New Publication: Structuring Platform Investments in India For Foreign Investors

Legal, Regulatory and Tax Considerations

We’ve all heard the phrase – “Together Everyone Achieves More (TEAM)”. The world of private equity (“PE”) investments has also adapted the wisdom of this adage to create an innovative structure for investments, collaboratively through “platforms” run by two or more institutional investors together. Investments into “platforms” have become a very common model for foreign investment into India. In the context of India deals, a transaction involving a platform entity involves two or more investors pooling their investments together into a special purpose vehicle (the “Platform”), and such Platform subsequently undertaking investments into an Indian target or multiple Indian targets (“Target”). Structuring transactions through Platforms have recently attracted the attention of multiple foreign investors, all thanks to the advantages that this structure provides at the time of investment, flexibility for future investments and fund raise, etc.

In this paper, we talk about Platform entities and what deal team members should evaluate while structuring transactions through these entities. Whether it’s platform heels or Platform deals, the “heights” achieved are similar!

Please click here to access our paper.

Regards,

Palomita Sharma, Parina Muchhala, Anurag Shah and Nishchal Joshipura

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