The greatest legal product ever sold was doing absolutely nothing
A business model where you charge premium rates to not work sounds like a joke you tell at a bar association mixer. For New York law firm Skadden, it was the foundation of a global empire. First Published on Bar and Bench If you run a service business, you are probably trying to figure out […]
High-Yield Financing Across US, UAE, and India Desks
Watch in 1 min video here India’s largest private credit transaction to date is a non-convertible debenture (NCD) issuance of up to INR 28,600 crore (~$3.4 billion) by Porteast Investment Private Limited, a promoter entity of the Shapoorji Pallonji (SP) Group. The transaction illustrates something about the cross-border debt market: the highest-yielding financing structures bypass […]
Global Capital Markets Strategy: Why Non-Issuer Parties Allocate Three of Five Seats on Indian Offerings
Hear me talk about it here Law firm attention targeting Indian capital markets routinely focuses on cultivating relationships with domestic corporate issuers. However, the published advisory rosters of large Indian offerings reveal that the issuer’s own relationship controls only one or two counsel appointments out of five, and that seat is typically the least likely […]
Cross-Border Bank Acquisitions Across UAE and India Desks
Watch in 1 min video here Emirates NBD’s acquisition of a majority stake in RBL Bank, through an equity subscription of approximately $3bn, has been announced by the acquirer as the largest foreign direct investment and equity raise in the Indian banking sector to date, and reported as the first instance of a profitable domestic […]
Reverse Flips: The Offshore Holding Company Was an Exit Structure | The Exit Has Moved
Hear me talk about it here Much of what is written about this corridor argues that the consequential decisions sit outside India: that capital is structured offshore, counsel is selected in the parent’s home jurisdiction, and the Indian entity is frequently the place where a decision is implemented rather than taken. There is a visible […]
Singapore and India Desks: Structuring Conflict Referrals and Regional M&A Coordination
Hear me talk about it here Cross-border legal practice on the India corridor is routinely analysed through an inbound lens: foreign capital enters India, international counsel coordinates the multi-jurisdictional structure, and a domestic Indian firm executes local diligence and regulatory filings. However, published deal records reveal two distinct transaction models that run in the opposite […]
Contracting Vehicle Development Across Japan and India Desks
Watch in 1 min video here Honda has contracted the vehicle engineering and platform development for its next three India-market vehicle lines to Tata Technologies. Under shareholding disclosures as of the March 2026 quarter, 53.35 per cent of Tata Technologies is held by Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles Limited, with a further 1.84 per cent held […]
What Corporate Carve-Outs Actually Transfer Across US, Singapore, and India Desks
Watch in 1 min video here The wave of Indian global capability centre (GCC) carve-outs running through the corporate market is a multi-year IT contract wrapped in an M&A shell. More than 20,000 professionals transitioned from multinational captives and technology subsidiaries to IT services providers in the 12 months to October 2026, with an estimated […]
Originating India Cross-Border Mandates Across London, New York, and Singapore
Hear me talk about it here Business development targeting the India corridor has traditionally focused on the domestic General Counsel. However, in cross-border finance, sponsor-backed M&A, and international disputes, the selection of international counsel is rarely made by the Indian company’s in-house legal department. It is decided upstream by the capital providers, offshore sponsors, and […]
Why India’s Foreign Office Ban Was an Accidental Hedge Against China Exits
Hear me talk about it here At least thirteen prominent US law firms have closed or significantly downsized their Greater China offices since June 2023. The unravelling became visible when Proskauer Rose closed its Beijing office after twelve years; Latham & Watkins and Winston & Strawn followed with office closures, Eversheds Sutherland announced plans to […]