Wiseroy Damodaran
Partner - Corporate
Venture Capital | Private Equity | Mergers and Acquisitions
Overview
Roy primarily focuses on private M&A, private equity, venture capital and general corporate advisory work. Over the last 15+ years, Roy has represented investors as well as startups, growth stage companies and their promoters on fund-raising transactions, strategic acquisitions, mergers, demergers, acqui-hires, structuring employee stock option schemes, exits by way of swaps, business transfers and other general corporate advisory work. Roy has also been involved in several complex M&A deals involving restructuring of businesses and representing clients before authorities such as the (erstwhile) Foreign Investment Promotion Board, Reserve Bank of India, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Registrar of Companies and the Ministry of Home Affairs in connection with regulatory matters and transaction approvals.
Select REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS
Select representative clients that Roy has worked with on various corporate/corporate advisory matters, including M&A, fundraising and restructuring, are Accenture, TE Connectivity, Databricks, Pitney Bowes, Carta, Peak XV (formerly Sequoia Capital), LGT, Truecaller, Ninjacart, Gitlab, Vista Consulting Group, Experian, Entrata and Louis Dreyfus Company.
Education
- National University of Advanced Legal Studies.
Admissions
- Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa.
Select representative clients/matters
- Databricks on several M&A transactions in India, including the acquisition of Arcion Labs.
- Medlife Group on its sale to API Holdings.
- LGT Lightsone’s investment in Kauvery Hospitals.
- Agilon on its acquisition of My Personal Health Record Express, Inc.
- Carta Inc. on its India entry through the acquisition of ZenEquity.
- TE Connectivity on divestiture of its broadband network solutions business to CommScope.
- Pitney Bowes on the acquisition of terminal blocks business from ABB; sale of its software solutions business in India to Syncsort.
- Maini Precision on investments from Newquest and Paragon Partners; exit to TPG and proposed merger with Raymond group.
- Clayton, Dubilier & Rice’s on its acquisition of Carestream Dental.
