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Yashwant Mathur is a senior partner with the Firm.

Yashwant has significant experience of over 27 years in corporate advisory, transaction documentation, litigation, and arbitration matters. Yashwant has led several debt and equity transactions in the automotive, manufacturing, infrastructure (power including renewable, roads and airports), debt restructuring, banking, insolvency, and real estate transactions advising foreign investors and Indian parties and has been involved in legal due diligence of several companies, drafting, and negotiating transaction documents and handling closing related issues. Yashwant specializes in advising clients on diverse corporate, commercial, employee and property law issues, shareholders’ issues besides domestic and international commercial arbitration and litigation matters. He has advised several clients, both domestic and offshore, on public private partnership, procurement in defence sector, contractual and general corporate matters, and regulatory compliance issues.

• Represented an offshore private equity fund in its several acquisitions of 100% stake in several Indian roads, assets and lead the team conducting the legal due diligence exercise and drafted and negotiated the transaction documents. Advised on the several legal issues involved in the Public Private Partnership projects in the roads sector in India.
• Advised and represented Indian and offshore companies engaged in real estate, healthcare, automotive, heavy engineering sectors in relation to their merger, acquisition, and joint venture transactions. Led the team of lawyers conducting the due diligence of the target and drafted and negotiated the transaction documents.
• Represented a Singapore based company in the power sector in relation to its acquisition of 60% equity stake in a leading renewable energy company in India. Led the team conducting the due diligence of various companies owning renewable power assets (hydro, wind and solar) and negotiated the transaction documents.
• Advised listed public companies in relation to preferential issue of securities, disclosure norms, classification of promoters and promoter group, takeover regulations, open offers, and various other compliance issues under the SEBI regulations.
• Acted as domestic legal counsel for Joint Lead Managers in a secured bond issuance by a major airport in India for substituting its offshore lenders by offshore bond holders, advised on several aspects of the Operations, Management and Development Agreement, Substitution Agreement and led the team undertaking the due diligence of the airport asset and reviewed the transaction documents.
• Acted as Lender’s Legal Counsel for the project financing loan granted by an international financial institution to an Indian Company in the renewable energy sector for developing and setting up a solar power plant in the State of Rajasthan. Led the team conducting the due diligence from a lender’s standpoint and drafted and negotiated the financing and security documents.
• Advised and acted as borrower’s legal counsel for a concessionaire company in the airport sector for project financing transaction for development and construction of an international airport in India.
• Advised various Indian companies engaged in diverse sectors in relation to raising of finance by issuing secured and or unsecured non-convertible debentures and drafted and negotiated the transaction documents and advised on the closing related issues.
• Advised a public sector undertaking in oil and gas sector in respect of certain contractual terms of the exploration and production sharing contract, crude oil pipeline agreement and crude oil transportation agreement, drafting of joint operating agreements, advising on corporate guarantee in relation to offshore financing for acquisition of oil and gas assets.
• Advised various foreign original equipment manufacturers on specific aspects of the relevant defence procurement procedure pertaining to a contract between the foreign vendor and its Indian offset partner on various routes for establishing business in India in the defence sector and advised on aspects pertaining to industrial licensing, standard form of the procurement contract, integrity pact, memorandum of understanding to be submitted to the Ministry of Defence, Government of India, and provisions pertaining to confidentiality/official secrecy, etc.
• Advised on specific aspects of the defence offset guidelines, computation of value addition aspects of products having imported components under the relevant defence procurement procedure of the Government of India, and certificate of origin with respect to evidence of import of goods into India.
• Lead legal due diligence on defence purchase orders placed on an Indian joint venture company in the defence sector for provision of MRO services for after-sales maintenance support in the defence sector.
• Advised and represented several companies on matters relating to securities laws, public law remedies, quashing petitions and commercial arbitration and drafted various pleadings.