Sumi Saikia
Partner - Corporate
M&A | Private Equity | Venture Capital
Overview
Sumi is a Partner in Trilegal’s Corporate practice. She specialises in mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital. She has worked on various share and asset acquisitions, joint venture transactions, as well as debt and public issuances. She regularly advises on compliance issues, corporate governance matters and contentious shareholders’ disputes.
Sumi’s experience spans real estate, fintech, e-commerce, defence, energy, infrastructure, manufacturing and renewables sectors. Previously she has worked as part of a legal team in a leading telecom company in India and has a deep understanding of the business. She also has significant experience in data centre and emerging technologies space.
Education
- University of London, Queen Mary
- Campus Law Centre, University of Delhi
Admissions
- Bar Council of Delhi
Select representative clients/matters
- Sapa Extrusion
sale of its extrusion business located at Kuppam, Andhra Pradesh to Hindalco Industries Ltd - DEG & IFU
external commercial loan to Revalyu Recycling (India) Ltd, a company engaged in the business of operating a plant for recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) chips - LICHFL TRUSTEE
debt infusion in certain infrastructure projects in India - Long Ridge Equity Partners, LLC
purchase of majority stake of the shares of Acqueon Technologies by its existing shareholders comprising of Everstone, CISCO and several individual shareholders - Castrol
investment in ki Mobility Solutions Pvt Ltd - James Fisher Defence Ltd
General advisory on corporate and regulatory matters for their activities in India - Israel Aerospace India Services Pvt Ltd (a subsidiary of Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd)
Regularly advises on corporate and defence regulatory matters
