Our legal work in India

India - Regional Practice - Hogan Lovells

With a worldwide team of lawyers based in key locations for doing business in India, we work across borders to help clients achieve growth, protect their businesses and meet their commercial goals.

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Given the country's dynamic and ever-changing landscape, businesses need the right kind of support in India. As an international law firm with a long track record of working in India, our strong local relationships and keen market knowledge paves the way for both Indian and foreign clients.

Whether you're an international corporation pursuing growth in India, an Indian business expanding your presence overseas, or a financier assisting a customer with an investment into or out of India, we act as your trusted advisor, and help meet your commercial goals.

Our worldwide team is based in key locations for doing business in India, including Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai, London, Munich and Washington, D.C., and has close ties to India. We work successfully across borders to help clients develop infrastructure projects, seek investment opportunities, raise capital, restructure businesses, and resolve disputes and intellectual property issues in India. Our global reach enables us to see the big picture, while our tried-and-true partnerships with Indian lawyers enable us to understand and succeed at the local level. Our lawyers are fluent in Hindi and other Indian languages.

The drive we bring to serving our clients speaks for itself – for the second year in a row, we have been ranked #1 for India Equity Offerings: Legal Adviser by deal count (Manager) by Bloomberg and #1 for Asia Equity and Equity-related by volume (Manager) by LSEG in 2024. These recognitions are one of many that our top team has won for its work in this bustling marketplace.

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Biswajit Chatterjee

Office Managing Partner

Biswajit Chatterjee

Office Managing Partner

Dubai

Meet the Our legal work in India team

Representative experience

A Japanese trading house consulted with us regarding arbitration against an Indian IT company for debts owed for telecommunications equipment.

A U.S. technology company turned to us to help commercialize its modular reactor design technology in the Indian market.

A syndicate of lenders, comprising Indian banks, international banks, and funds in relation to multiple defaults under a US$470m facility granted to a Singapore subsidiary of a large Indian conglomerate.

Advising Trafigura Pte Ltd. on its equity investment in Nagarjuna Oil Corporation Limited, an Indian refinery project.

Aeroports de Paris on all aspects of its proposed c.US$1.5bn equity investment to acquire 49% GMR Airports Limited.

Deutsche Bank on financing the acquisition of @Leisure group, a Dutch property management business by Oyo, a fast growing Indian hotel chain.

Facebook in a US$5.7bn investment for a 9.99% stake in Jio Platforms, the biggest telecom operator in India and a subsidiary of multinational conglomerate Reliance Industries.

Flipkart on its US$700m fundraising for PhonePe from existing Flipkart shareholders led by Walmart.

Flipkart on its fundraising of US$1.2bn from its shareholders, including majority shareholder Walmart, by way of a pre emptive issue of ordinary shares.

Ford on its US$275m joint venture with Mahindra Mahindra Limited to develop, market, and distribute Ford brand vehicles in India and Ford brand and Mahindra brand vehicles in high growth emerging markets.

Hogan Lovells assisted a private equity fund on a cross-border shareholder dispute and investigation in Singapore and India.

Hogan Lovells consulted with IFC and Proparco on a US$70m financing to a public Indian company in the education sector.

Hogan Lovells helped lenders on a US$220m loan to acquire business parks in India, the largest ever cross-border investment in Indian real estate.

Hogan Lovells helped the Stemcor Group with the restructuring of various Indian bank loan facilities.

Our group helped Deutsche Bank and Standard Chartered Bank with bridge loans to Air India for four Boeing B787-8 aircraft.

Our team advised Cyient on export control in the acquisition of a Singapore company, including the re-export of technologies to India.

Our team assisted IFC with its debt and equity acquisition of assets in India, Canada, U.S., and Belgium by Jubilant Pharma.

PayPal on its US$125m investment into Pine Labs, India's largest retail payment platform, alongside Temasek , the sovereign wealth fund of the Singapore government.

Synopsys Inc., a leading provider of high-quality, silicon-proven IP solutions, on a carve-out transaction for the acquisition of certain India and Vietnam based IP assets from eSilicon Corporation.

Walmart Inc. on the US$16bn acquisition of a 77% majority stake in Flipkart Private Limited, the prominent Indian e-commerce marketplace company.

We advised Sojitz on the development and construction of the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor railway linking New Delhi and Mumbai.

We advised SunEdison on its acquisition of Continuum Wind Energy, a major owner and operator of wind power assets in India.

We advised U.S. nuclear suppliers on India's civil nuclear market, and on India’s nuclear liability regime.

We advised an Italian manufacturer in arbitration regarding a joint venture dispute with an Indian company over factory operations in China.

We advised bond trustee Deutsche Bank on the Suzlon Energy FCCB restructuring, the largest Indian bond restructuring to date.

We advised trustee BNY Mellon on a Regulation S US$20m bond offering by Gujarat NRE Coke Limited on the Singapore Stock Exchange.

We consulted with Kokuyo on its US$9m acquisition of Riddhi Enterprises, a Mumbai-based notebook manufacturer.

Awards and recognitions

Ranked for India (Foreign Firms)

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific

2018 - 2020

Recognised as a leading international firm

India Business Law Journal

2020

Leading Foreign Firm in India

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific

2016

Ranked for Banking and Finance, Capital Markets, Corporate/M&A

Chambers Asia Pacific

2015

Tier 2 for Energy and Infrastructure

IFLR 1000

2015

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India Business Law Journal

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