“Samara buys majority in skin-care brand Nature’s Essence: Established in 1998, NEPL is among the leaders in the skin-whitening market, competing with companies such as Dabur, VLCC and Patanjali,” reported The Economic Times, about the deal by way of subscription and transfer of equity shares of NEPL held by the promoters in 3 tranches for a consideration of Rs 200 crores ($29m) for the first tranche.

Khaitan & Co advised Samara Capital Management Limited led by a team of partner Mayank Singh, principal associate Nidhi Killawala, associate Bhavna Pattanaik and associate Kairavi Shah.

Update 8 April 2019: J Sagar Associates (JSA) advised Nature’s Essence Private Limited, Nature’s Organics and Magikle Pharma Private Limited led by a team including partner Sidharrth Shankar, principal associate Prakriti Jaiswal; and associates Hema Priyadarshini Patnaik, Shweta Gupta, Sampurna Nayak and Aman Bhatia.

2019-03-14

Deal value: $29m

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