Megha Krishnamurthi

Megha is an M&A lawyer with around a decade of post-qualification experience. Her primary practice areas are inbound and domestic M&A across sectors (with a focus on Pharma, FMCG and banking and financial services), corporate restructurings, strategic mergers / demergers, joint ventures, and general corporate advisory

She has extensively handled various Buy-side and Sell-side transactions, representing a wide range of clients including Indian and foreign investors, management of companies, conglomerates, shareholders and promoters. She has advised clients such as Wockhardt Limited, ITC Limited, Hindustan Unilever and Tata Consumer.

Relevant Experience:

Advising a US based pharmaceutical group on their proposed joint venture with a listed company in India for setting up a raw material facility (2025).
Advising an Indian listed Pharmaceutical company on structuring its patented drug business in the US (2025).
Advised Wockhardt Limited on structuring license and supply for its products in India and overseas (2024)
Advised an Indian listed pharmaceutical company on a potential strategic divestiture of select assets from its generic medicine portfolio (2022).
Advised a US-based healthcare entity on its potential acquisition of an Indian oncology care provider (2021).
Advised Wockhardt Limited on the sale of its generic formulations business to Dr Reddy’s Laboratories (2020).
Advised ITC Limited on its proposed acquisition of Aditya Birla Real Estate’s pulp and paper business (2025); equity stake in Ample Foods (Prasuma Momo) (2024) and Sunrise Foods Private Limited (2020).
Advised Tata Consumer Products Limited (TCPL) and Tata Coffee Limited (TCL), listed companies, in connection with an intra group restructuring involving demerger of the plantation business of TCL into TCPL (2022).
Advised Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) and Unilever PLC in connection with the merger of GlaxoSmithkline Consumer Healthcare Limited into HUL (2018).
Advised ITC Limited in relation to the demerger and listing of its Hotels division (2023-2025).
Advised Godrej Agrovet Limited in connection with the acquisition of the remaining 25% equity stake in its JV (Godrej Maxximilk Private Limited) from the JV partners who were foreign individuals (2021).
Advised Peak XV Partners and Sequoia Capital on the sale of 46.85% stake in Prataap Snacks (List Co.) (2024) Advised Ykone S.A.S., a French company, on its acquisition of an influencer marketing business from Barcode Experiential LLP, by setting up an Indian subsidiary (2024).
Advised Hampidjan, a listed company in Iceland, on its proposed acquisition of 75.1% stake in the Indian net and rope manufacturing company Kohinoor Ropes Pvt. Ltd. (Kohinoor) from the Baheti family members (2025).
Advised UBS AG on the Indian regulatory leg of the merger of Credit Suisse AG with UBS AG (2024).
Advised Sanlam on its proposed acquisition of additional effective economic shareholding in Shriram General Insurance Co and Shriram Life Insurance Co in India (2024).
Advised the Blackstone Group on acquisition of a controlling stake in Aadhar Housing Finance Limited (2019).