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Karan Kalra

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Karan is a dual-qualified attorney with close to 19 years of experience in the legal industry.

On corporate transactions, he focuses on cross-border and domestic private equity, M&A, venture capital, joint ventures, and structured finance. Karan has led numerous headline transactions for marquee clients. His advisory experience is broad-based, ranging from innovating novel structures for fund formation, debt, equity, and hybrid investments to advising clients on private client work, commercial, regulatory, pre disputes advisory and corporate governance matters. He also works actively on advising on W&I insurance matters. While Karan believes in maintaining a sector-agnostic approach, he has gained domain expertise in financial services, technology, e-commerce, healthcare, renewables, and infrastructure.

Karan regularly delivers guest lectures at leading educational institutions and is a permanent faculty member at Economic Times and VCCircle trainings. Karan is also often quoted on legal issues in various publications.

Bar Admissions

  • New York Bar Association
  • Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa

Directory Recognition

  • IFLR 1000
  • India Business Law Journal
  • Financial Times – RSG Consulting
  • Legal500
  • Chambers & Partners
  • Asialaw

Prior Work Experience

  • Nishith Desai Associates
  • ICICI Bank

Alma Mater

  • Northwestern University — Pritzker School of Law, Chicago
  • Symbiosis Law School, Pune
  • St. Columba’s School, New Delhi
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Private Equity & Venture Capital

  • Private equity and venture capital investments, angel / seed funding and secondary transfers
  • Externalisations, flips and internalisations
  • Exits for private equity and venture capital investors, unlocking value for promoters
  • Running mandates for investment funds, family offices, HNIs, multilateral organizations, corporates, etc.
  • End to end legal solutions for fund raising

Mergers & Acquisitions

  • Control deals in promoter-backed companies, 100% acquisitions, competitive bid processes, mergers, joint ventures, business transfers, asset sales and acqui-hires
  • Inbound and outbound acquisitions for global private equity firms, HNIs, multilateral organizations and corporates
  • Regulated mergers, demergers, capital reductions, amalgamations and distressed acquisitions
  • W&I insurance advisory

Banking & Finance

  • New-age debt including venture debt, revenue- based financing, peer to peer lending models etc.
  • Structured debt, mezzanine financing, domestic and cross border institutional lending, listed / unlisted INR and foreign currency bond issuances, fund / non-fund based facilities and convertible notes
  • Debt restructuring including distressed and pre-bankruptcy arrangements
  • Clientele includes non-banking financial entities, international banks, foreign institutional investors, social impact funds, venture debt investors

Regulatory

  • Industry focus on financial services, insurance, e-commerce, technology and healthcare
  • Setting up, acquisitions and licensing of regulated entities
  • Regulatory representation and advice including before SEBI, RBI, FIFP, DPIIT, IRDAI, IFSCA, CCI, etc.

Private Client

  • Succession and estate planning, family charters, private wealth management, asset ring fencing, separations, corporate holding structures, family offices and offshoring structures
  • Structuring and implementation of investment and estate planning vehicles, including domestic and offshore trusts
  • Pre-exit structuring for senior management

Investment Funds & Asset Management

  • End to end fund setup and advisory for domestic AIFs, IFSCA, cross border funds, FPIs and investment vehicles
  • Carried interest structuring and key person compensation arrangements
  • LP-GP negotiations and managing LP due diligence
  • Setting up and advising co-investment structures, p-notes as well as VCC / PCC structures
  • Regulatory advice and interface including in adversarial situations

Dispute Resolution

  • Representation in domestic and international disputes, including institutional and ad hoc arbitrations
  • Pre-dispute strategy, risk management and dispute avoidance advisory
  • Enforcement of contracts, judgements, and arbitral awards, including cross-border enforcement
  • Special focus on shareholder disputes, debt recovery, governance matters, tax litigation, construction disputes and regulatory matters
  • Management of multi-jurisdictional disputes and international counsel coordination

General Corporate

  • Establishing efficient and bespoke vehicles in India including structuring of entities, capitalisation and obtaining licenses and approvals
  • Cross border and domestic arrangements including licensing, technology transfers, franchise and service agreements
  • Business issues relating to general corporate law, commercial law, contact law and governance
  • Specific focus on structuring product and service offerings

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