Manita Doshi
Manita Doshi is a Partner in the General Corporate practice at the Ahmedabad office of the Firm.
She has over 15 years’ experience in corporate commercial and general corporate transactions and advisory, including domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic M&A, private equity and venture capital.
She has significant expertise in foreign and overseas investments in India, structuring investments and acquisition deals and fund raising. Her experience in structuring transactions includes advising various clients on investment structures (both entry-level and exit strategies), fundraising and business structuring. Manita has also advised renowned groups (like Reliance Group, Colgate Palmolive, GE etc.) on various M&A (including global transactions), strategic investments and joint venture transactions.
Manita also advises on domestic and cross-border mergers; and also routinely advises on regulatory & corporate governance matters in portfolio companies. Manita has worked across various sectors, including fintech, retail, manufacturing, logistics, TMT, pharmaceuticals, media and infrastructure.
She has also advised on various capital markets matters, including IPOs, QIPs, OFSs, FCCB issuance and restructuring, buy-backs, and IDR buy-back and delisting. She advises Indian listed companies on corporate governance issues, ESG, compliance with listing requirements and other corporate matters.
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- Razorpay Group on its cross border merger linked structuring and scheme, the first fast track cross border merger schemes in India.
- Access Healthcare Group on the growth investment by New Mountain Group, and the rollover structure.
- Adani Group on its joint venture with Total Group.
- Reliance Retail Ventures Limited on acquisition of a controlling stake and buy-out of majority shares of Purple Panda (Clovia) from the Founders and existing investors.
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- Razorpay Group on its majority acquisition of Poptech.
- Norwest Venture Partners, a 17 billion private equity fund, on its investments (including follow-on investments) in various companies across diverse sectors, including APAC Financial Services, Finova Capital, IKF Finance, Power Exchange India Limited, Early Salary, SK Finance, Veritas Finance, Vastu Housing, Ummeed Housing, Pascal, Mintifi, SILA Solutions, Busybees Logistics and Duroflex.
- Norwest Venture Partners on its pre-IPO sales in Swiggy and SK Finance, and as special counsel in listing of its portfolio companies (including Five Star and Swiggy).
- Helena Group (US) on its maiden investment and follow-on investments in India in Matter Motorworks.
- Prolec GE from its exit from Indo Tech Transformers Limited (an Indian listed company).
- Tinicum Group on acquisition of the shares of the entities forming part of the PMI group, including 100% acquisition of the shares of PMI Engineering Exports Private Limited and PMI Global Technologies Private Limited.
- Imerys Group (France) on its sale of from various companies in the high temperature solutions segment (including Calderys India Refractories Limited and Imerys Steelcasting India Limited), to Platinum Equity Group.
- Colgate Palmolive on its investments in Bombay Shaving Company.
- Sony Group and Norican Group on their internal restructurings involving India entities.
- Promoters of MMS Group (including MMSH Clinical Research (India)) on sale of stake to Lindsay Goldberg group.
- Investcorp Private Equity Fund I and Bessemer India Capital Holdings II Ltd in relation to the sale of a part of their shareholding in Medi Assist Healthcare Services Limited, prior to listing.
- Citi Ventures on its investment in Lentra AI Private Limited.
- DCM Shriram Industries group with respect to merger of its investment companies into another investment company, pursuant to a scheme of arrangement, and demerger of a listed company into three listed entities.
- International Finance Corporation on sale of its stake in Lithium Urban Technologies.
- One97 Communications Limited (Paytm) on the buy-back of its shares from open market.
- International Finance Corporation and SACEF Holdings II on sale of stake in Kalki Communication Technologies Private Limited.
- Bluecloud Services Private Limited and Bluecloud Services, Inc on the Indian restructuring and related aspects w.r.t. sale of controlling stake to Hudson Hill Capital Management.
- Resilient Innovations Private Limited (BharatPe) and Mastercard India Services Private Limited (Mastercard), on acquisition by Mastercard of global sponsorship rights to ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023, through an assignment from Bharatpe.
- Paul Merchants Finance Limited on the sale of its gold loan business to L&T Finance Limited.
- 100% sale by the promoters of the Geo-Chem group of companies in India, Bangladesh and Dubai (consumer products division) in favour of the Cotecna Group.
- Far and Wide Production and Distribution Private Limited on acquisition of all the securities held by Ambit Pragma Fund II (Seller) in Prime Focus Technologies Limited.
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Professional Memberships
- Bar Council of Gujarat
Education
- B. Com. LL.B. (Hons), Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar