Deal: Trilegal represented Zee Entertainment Enterprises in its merger with Sony Pictures Networks India Private Limited

Zee Entertainment Enterprises is an Indian media conglomerate. Headquartered in Mumbai, it has interests in television, print, internet, film, mobile content and allied businesses. It operates 45 channels worldwide.

Trilegal represented Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited in its merger with Sony Pictures Networks India Private Limited.

The Trilegal team comprised Nishant Parikh and Harsh Maggon, Partners, Corporate Practice Group, Trilegal, led the deal along with Corporate Partner Ankit Kejriwal and National Head of the Competition Practice, Nisha Kaur Uberoi. Nikhil Narendran (Technology), Atul Gupta (Employment), Shruti Rajan (Financial Regulatory), Nitesh Jain (Disputes), Tine Abraham (Disputes), Kunal Gupta (Disputes) and Gautam Chawla (Competition) were other key partners involved in the Trilegal team.

Other Trilegal attorneys who were part of the deal team include Harshit Anand and Deepthi Rajeev Counsels; Sameer Raina, Prarthna Baranwal, Snigdha Guha Roy, Radhika Seth, Rachana Rautray, Kanishka Maggon, Anubhav Ghosh, Shivani Rawat, Atul Jain, Shreya Kundu, Adrish Guha Majumder, Vatsala Kumar, Senior Associates; Siddharth Gupta, Senior Consultant; Carina Singh, Kshitij Sharma, Akshita Pandey, Swarnima Mukherjee, Nehal Binani, Rutvij Naik, Shreya Shenolikar, Priya Venkatesan, Wamika Jha, Apoorva Singh, Yash Modi, Ashim Gupta, Rutvi Pandya, Samriddha Gooptu, Madhav Kapoor, Nikita Rathi, Puja Saha, Anjana Ravi, Akanksha Singh, Cheta Sheth, Dayaar Singla, Tania Gupta, Archana Iyer, Nishi Bhankharia, Ritika Ajitsaria, Varun Mansinghka, Ajit Brar, Angelika Awasthi, Kuruvila Jacob, Brihad Ralhan, Labeeb Faaeq, Vivek Shah, Vidhi Shah, Associates.

Other parties involved in the transaction were Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas for Sony Pictures Networks India Private Limited and Bangla Entertainment Private Limited.