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Some of the key assignments handled by Ela amongst others, cover the following:

Competition Litigation:

• Represented South Asia LPG Company in an abuse of dominance investigation before the CCI, NCLAT and SC.
• Represented Nuziveedu Seeds in an abuse of dominance investigation against Monsanto Group before the CCI, Delhi High Court and SC.
• Represented Hyundai Motors in an abuse of dominance investigation before the CCI, NCLAT and SC.
• Represented various Japanese auto-parts manufacturers, male contraceptive manufacturer, paper manufacturer and conveyor belt manufacturer in cartel investigation before the CCI.

Merger Control:

• Ford Motor in relation to sale of its India business to Mahindra and Mahindra (2020).
• JSW Steel in the acquisition of BMM Ispat (2020).
• Sanaka Fund in the acquisition of Edelweiss (2019).
• IDBI mutual fund in its sale to Muthoot Finance (2019).
• Temasek in the acquisition of minority stake in IndiaIdeas.com Limited (2019).
• Pepsi for sale of its bottling operations to Varun Beverage Limited (2019).
• Teleperformance in the acquisition of stake in Intelenet (2018).
• Signode Industrial Group in relation to sale of its stake in Crown Holdings (2018).
• Reliance Infrastructure in sale of its power business to Adani Transmission (2018).
• ChemChina Corporation in the acquisition of Syngenta AG (2017).
• Cinepolis in the acquisition of two cinema theatres of DT Cinemas (2016).
• Mitsubishi Chemical for the acquisition of the majority stake by the Chatterjee Group (2016).
• UPL and Advanta in relation their merger (2016).