Rahil Pereira
Partner - Corporate
Overview
Rahil Pereira is a Partner at Trilegal. He focuses on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity investments, and general corporate advisory matters.
Rahil has advised clients on minority stake purchases, control deals, and buyouts, fund investments and investment exits. A number of these transactions have been in the technology, education, retail, manufacturing and financial services space. He has also advised clients on resolution plans submitted under the provisions of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code.
Education
- Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur
Admissions
- Bar Council of Maharashtra
Select representative clients/matters
- Blackstone on (i) purchase of a minority stake in Aakash Education Services and subsequent sale to Byju’s, (ii) acquisition of a majority stake in ASK Investment Manager, and (iii) acquisition of a majority stake in Quality Care India.
- Sumitomo Corporation on its joint venture with Mukand.
- ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel on its acquisition of various ports and power assets from the Essar Group.
- Edelweiss Financial Services on the sale of its retail wealth management business to PAG and issuance of debentures.
- ChrysCapital on its acquisition of IDFC AMC as part of a consortium with GIC and Bandhan Bank.
- CDC UK Plc on its investments in (i) fintech start-up Indifi Technologies, (ii) B2B packaging material platform Bizongo, and (iii) Future Retail.
- RMZ on its joint venture with CPPIB.
- Amazon Digital Service Private Limited on the legal aspects of the launch of its prototype of Fire TV – Hotspot, a bundled content and connectivity service, as well as on the official launch of this service in India in 2021.
- India Resurgence Fund on its investment in various stressed assets, including Panacea Biotec Limited and Primacy Industries Limited.
- Aakash Educational Services on acquisition of the ed-tech platform Meritnation.
- New Silk Route on its exit from Varsity Education.
- Rabobank on enforcement of its security interest in various borrowers.
- Vistra (ITCL) India Limited and the bondholders of Reliance Capital Limited in connection with the recovery of debt from the borrower and disputes with other secured creditors with competing interests and claims.
- Incred on acquiring the technology platform InstaPaisa and investments in Incred from domestic and offshore investors.
