Amarchand & Mangaldas topped the Venture Intelligence
League Tables for Most Active Legal Advisor for M&A transactions for 2012
with 114 points (across 30 qualifying deals) followed by Khaitan & Co. with 108 points
(across 28 deals) while AZB & Partners came in next with 92 points
(27 deals).
The Venture Intelligence League Tables, the first such
initiative exclusively tracking transactions involving India-based companies,
are based on volume of PE and M&A transactions (combined with credits based
on fulfilment of criteria) advised by Transaction and Legal Advisory firms.
Amarchand & Mangaldas advised M&A deals during the
year included the $2 Billion acquisition
of United Breweries by Diageo and Legrand's
acquisition of UPS business of Numeric Power Systems. Khaitan & Co.
advised deals included Tech Mahindra’s
$87 million acquisition of Hutchison Global Services and the acquisition of
L&T’s Plastic Machinery business by
Toshiba. Other legal advisors who had advised a significant number of M&A
deals during the year included J Sagar
Associates (24 deals) and ALMT Legal
(17 deals).
Amarchand & Mangaldas also topped the table in terms of
value of the deals advised, followed by AZB & Partners (whose notable deals
during the year include $350 million
acquisition of Lodestone Holdings by Infosys and BPO giant Genpact’s acquisition of Atyati Technologies. Khaitan
& Co. came in next in terms of deals advised by value.
Amarchand & Mangaldas advised seven outbound deals,
followed by Khaitan & Co. with six deals and J Sagar Associates with five
deals. Khaitan & Co topped the inbound deals chart with 13 deals with AZB and
Amarchand sharing the second spot (11 deals each). AZB & Partners led the
domestic M&A deals advised with 13 deals while Amarchand & Mangaldas
and Khaitan & Co. advised twelve and eleven domestic M&A deals
respectively.
New Entrants to the Venture Intelligence M&A table for
Legal Advisors during 2012 include Vichar
Partners, Novojuris, S Eshwars Consultants and Kochhar & Co.
The full league table can be viewed online at http://ventureintelligence.in/leaguelaw-ma.htm
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