capital in Aditya Birla Housing Finance Limited.
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas is advising Aditya Birla Capital Limited and its wholly owned subsidiary Aditya Birla Housing Finance on this transaction.
The transaction team led by Anchal Dhir (Partner) and Shubham Rastogi (Partner), with assistance from Varun Kannan (Senior Associate), Aman Deep Borthakur (Senior Associate), Associates Devanshi Soni and Judy Gantzer; advised on key considerations for structuring and finalising binding documentation for the Proposed Transaction.
Shubham Rastogi (Partner), with assistance from Aman Deep Borthakur (Senior Associate), Associates Judy Gantzer, Divyam Garg, Pratham Shah, Neelanshi Gupta and Geetika Kaura, undertook vendor due diligence of the Company.
Jian Johnson (Partner), with assistance from Shobhit Dave (Senior Associate), Associates Yusuf Kathawala, Eesha Tirodkar, Kruttika Lokesh, Naomi Manoj, assisted with the regulatory aspects of the vendor due diligence.
Anna Thomas (Partner), with assistance from Kunal Sharma (Senior Associate), Associates Mehul Mayank, Tara Thakur,; assisted with the employment law related aspects of the vendor due diligence.
AZB & Partners is advising Indriya on this investment. The Firm is providing comprehensive legal advisory services in relation to the transaction, including structuring, documentation, regulatory advice, due diligence, and competition law support.
The transaction team consists of Vaidhyanadhan Iyer (Senior Partner), Devika Nayak (Partner), Sana Nagar (Senior Associate), Associates Janhavi Rajkumar and Tamanna, with additional support from Associates Gaurav Jayakumar and Shivangi Bhardwaj.
Legal due diligence was led by Shivanand Nayak (Partner), Nishanth Ravindran (Partner), and Mrinal Shankar (Partner), with assistance from Riddhi Tulshian (Senior Associate), Dharma Tej Koneru (Senior Associate), and Associates Prapti Parwani, Avani Laad, Shefali Deshmukh, Devavrat Nimbalkar, Shloka Jain, Khushi Jain, Kinjal Parikh, and Palomi Visaria (Articled Clerk).
The competition law aspects of the transaction were handled by Kirthi Srinivas (Partner), along with Associates Shivangi Pradhan, Ashna Mahajan, and Arth Doshi.
Aditya Birla Housing Finance is a fast-growing housing finance company in India. The Company is registered with the National Housing Bank (NHB) as a non-deposit accepting housing finance company and commenced operations in October 2014.
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