Saraf and Partners assists Anant Raj on demerger of data center business into standalone listed entity

Anant Raj Limited (ARL) has announced a landmark composite corporate restructuring involving the merger of Anant Raj Cloud Private Limited into ARL, followed by the demerger of its data centre and cloud business to Ashok Cloud Private Limited (ACPL) and the proposed listing of ACPL as a dedicated digital infrastructure platform.

Saraf and Partners acted as the legal counsel to Anant Raj Limited.

The transaction team was led by Vaibhav Kakkar (Senior Partner) and Debarpan Ghosh (Partner), with support from Anuj Garg (Senior Associate), Associates Ishaan Gupta and Nikhil Surana.

The competition team led by Akshayy S Nanda (Partner), with Rohan Malhotra (Associate) and Rahul Dhingra (Associate), also advised on certain aspects of the transaction.

Atul V. Sood, Advocate shall be acting as lead counsel before the NCLT.

Anant Raj Limited is a diversified portfolio spanning residential townships, commercial developments, hospitality projects, and cutting-edge data centre facilities.

Anant Raj Cloud Private Limited, is inter alia engaged in the business of providing data centre and co-location services, sovereign public cloud services and AI ready cloud infrastructure, DC & DR (disaster recovery) services, including cloud migration, data backup solutions and other allied activities.

The restructuring is designed to unlock shareholder value by creating two focused listed platforms, one in real estate and infrastructure, and the other in digital infrastructure and cloud services.

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