Anuj Bhasme is a Partner of the Firm’s General Corporate, Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group.
Anuj has over a decade of expertise in cross border M&A and private equity across a range of sectors, particularly, real estate, health care, services, FMCG, manufacturing and retail. Anuj also has substantial experience in regulatory and corporate advisory related aspects, and has made several representations to various Indian regulatory bodies, including the Foreign Investment Promotion Board, Reserve Bank of India, Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
As part of his private equity practice, Anuj has represented large and reputable global private equity houses such as Goldman Sachs, Blackstone and LeapFrog on some of their marquee investments. As part of his General Corporate and strategic M&A practice, Anuj regularly advises several large multi-national corporations such as Church & Dwight Co. Inc., Lululemon, Texas Instruments Inc., Sanitarium, Air France, DEME nv, Newell Brands, CPM Holdings Inc., Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd and Raymond Limited, in relation to various strategic joint ventures and corporate advisory work.
Anuj has also been mentioned as a ‘key lawyer’ in the Firm’s real estate and construction practice in 2021 by The Legal 500 – Asia Pacific – India edition. Clients have described Anuj as “a true expert who can break down key issues in a way that is understandable”; Clients have also had the following to say about Anuj: “he has a pragmatic approach in resolving issues and he thinks outside of the box”; and “he delivers high quality advice; he has the ability to provide crisp and clear advice”.
Prior to joining the Firm, Anuj worked at the Mumbai office of J. Sagar Associates, Advocates and Solicitors.
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- Advised LeapFrog Investments Group, Ltd., on their investments in Healthifyme Pte. Ltd. and MedGenome Inc.;
- Advised NCR Corporation in its acquisition of the Indian subsidiary of Terafina, Inc., a leading solution provider for customer account opening and onboarding across digital, branch and call center channels;
- Advised Blackstone in its 100% acquisition of certain portfolio companies of Indiabulls Real Estate Limited which housed marquee commercial real estate assets in Mumbai and Gurgaon, for an aggregate consideration of INR 2717 crores, in one of the largest private equity investment in the real estate space in India in 2019.
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- Advised Raymond Limited in: (i) preferential allotment of equity shares and compulsorily convertible preference shares, for an aggregate consideration of INR 350 crores to its promoter group company; and (ii) demerger of the lifestyle business of Raymond Limited into a newly incorporated company and merger of the subsidiaries of Raymond Limited, into Raymond Limited, by way of a scheme of arrangement to be filed with the National Company Law Tribunal.
- Advised the founders of the AGS Health Group in its sale of the AGS Health Group, to Baring PE, for an aggregate consideration of USD 350 million.
- Advised the promoters of VRV Group in its sale of the Indian subsidiary of the VRV Group, to the Chart Group, as part of a global transaction, for an aggregate consideration of approximately EUR 125 million.
- Advised Blackstone in its 50% investment in two portfolio companies (holding commercial real estate assets in Mumbai) of Indiabulls Real Estate Limited, having an aggregate enterprise value of USD 1.46 billion, in the largest private equity investment in the real estate space in India in 2018.
- Advised Blackstone in its 50% investment in portfolio companies of Indiabulls Real Estate Limited (which hold a developed tech park and an under-development IT/ITes project, in Gurugram).
- Advised Goldman Sachs in its majority acquisition of YOHO, the student housing arm of the Manipal Group, and the subsequent acquisition of the stake of the Manipal Group, in YOHO, by HDFC.
- Advised JKIT (a group company of Raymond Limited) in its acquisition of the stake of Ansell in JK Ansell (involved in the FMCG business).
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Professional Memberships
- Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa
Education
- LL.B, Government Law College, Mumbai, India
- LL.M, New York University School of Law, New York, N.Y.