Rohan Jain is a Partner with Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co. and is part of the General Corporate practice of the firm.
His primary areas of practice are General corporate advisory and mergers and acquisitions (both cross-border and domestic transactions), joint ventures, private equity investments.
Rohan regularly advises various Indian and foreign corporates, PSUs, HNIs startups, and non-profit entities on a various general corporate legal, regulatory and corporate governance issues including business structuring, direct investments, company law advisory (such as company formation and closure, shareholders dispute, oppression and mismanagement), and various other allied corporate and commercial law and secretarial matters. He has also liaised with prominent regulatory bodies such as the Reserve Bank of India, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, and Department of Telecom, Government of India. Rohan also advising the lenders and resolution professionals under corporate insolvency process under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 with respect to day to day corporate strategy and implementation related aspects.
Rohan has been advising on many high value and innovative deals which includes advising com International Limited (China’s largest online travel agency), from an Indian law perspective, in relation to acquisition of shares of MakeMyTrip by Ctrip.com from Naspers for USD 1.46 billion (amongst the annual list of landmark India-related deals of 2019 by the India Business Law Journal).
He has worked with government organizations and ministries on various policy issues including the Companies Act and other regulatory/legal enactments. He recent engagement includes working with the Company Law Committee constituted to review decriminalization of offences under the Companies Act, 2013 headed by Injeti Srinivas, Secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India.
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Corporate Compliance
- Advised NLMK Group (Russia) in setting up and maintaining their various subsidiaries in India wherein advise on day-to-day corporate law related aspects.
- Advised Joy Global Group on assisting their Indian subsidiary on the secretarial aspects including the board procedures, minutes, regulatory filings etc.
- Advised Par Pharmaceuticals Inc. on various general corporate matters pertaining to day-to-day compliance related issues under the Companies Act, setting up of a trust, execution of services and consultancy agreements, issues pertaining to foreign exchange laws etc.
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- Advised DLF Limited and its subsidiaries on various general corporate matters including issues related to Companies Act, laws relating to listed companies etc.
- Advised J.K. Paper Ltd. on various general corporate matters and secretarial compliances.
- Advised ITC Limited on various corporate law related issues including preparing a representation before the Ministry of Corporate Affairs which resulted in amendment to the Companies Act.
- Advised Takii Limited (a Japanese company) in maintaining their Indian subsidiary and advised on clearing all the past non-compliances of the Indian subsidiary including by undertaking compounding of such subsidiary.
- Advised promoters of UP Hotels Limited on various general corporate matters and with respect to their rights under the joint venture.
- Advised SBI General Insurance Company Limited on issues pertaining to Corporate Social Responsibility.
- Advised notable professionals and independent directors in dealing with regulatory authorities in respect to their duties and responsibilities.
- Advised various clients (like, Reall Limited, Zuari Group, Sber Bank, ONGC Limited) on various general corporate advisory matters.
- Advised PWC on various corporate related queries in relation to Indian accounting standards and related party transactions.
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M&A
- Advised ITC Infotech India Limited in 100% acquisition of Blazeclan Technologies Private Limited.
- Advised GVR Infra Projects Limited in sale of 50% stake in GVR Ashoka Chennai ORR Limited to Ashoka Buildcon Limited.
- Advised EDME (part of Samara Capital) in 100% acquisition of Aditya Birla Insurance Brokers Limited.
- Advised Netcore Cloud Private Limited in 100% acquisition of UNBXD Software Private Limited.
- Advised Sabyasachi Mukherjee in sale of 51% stake of Sabyasachi Couture to Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Limited.
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- Advised South Asia Growth Fund II Holdings LLC in their investment in SS Supply Chain Solutions Private Limited.
- Advised Blackstone in relation to a proposed acquisition of real estate assets.
- Advised Brookfield in relation to acquisition of assets of Unitech Group.
- Advised Anand Group in their joint venture with Headspring Japan for developing design capabilities in power electronics.
- Advised Reall Ltd. UK in relation to (i) their investment in Syntellect India Private Limited; and (ii) debt funding in affordable housing projects in India.
- Advised Mountania (Oyo and Soft Bank Group Joint Venture) in relation to acquisition of 4 star and 5 star hotels pan India.
- Advised Future Group in relation to the acquisition of fabfurnish.com
- Advised K. Papers Ltd. in acquisition of Sirpur Paper Mills.
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Professional Memberships
Education
- B. Com., LL.B. (Hons), Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar
- Company Secretary, The Institute of Company Secretaries of India, New Delhi