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Total Partners
25

(headcounts dated 10 June 2019)

Corporate M&A Private Equity / VC Both

M&A + PE/VC table 2019-20

Deal Count	Deal Values ($m)	$1bn+ count	$200m+ count	$50m+ count	$10m+ count	<$10m count	Unknown values	Foreign deals
17	102				4	7	6	2

#	Deal	Client	Lawyers (show associates)	Other firms	Deal Value ($m)	Date	Sub category
	& D Apollo Hospitals Dhaka promoter $100 million takeover by TPG, CDC (Foreign deal: Bangladesh)	STS. (Promoter of Apollo Hospitals-Dhaka)	Aneesh Gupte, Shreya Iyer,	Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas Trilegal		Feb 2020
	& D, $5.5m investment in Greenhouse agritech Clover	Omnivore Partners India Fund 2	Siddharth Mody, Rahul Deodhar, Prerana Chaudhari, Maitri Parekh, Priyanshi Lodha, Alister Sequeira,	Saakshya Law	6	Feb 2020
	Does Omnivores $2m seed found in TechnifyBiz	Omnivore Partners India Fund 2 and Insitor Impact Asia Fund.	Siddharth Mody, Rahul Deodhar, Rahul Deodhar, Prerana Chaudhari, Maitri Parekh, Satvik Kulshrestha, Priyanshi Lodha,		2	Dec 2019
	& Omnivore $6m round in Ecozen agritech player	Omnivore India Capital Trust	Siddharth Mody, Rahul Deodhar,		6	Dec 2019
	Lay down $14m investment in roof solar financing company Electronica	Encourage Capital	Aneesh Gupte, Shireen Langrana, Abhishek Kalra, Shreya Iyer, Satvik Kulshrestha, Priyanshi Lodha,	Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas	14	Nov 2019
	JMP, $5.6m IIFL funding White Owl Brewery	White Owl Brewery	Aneesh Gupte, Ashutosh Merchant,	Jerome Merchant + Partners	6	Nov 2019
	Handles India subsidiary in fundraising New York signmaker Smartsign	Smartsign	Natasha Treasurywala, Abhay Singh,	Mayer Brown		Oct 2019
	Dindigul Thalappakatti Biryani chain $36m PE buyout	Dindigul Thalappakatti Biryani	Siddharth Mody, Rahul Deodhar, Prerana Chaudhari,	Platinum Partners Platinum Parners	36	Oct 2019
	Do $12m Series B Loantap	Avaana Capital	Siddharth Mody, Ashutosh Merchant, Maitri Parekh, Shrikant Malani, Abhay Singh, Satvik Kulshrestha, Priyanshi Lodha, Prerana Chaudhari,	Constellation Blu	12	Sep 2019
	Flex work realty Qdesq fundraise	Qdesq Realtech	Sumant Nayak, Megha Sharma, Garvita Mehrotra, Suhaas Arora,	Fortitude Law Advisors		Sep 2019
	$5m pre Series A in 3RDFlix Visual Effects	IDFC Parampara	Siddharth Mody, Rahul Deodhar,	Vertices Partners IndusLaw	5	Sep 2019
	& D $10m Atomberg Tech Series A	Atomberg Technologies promoters A91 Partners Parampara Capital	Siddharth Mody, Prerana Chaudhari, Rahul Deodhar,		10	Sep 2019
	India leg of Equistone acquisition of Moodys analytics arm (Foreign deal: UK)	Moody	Natasha Treasurywala, Rachna Jain, Devika Singh, Garvita Mehrotra,	Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Slaughter and May Indian Law Partners (ILP)		Jul 2019
	IC Series A into Ecozen perishable agritech logistics start (Jul ‘19)	Omnivore Partners	Siddharth Mody, Rahul Deodhar,	IC Universal Legal		Jul 2019
	JurisCorp $3m Bellatrix Aerospace pre Series A	IDFC Parampara	Siddharth Mody, Rahul Deodhar, Prerana Chaudhari, Maitri Parekh, Priyanshi Lodha, Satvik Kulshrestha,		3	Jun 2019
	$2.9m Green Agrevolution venture debt fundraise from Trifecta	Green Agrevolution	Siddharth Mody, Smriti Mehta, Rahul Deodhar, Prerana Chaudhari,	Samvad Partners	3	May 2019
	MakeMyTrip buy of Quest2Travel.com	Quest2Travel	Apurva S Diwanji, Natasha Treasurywala, Rumma Panchmatia, Satvik Kulshrestha,	J Sagar Associates (JSA)		Apr 2019