Capital Market
Capital Market
The Firm’s premier capital markets practice is distinguished by its role in large, complex, and high-profile transactions. Renowned for our deep understanding of regulatory expectations, we navigate the dynamic and rapidly evolving capital markets landscape with agility and innovation.
Our services include:
- Government Privatizations: We assist and advise government bodies or private entities participating in privatization transactions. They help with drafting tender documents, agreements, and regulatory approvals, ensuring compliance with applicable laws and policies.
- IPOs and Follow-on Public Offerings: Assisting companies and underwriters in preparing prospectuses, conducting due diligence, and complying with securities laws to raise capital through initial or subsequent public offerings.
- ADRs, GDRs, and IDRs: We guide clients in issuing American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs), or Indian Depositary Receipts (IDRs). They draft legal documents and ensure adherence to international and local securities laws.
- Investment-Grade and High-Yield Bond Offerings : Out team structure and draft documentation for corporate bond issuances, assist with regulatory compliance, and advise on disclosures required for investment-grade and high-yield bonds.
- Medium-Term Note Programme: Assisting in setting up MTN programmes, which allow issuers to raise capital flexibly. They ensure proper documentation, legal structuring, and compliance with applicable securities laws.
- FCCBs (Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds): We draft and negotiate terms for FCCB issuances, ensuring compliance with foreign exchange regulations and securities laws.
- QIPs (Qualified Institutional Placements): we assist companies in structuring and executing QIPs to raise funds from institutional investors, ensuring compliance with SEBI regulations.
- Rights Issues: We guide companies in raising capital through rights issues by preparing offer documents, advising on shareholder rights, and ensuring legal and regulatory compliance.
- NCDs (Non-Convertible Debentures): We structure and document NCD offerings, ensuring compliance with SEBI and RBI guidelines while assisting with listing and disclosure requirements.
- Delisting: We help companies in voluntary or mandatory delisting by advising on legal procedures, drafting public announcements, and liaising with stock exchanges and regulatory bodies.
- OFS (Offer for Sale) and Block Trades: Law firms advise on structuring OFS and block trade transactions, draft sale agreements, and ensure compliance with SEBI regulations and stock exchange requirements.
- Compliance of SEBI Rules & Regulations: Firms assist companies in adhering to SEBI regulations, handling mandatory filings, and responding to SEBI investigations or notices.
- Foreign Exchange Management: We advise on compliance with FEMA regulations, including cross-border transactions, repatriation of funds, and approvals for foreign direct investments.
- Investment & Shareholding: We assist in structuring investments, conducting due diligence on shareholding patterns, and ensuring compliance with corporate and securities laws.
- External Commercial Borrowing (ECB): Law firms guide clients on ECB structuring, drafting agreements, and ensuring compliance with RBI and FEMA guidelines for raising debt from international sources.
We advise on capital markets offerings across product types, issuers, and sectors, including both government and private sector entities. Our work encompasses a wide array of industries, ensuring a holistic understanding of varied market dynamics.
Our lawyers bring exceptional product expertise to assist debut and repeat issuers—including some of India’s largest companies—alongside sponsors, selling shareholders, underwriters, and financial institutions such as large funds and private equity investors, in achieving their capital market objectives.
