His good domain knowledge and ability to see the problems that might come up in the future doesn’t limit himself to the legal aspects, he goes beyond the legalese and comes in from a commercial point of view.
Abhishek Saxena
Co-founding Partner
New Delhi
Abhishek Saxena's practice includes corporate transactional work including joint ventures and M&A, projects, private equity, structuring and tax advisory, foreign investment and regulation, insolvency and restructuring.
Abhishek has over two decades of experience, advising on a variety of cross border deals and continues to be associated with a number of complex and prestigious projects in different sectors. He represents large and reputed Indian companies, foreign investors and multinational corporations (including Fortune 100 companies) in various sectors.
- Intuitive Surgical, Inc, a Fortune 500 company, on termination of its distributorship arrangement in India and commencing of its business activities involving distribution of robotic surgical arms / systems manufactured by Intuitive and transfer of employees and business assets from its earlier distributor.
- Quaker Chemical Corporation, on acquisition of a 45% stake in its Indian joint venture, from its exiting joint venture partner Asianol Lubricants.
- Alfanar Group, a company headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia with a turnover of US $ 2.5 billion, on a Euros 120 million acquisition of entire B2B automation business from India's Crompton Greaves Limited on a global basis.
- HNA Group, a Chinese conglomerate and a Fortune 500 Company, engaged among others, in the hospitality and aviation business, on acquisition of Carlson/Rezidor hotels.
- Dufry AG, on the acquisition of Nuance Group for a consideration of CHF 1.55 billion on a debt- and cash-free basis.
- Petronet LNG Ltd., on the renegotiation and revision of the time charter agreement as part of the renegotiation of commercials for purchase of 1.44 MTPA of LNG from Gorgon project of Mobil Australia Resources Company (LNG Supplier), an affiliate of ExxonMobil Company.
- HPCL Shapoorji Energy Private Limited, on appointment of EPC contractors for setting up storage tanks, marine facilities and regasification facilities for their proposed LNG regasification terminal at Chhara, Gujarat.
- Petronet LNG Ltd. on its acquisition of 26% stake in an LNG ship owning company in Singapore.
- Various International trustees and funds on restructuring of underlying debt issued by Indian entities and advise on and assistance under Indian insolvency law.