Vinit Patwari

Partner
[email protected]
+91 75061 56630
Mumbai

ABOUT
EXPERIENCE

ABOUT

Vinit is a Partner at JSA and has over 11 years of experience advising on complex domestic and cross-border transactions, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, venture capital and strategic investments.

His practice spans advising global investors and corporates on investments, acquisitions, business transfers, joint ventures, exits, regulatory structuring, and general corporate matters. Over the years, he has worked with a range of marquee clients, including Alibaba Group, Ant Group, ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel, GIC, SoftBank, Goldman Sachs and the Tata Group, on high-value transactions across sectors such as technology, retail, logistics, consumer, healthcare, life sciences, energy, manufacturing and financial services.

Before joining JSA, Vinit was associated with CMS IndusLaw, Trilegal and Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co.

Memberships

Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa

Education / Courses

LLM (International Business Laws), National University of Singapore
BLS LLB, Government Law College, Mumbai

Languages Spoken

English
Hindi

EXPERIENCE

Some of the key assignments in these areas handled and being handled by Vinit amongst others, cover the following: –

Advised and assisted Tata Consumer Products Limited in relation to their 100% acquisition of Organic India Private Limited from Fabindia Limited
Advised and assisted ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India Limited in relation to their acquisition of ports and power assets from Essar group and setting up a joint venture with Essar group for developing and operating a liquified natural gas terminal
Advised and assisted Claypond Capital in relation to their acquisition of a significant stake in Panacea Medical Technoligies Private limited
Advised and assisted GIC in rleaiton to their primary investment in Flipkart
Advised and assisted Alibaba group in relation to their investments into various target companies, including Supermarket Grocery Supplies Private Limited (Bigbasket), One97 Communications Limited (Paytm), Paytm E-commerce Private Limited (Paytm Mall), Busybees Logistics Solutions Private Limited (XpressBees), etc.; and their subsequent exit / partial exit from some of these target entities.
Advised and assisted Ant group in relation to their investments in various entities, including Zomato and also assisted in sale of stake by Ant group as part of the Zomato IPO.
Advised and assisted Flow Payments Pte. Ltd. in relation to their fund raise from PayPal, General Catalyst, Lightspeed, Square Peg, and certain other investors.
Advised and assisted Bidra Capital in relation to their investment in BigHaat.
Advised and assisted Nurix AI in their successful fund raise from Accel, General Catalyst and Prosus.