Restructuring

Our Restructuring practice advises on business transfers, asset transfers, demergers and internal reorganisation of conglomerates. We service a diverse range of stakeholders, including corporates, lenders, and investors, in navigating restructuring scenarios with clarity, strategic foresight, and legal precision.  Our practice adopts a pragmatic, solution-oriented approach to complex financial and operational challenges.  

Business Transfers
Advising on various legal issues arising in such transfers, including how to identify and
address each issue.

Assisting clients assess the pros and cons of this mode of transfer against other restructuring
options.

Delivering nuanced legal advice on each section that constitutes part of the business transfer
including contracts, intellectual property, labour, licences and real estate.

Advising on costs including stamp duty, transfer fees and licence fees across States.

Drafting, reviewing and negotiating transaction documents including business transfer and
asset transfer agreements, novation agreements and assignment of intellectual property and
sale of real estate.

Advising on structuring payouts to parent companies upon completion of the slump sale
exercise.
Asset Transfers
Helping clients strategise in identifying specific assets and structuring a time and cost-effective transfer.

Assisting clients in each phase of an asset transfer transaction from finalising the term sheet, negotiating and executing the asset transfer agreement to assisting with execution of each legal arrangement that corresponds to transfer of each identified asset.

Advising on costs including stamp duty, transfer fees and license fees across States.
Demergers
Advising clients on the processes, costs and time involved in such forms of restructuring across States.

Advising clients on the pros and cons of a court-approved demerger over other contractual forms of restructuring.

Providing our Litigation practice support in procuring Court approval and completing all the registration formalities.
Internal Reorganisation
Helping conglomerates with businesses across varied sectors, strategise and assess the structure that will unlock stakeholder value optimally.

Assisting them weigh each structure so that the conglomerate benefits from a cost, time, efficiency and a Board and stakeholder perspective.

Drafting, reviewing and negotiating transaction documents and achieving full closure based on the form of corporate restructuring opted.
Other Corporate Restructuring
Advising on the approvals, time and processes involved in other forms of corporate restructuring including reduction of capital and reclassification of capital.

Providing nuanced counsel on the time, cost, processes and practical challenges involved in each form of corporate restructuring.

Our Sector Expertise

We counsel clients from diverse industries and across varied sectors including financial services, technology, energy and infrastructure, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, e-commerce, education, retail, franchise, hospitality, manufacturing, cement, media, telecom and insurance.

Key Matters

Divyasree Group and NSL Group
Acted as transaction counsel to Divyasree Group and NSL Group in relation to the demerger of Orion SEZ.
Cyient Limited
Represented Cyient Limited in the acquisition of the semiconductor division of a group company, including structuring and documentation.
Clininvent  Research Private Limited
Represented Clininvent Research Private Limited (a TCG Group company) in the acquisition of assets of a Hyderabad based company.
Apollo Health and Lifestyle Limited
Advised and assisted Apollo Health and Lifestyle Limited (AHLL) in (a) the business transfer of a Fertility Clinic at Hyderabad on a slump sale basis, and (b) the acquisition and consolidation of pathology and diagnostic centers in Lucknow.
Keimed
Restructuring involving merger of about 20 various pharma/drug companies into the client
Care Hospital
Assisted in acquisition of a hospital through business transfer route.
RMZ Group
Legal services in relation to demerger of a commercial project at Hyderabad undertaken by the client, including advising on the cost implications and finalising the scheme of arrangement.
GMR Hyderabad
International Airport
Provided legal services in relation to a restructuring involving its air cargo and logistics unit, aerospace engineering unit and MRO unit through a scheme of arrangement approved by the NCLT (Hyderabad)
Heritage Foods
Provided legal services in relation to demerger of its division through a scheme of arrangement approved by NCLT (Hyderabad)
Share Medical Care (Mediciti)
Advice and assistance for conversion of a not-for-profit society into a Section 8 Company
GVK
Provided legal services in relation to merger of group entities through a scheme of amalgamation before
NCLT (Hyderabad)
Insud Pharma
Advised Insud Pharma (erstwhile Chemo Group, Spain) in its acquisition of several pharma companies and businesses across India
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