AZB & Partners is advising KKR on their proposed acquisition (along with Singtel) of 82% (taking their ownership to 100%) of ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (a platform engaged in operation of data centres in ~15 countries, with significant operations in India) for USD 5.1 billion. This deal marks the largest investment by KKR in the APAC infrastructure sector.
Our M&A deal team comprises our Senior Partners Ashwath Rau and Atreya Bhattacharya, Senior Associate Heena Ladji, Associates Shubhalakshmi Bhattacharya, Harsh Gupta, Aditya Bamb and Tansa Shah; our projects and due diligence team comprises our Senior Partner Anuja Tiwari, Partner Mallika Anand, Senior Associate Tanusmita Ghosal, Associates Tanishq Khandelwal, Uday Sehgal, Vedant Singh and Articled Clerk Urmi Gautam; our antitrust team comprises our Senior Partner Bharat V Budholia, Partner Kirthi Srinivas, Senior Associate Varun Thakur, Associates Shivangi Pradhan, Varnika Agarwal and Arth Doshi; our disputes team comprises our Partner Anusha Jegadeesh and Associate Naman Nayyar; our real estate team comprises our Partner Ruchit Parikh, Senior Associates Veeral Vakharia, Jay Shah, Namrata Vora, Prateek Jariwal, Praharsh Vyas, Rohan Puskur, Jagmehar Saini, Associates Anmol Lilani, Pratyush Chaturvedi and Articled Clerk Disha Sonawane; our employment team comprises our Partner Nishanth Ravindran, Senior Associate Ankit Dutta and Associate Yashaswini Santuka; and our IP team comprises our Partner Nandan Pendsey, Esq., Senior Associates Rhea Ghanshani and Riddhi Tulshian.