J. Sagar Associates (“JSA”) acted as India counsel to Escalent, Inc. and its affiliates (“Escalent Group”) in connection with the acquisition of 100% (one hundred percent) of the shares of Integreon (India) Private Limited (part of the Grail Insights group) from NewQuest Capital Partners. The deal is proposed to expand Escalent’s ability to combine primary, secondary, syndicated, and internal business data streams.
Headquartered in Michigan, Escalent is a top human behaviour and analytics advisory firm specializing in industries facing disruption and business transformation and Grail Insights is a strategic insights consultancy founded by Monitor Group in 2006 and later acquired by NewQuest Capital Partners in 2016.
JSA Team comprised Joint Managing Partner and Lead Partner – Vivek K Chandy, Partner – Kumarmanglam Vijay, Of counsel – Pooranimaa Hariharan, Senior Associate – Aditi Aggarwal and Associate – Aishwarya Gopakumar.
Paul Hastings acted as US counsel to the Escalent Group and comprised the following team members: Partners – Jeff Wolf and Lindsay Sparks, Associates – Meera Patel, Angela Kim and Kristy Wiehe.
Kumarmanglam is an equity partner of the firm and also heads the direct tax and regulatory practice at JSA. He has more than 25 years of experience in matters relating to direct taxation (including international taxation, transfer pricing, litigation, anti-avoidance laws, and M&A tax), accounting, and corporate laws including mergers and acquisition, joint ventures, foreign investments, market entry strategy, and corporate restructuring.