Reeba Chacko

She has vast experience working with both domestic corporates and institutions as also foreign clients and international counsel in structuring complex private equity deals, domestic and cross border M&A, and in advising clients on regulatory and strategic matters on transactions, acquisition and investment strategies.

She has represented several leading global private equity funds, as well as large Indian corporates in her areas of expertise.  Her transactional experience ranges across various sectors including real estate and infrastructure, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, technology, retail and ecommerce, financial services and education.

Reeba is the National Head of the firm’s General Corporate (GC) practice that includes within it, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, and general corporate advisory amongst other specialist practices like Competition, Tax, Real Estate, Employment and Funds. The CAM GC practice comprises over 350 lawyers including 60 partners across multiple offices of the Firm.

Chambers and Partners has described her as “… energetic and knowledgeable, with a good ability to grasp and represent client requirements” and “good lawyer who has represented funds and companies on a lot of transactions.” She is especially recognized for her experience advising international private equity groups and venture capital firms in large-scale, complex transactions.

Reeba is one of the winners of the Economic Times “40 under Forty Award 2017 – India’s Hottest Business Leaders 2017”.  Reeba is also a recipient of the Economic Times “Women Ahead Listing” for the year 2017.

Reeba also led the firm’s COVID Support Group that assisted with and coordinated with hospitals for the covid vaccination drive in our office premises for lawyers / support staff and their families. Reeba also led the Group in assisting with hospitalization, hospital bed availabilities, sourcing medications and testing of our Firm members and their families infected with the virus during the second deadly wave that swept India.  

• Fosun group’s acquisition of a majority stake in Gland Pharmaceuticals from KKR and other selling shareholders valued at USD 1.3 billion
• Blackstone and Embassy group’s formation of the Embassy Blackstone REIT, the first REIT formation in India [CONFIDENTIAL]
• Acted as the legal counsel to KKR India Advisors Limited (KKR) in its majority acquisition of Ramky Enviro Engineers Limited (Company), India’s largest integrated waste management and recycling company with operations in India, South East Asia and Middle East.
• Tata Digital’s acquisition of majority stake in Big Basket [CONFIDENTIAL]
• KKR’s acquisition of Eurokids, the largest private equity investment in the education services space in India [CONFIDENTIAL]
• Brookfield investment in IndoStar
• Blackstone Group entities acquisition of assets from Prestige Estates [CONFIDENTIAL]
• CPPIB co-leads pre-IPO investment in Flipkart [CONFIDENTIAL]
• Temasek’s investments in upGrad and Unacademy [CONFIDENTIAL]
• Advised Google in its investments in Daily Hunt, DotPe, Glance Digital, and Open Bank

• ‘Band 1’ for M&A and Corporate, Chambers and Partners 2023
• ‘Highly Regarded’, IFLR 1000 2023, 2020 & 2019
• ‘A- List of Top 100 Lawyers’ by IBLJ 1000, 2019 & 2023
• ‘Recommended Lawyer’ by Legal 500, 2022
• ‘Women leader’, 2022 in IFLR1000
• Legal Era Leading Lawyers Rankings 2022 for ‘Leading lawyer champions’ for Corporate M&A.
• ‘Global Leader M&A’, WWL 2021
• ‘Band 2’ for PE, Chambers and Partners 2018 – 2020

• Bar Council of Delhi, India