Trilegal advises ex-Godrej MD's FMCG start-up in $50m Goldman-Mitsui investment JSA, NDA

Wednesday, 19 February 2014 By Legally India Private equity / VC

J Sagar Asssociates (JSA), Nishith Desai Associates and Trilegal acted on Goldman Sachs’ and Mitsui Global Investment’s Rs 315 crore ($50m) investment in Global Beverages & Foods.

JSA Mumbai partners Akshay Chudasama and Mithun V Thanks, senior associate Anuj Bhasme and associate Ankit Guha acted for Goldmans.

Nishith Desai Associates lawyers Vivek Kathpalia, Karan Kalra, Sahil Shah and Nikhil Joseph were drafted in by Mitsui.

Trilegal Mumbai partner Amit Tambe acted for Global Foods, which was started after July 2013 by the former managing director of Godrej Consumer Products, A Mahendran, to build a “portfolio” of juice, confectionary and snack consumer brands, reported Mint.

J Sagar Associates (JSA)TrilegalNishith Desai Associates

Comments

Guest 20 Feb 2014, 05:35
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like the way NDA has just said lawyers as opposed to JSA and Tri :) tells u something about the culture of the firm.. distinctively different from others
Culture Vulture 20 Feb 2014, 06:07
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[quote name="Guest"]like the way NDA has just said lawyers as opposed to JSA and Tri :) tells u something about the culture of the firm.. distinctively different from others[/quote]

NDA has only one Partner. Much ado about nothing!
smokeajoint 20 Feb 2014, 06:47
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Do you think there can only be ONE partner in a firm? Which college did you go to, mate? Irrespective, it doesn't look like you learnt much there.
kianganz 20 Feb 2014, 06:51
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Just for your information, that designation wasn't supplied by NDA to us, but I wrote 'lawyers' in the copy because technically NDA doesn't have formal designations to the outside world, as far as I'm aware.
Insane 20 Feb 2014, 12:12
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[quote name="Guest"]like the way NDA has just said lawyers as opposed to JSA and Tri :) tells u something about the culture of the firm.. distinctively different from others[/quote]

This is incredibly funny! You are too naive.
VV 20 Feb 2014, 08:05
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Congrats VV and NDAteam
Guest 20 Feb 2014, 10:13
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Thanks!
NDA Structure 20 Feb 2014, 08:52
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Just for clarification - NDA is a sole-proprietorship. The lawyers are 'employees' and not 'retainers' as is the general trend.

What else do you think could be the reason for Siddharth Shah and Bijal Ajinkya moving out after 14-16 years at NDA. After a point of time you just can't keep people with money....they need equity. Without that there's no sense of ownership.
Guest 20 Feb 2014, 10:23
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Wasn't Mitsui a Long-Standing Tri Client?
Magic Square 21 Feb 2014, 06:08
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[quote name="Guest"]Wasn't Mitsui a Long-Standing Tri Client?[/quote]
Conflict of interest, clearly. They aren't Amarchand - they won't act for two different sides on a transaction.
Guest 21 Feb 2014, 09:44
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[quote name="Magic Square"][quote name="Guest"]Wasn't Mitsui a Long-Standing Tri Client?[/quote]
Conflict of interest, clearly. They aren't Amarchand - they won't act for two different sides on a transaction.[/quote]
Yeah,THEY aren't Amarchand - which is why a client will never bother with instructing them, waiving conflict etc. for them to act on more than one side of the deal.
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