Capital Markets

Introduction

Our Capital Markets practice advises companies, promoters, selling shareholders, investors, and other market participants on equity and debt capital markets transactions and securities regulatory matters. We assist clients throughout the transaction lifecycle, from capital markets readiness, structuring, and due diligence to documentation, corporate and regulatory approvals, issuance, listing, and continuing compliance. The practice combines securities law capabilities with the firm’s sectoral experience, particularly across the technology, media, telecommunications, and other regulated sectors. This enables us to address the corporate, regulatory, foreign investment, and commercial considerations that frequently arise in capital-raising transactions.

Our Experience

We advise on a broad range of equity and debt capital-raising transactions, including initial and follow-on public offerings, rights issues, qualified institutional placements, preferential issues, private placements, and issuances of equity-linked, convertible, and debt securities. We advise clients on compliance under the Companies Act, 2013, applicable regulations issued by the Securities and Exchange Board of India, foreign exchange laws, depository requirements, and the rules and requirements of recognized stock exchanges. We also assist listed and unlisted companies with capital reorganizations, conversion and reclassification of securities, correction and regularization of historical issuances, maintenance of securities records, and corporate governance and disclosure matters relevant to proposed capital-raising and listing transactions.

Select Mandates

Advised companies on rights issues, preferential issues, and private placements, including transaction structuring, valuation requirements, corporate approvals, offer and allotment documentation, dematerialization and post-allotment regulatory filings.

Advised companies on capital markets readiness, including reviews of their capital structures, historical securities issuances, statutory records, material agreements, governance frameworks, related-party arrangements, and regulatory compliance.

Assisted with legal and regulatory due diligence and disclosure exercises in connection with proposed securities issuances and capital-raising transactions.

Advised listed and unlisted companies on the issuance, allotment, transfer, conversion, and reclassification of securities, including compliance with corporate, securities, foreign exchange, and depository requirements.

Advised companies on capital restructuring, maintenance and reconciliation of securities records, dematerialization requirements, and the regularization of historical corporate and securities-law matters.

Advised technology, media, telecommunications, and other regulated businesses on securities law and capital-raising matters involving sector-specific regulatory and foreign investment considerations.