Nikhil Sachdeva
Partner - Corporate
M&A | Venture Capital | Private Equity | Joint Ventures | General Corporate Advisory
Overview
Nikhil is a Partner in Corporate practice at Trilegal. He has a fairly diverse practice portfolio encompassing mergers and acquisitions, venture capital (equity and debt), private equity, joint ventures, general corporate advisory, external commercial borrowing, debt syndication and structured debt. He also specialises in structuring transactions to ensure compliance with foreign exchange regulations, corporate laws and tax efficiency based on appropriate advice from tax advisors.
Nikhil has over 15 years of experience advising a wide range of clients on general corporate matters and has acted on over 300 domestic and cross-border transactions in various sectors, including acquisitions, restructuring mandates, mergers, demergers and joint ventures.
Nikhil has extensive experience acting for clients in over 300 transactions in a wide variety of industries ranging from Healthcare, E-Commerce, Fintech, Artificial Intelligence, Aggregators, Gaming, Technology- focused businesses including SaaS, NBFC, Manufacturing, Media and Entertainment, Retail and Wholesale Trading, Renewable Energy, Publishing and Real Estate.
Nikhil deeply understands commercial and financial aspects in a transaction while ensuring that clients are effectively assisted from compliance and strategy standpoint. He has worked on several complex and innovative transactions which have since become market precedents.
Education
LLM, International Business Law, University College, London
Admissions
The Bar Council of Delhi
Select representative clients/matters
BUY OUTS
Lynks Logistics Ltd
- Sale of entire shareholding and control to Bundl Technologies Private Ltd (Swiggy)
MX Media Co. Ltd (MX Player)
- Sale of short video platform business ‘MX Takatak’ to Mohalla Tech Pvt Ltd (Sharechat & Moj)
Times Internet Ltd in relation to its stake sale in:
- Metarain Distributors Pvt Ltd (Myra) to Medlife International Private Limited (Medlife) and a further acquisition by of Medlife by API Holdings Limited (Pharmeasy);
- Gradestack Learning Pvt Ltd (Gradeup) to Think and Learn Pvt Ltd (Byju’s)
- Dineout to Bundl Technologies Pvt Ltd (Swiggy); and
- MensXP, iDiva and Hypp to Mensa Brands (Mensa)
Dreamplug Technologies Pvt Ltd (CRED)
- Acquisition of entire shareholding and control of VA Tech Ventures Pvt Ltd (Happay)
Aspiring Minds Assessment Pvt Ltd
- Sale of their stake held in Aspiring Minds to SHL (India) Pvt Ltd controlled by Exponent Private Equity Partners
PRIVATE EQUITY/VENTURE CAPITAL
MX Media Co Ltd (MX Player)
- Series A and Series B fundraise (equity and debt) from Tencent and RBI application for acquisition of a company in India on account of an externalized structure
Quicko Technosoft Labs Pvt Ltd (Whatfix)
- Series D fundraise led by Softbank and participated by Sequoia, Cisco Investments, Eight Roads Ventures, F-Prime Capital, and Dragoneer Investment Group
Inshorts Pte Ltd (InShorts)
- Fundraise from multiple investors
Nephrocare Health Services (NephroPlus)
- Series B, C, D and E fundraise from IFC, BVP, Investcorp, IIFL, Sealink
O2 Power
- Setting up of the platform by founders with a holding company in Singapore and funding by Temasek and EQT
JOINT VENTURES
Escorts Ltd
- Joint venture with Tadano Ltd to manufacture high-end cranes in India
Quintillion Media
- Joint ventures with Bloomberg LP and Da Vinci Media, respectively
Kumi Kasei Co Ltd
- Joint venture with The Supreme Industries Limited and acquisition of automotive parts manufacturing facility of The Supreme Industries Limited.
Fujitsu Frontech Ltd
- On strategic investment and joint venture in Lipi Data Systems Ltd engaged in the business of manufacturing ATM machines and components
Groupe Atlantic
- Joint venture with Hindustan Sanitaryware and Industries Ltd to manufacture water geysers in India
