Prajna Mohapatra

Partner

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Prajna is an M&A and PE lawyer with over a decade of post-qualification experience.

Her primary practice areas are inbound M&A (with a focus on healthcare and financial services), PE investments and exits (control and minority), strategic mergers, amalgamations and joint ventures, corporate restructuring, and general corporate advisory.

Relevant Experience:

  • Columbia Asia Group on the sale of its Indian hospital chain valued at USD 280 million to Manipal.
  • State Bank of India on the establishment of a “payments bank” JV with Reliance Industries Limited.
  • JPMorgan Mutual Fund on the sale of all its schemes to Edelweiss Mutual Fund.
  • Religare Enterprises Limited on its exit from Religare Invesco Mutual Fund.
  • Essel Infraprojects on the sale of operational transmission assets and the proposed sale of under-construction transmission assets to Edelweiss.

Experience listed below is that of the Partner before she rejoined the Firm

  • Morgan Stanley Private Equity on its purchase of a controlling stake in India’s largest urology hospital chain.
  • GIC Singapore on the buyout by a Singapore-based JV between GIC and Xander of TSI Business Parks (Hyderabad) Private Limited which owned and operated a commercial office space SEZ facility called ‘Waverock’, valued at USD 259 million, from a JV between Allianz and Shapoorji Pallonji.
  • State Bank of India on its merger with 6 banks to create a global top 50 bank with an asset base of USD 450 billion, adding over USD 120 billion to SBI’s asset base and making it the first ever large-scale consolidation in India’s banking sector.
  • State Bank of India on its merger with 6 banks to create a global top 50 bank with an asset base of USD 450 billion, adding over USD 120 billion to SBI’s asset base and making it the first ever large-scale consolidation in India’s banking sector.

Memberships

  • Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa

Qualifications

  • 2022 Advanced LLM (Law & Finance), Leiden University, The Netherlands
  • 2012 B.A.- LLB. (Hons.), The National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), West Bengal
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Practice Areas

  • Corporate