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King, Stubb & Kasiva
Unit 14, Ground Floor, DLF Tower A, Jasola, New Delhi – 110025
India

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City focus: Chennai > Leading firms Tier 2

In the Chennai office of King, Stubb & Kasiva, Prithiviraj Senthil Nathan drives the M&A and commercial work, both advisory and contentious. The team assists global and domestic clients in industries ranging from tech and pharma to manufacturing and automobiles. Aravindh Asokan and Rohan Chinnappa are other team members who assist with acquisitions and various investment mandates including those for private equity and venture capital clients.

Leading Individuals

Prithiviraj Senthil Nathan – King, Stubb & Kasiva

Practice head(s):

Prithiviraj Senthil Nathan

Other key lawyers:

Aravindh Asokan; Rohan Chinnappa

Key clients

Santosh Kumar (AVP, Canbank Ventures)

Devarjun Das (AVP – Legal, iBus Network & Infrastructure Pvt Ltd)

Sandeep U (VP – Accounts & Finance, 315 Work Avenue)

Erick Sawyer (Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer, inhabit IQ)

Jonathan Young (Assistant General Counsel, Agilysys Inc)

Srinivas Sista (CEO, Digitised Energy)

Christine Williams (General Counsel, APAC, Tronox Holdings)

Ellen Dale (General Counsel, PIM Brands, Inc)

Rashmi Ramachandran (Financial Controller, Crestron Electronics)

John E. Welch (Chief Legal Officer & Executive Vice President, Digital Management Inc Companies)

Heather Stevenson (Senior Director, Finance & Corporate Services, Galvmed Global Alliance for Livestock Veterinary Medicines)

Yurii Dzera (Senior Associate, Ciklum Operations UK)

Vijayshyam Acharya (Global Head – Quest Global)

Anubhav Kapoor (Legal Head – Ford Motors)

Motty John (General Counsel – PNB Metlife)

Work highlights

Assisted SSW Partners, a New York based investment partnership (“SSW”) in selling Veoneer’s Active Safety Business automotive technology to Magna International Inc., a mobility technology company and one of the largest suppliers in the auto industry.
Advised Baird Capital’s Global Private Equity Fund on their investment in JMAN Group (JMAN), an international commercially focused data consultancy. Baird Capital manages two investment platforms: Global Private Equity and U.S. Venture Capital and makes investments in B2B technology & services-focused companies around the world.

City focus: Bengaluru > Leading firms Tier 3

India > Banking and finance Tier 4

King, Stubb & Kasiva’s banking and finance practice primarily focuses on advising lenders on a wide range of lending and structured finance transactions. Practice head Siddartha Karnani has extensive experience in handling a broad range of domestic and cross-border real estate acquisition and financing work. Another key point of contact is senior associate Darshit Shah, who regularly advises private and public banks and NBFCs on the full plethora of secured and unsecured financing transactions.

Practice head(s):

Siddartha Karnani

Other key lawyers:

Darshit Shah

India > Corporate and M&A

Firms to watch

With offices across New Delhi, Pune, Chennai, and Bengaluru, the King, Stubb & Kasiva team specialises in handling all aspects of M&A, private equity, and venture capital matters on behalf of domestic and international clients.

King Stubb & Kasiva is few of the top corporate law firms in India with offices in Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai, and Pune. It has established teams in every practice area to ensure our services meet the most exact standards. The key practices include corporate M&A, private equity and venture capital, banking and finance, real estate, dispute resolution (arbitration and litigation), insolvency, regulatory, and labour and employment matters. The firm also has dedicated practices surrounding capital markets, competition, antitrust, environmental, food, information technology, infrastructure and project finance, IPR, investment, legal metrology, litigation, media law, and tax.

Its industry focus encompasses blockchain and cryptos, e-commerce, defense, fintech, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, power and energy, telecom, media and telecommunications, transport and logistics, trusts, charities and not-for-profit, and white-collar crime. Over the last several years, King Stubb & Kasiva (KSK) has developed a niche in mid-market M&A, litigation and disputes resolution, employment and labor, banking and finance, IT, e-commerce, and emerging technology practices. The firm’s clients include large and medium Indian and foreign businesses, multinational corporations, and Fortune 500 companies. The firm advises ministries, government authorities, and public sector undertakings.

With the meteoric growth experienced by start-ups we see today, it is imperative for them to be cognizant of the various regulatory compliances to be undertaken to ensure they are ship-shape for their future funding rounds. KSK’s comprehensive and focused solutions help start-ups in achieving it. KSK provides legal structural, regulatory, and compliance-related services guiding startups through all stages of their growth, assistance in incorporation, structuring, funding, and registration of Intellectual Property amongst many others.

KSK also assists and advises start-ups in different industry sectors including e-commerce, fin-tech, genomics, defense, drugs and cosmetics, ed-tech, med tech, news and media aggregation, logistics, blockchain, airports, mining, green energy, power and energy, real estate, engineering and manufacturing, pharmacy wholesale and retail distribution, F&B, fashion and clothing, fitness.

Department	Name	Email	Telephone
Managing Partner	Jidesh Kumar	jidesh@ksandk.com	+91 9972225878
Senior Partner	Rajesh Sivaswamy	rajesh@ksandk.com	+91 9810088448

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American Chamber of Commerce
Indo-German Chamber of Commerce
IBA (International Bar Association)
UKIBC
Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA)
Swiss-Indo Chamber of Commerce
Indo-Italian Chamber of Commerce & Industry
Indo-China Chamber of Commerce

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