AZB & Partners is advising IDFC FIRST Bank Limited on the proposed merger of IDFC Limited and IDFC Financial Holding Company Limited with it by way of a composite scheme of amalgamation. This is the second major merger in the banking space in the last few years after the HDFC Limited and HDFC Bank consolidation (which was also handled by the same deal team).

Our deal team comprises our Senior Partner Ashwath Rau, Partners Vipul Jain and Aditya Alok, Senior Associates Himanshoo Tembe, Saras Muzumdar and Shivani Goel. Our due diligence team includes our Counsel Rina Goyal, Associates Prateek Jariwal, Mohammad Zaid, Shubhi Maheshwari, Pragyansh Nigam and Sukanya Hosmani; and competition law team includes our Partner Gaurav Bansal, Senior Associate Shivam Jha and Associate Varun Thakur.