Reeba Chacko

She has vast experience working with both domestic corporates and institutions as also foreign clients and international counsel in structuring complex private equity deals, domestic and cross border M&A, and in advising clients on regulatory and strategic matters on transactions, acquisition and investment strategies.

She has represented several leading global private equity funds, as well as large Indian corporates in her areas of expertise.  Her transactional experience ranges across various sectors including real estate and infrastructure, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, technology, retail and ecommerce, financial services and education.

Reeba is a Senior Partner  of the firm in the General Corporate (GC) practice that includes within it, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, and general corporate advisory amongst other specialist practices like Competition, Tax, Real Estate, Employment and Funds. The CAM GC practice comprises over 400 lawyers including 85 partners across multiple offices of the Firm.

Chambers and Partners has described her as “… energetic and knowledgeable, with a good ability to grasp and represent client requirements” and “good lawyer who has represented funds and companies on a lot of transactions.” She is especially recognized for her experience advising international private equity groups and venture capital firms in large-scale, complex transactions.

• Advised KKR in various acquisitions like (i) of a controlling stake in Ramky Enviro Engineers, India’s largest integrated waste management and recycling company with operations in India, Southeast Asia and Middle East (ii) of a controlling stake in Eurokids, the largest private equity investment in the education services space in India and (iii) of a controlling stake in Avendus Capital Group;
• Advised Gland Pharma, KKR & Others in Fosun group’s acquisition of a majority stake in Gland Pharmaceuticals from KKR and other selling shareholders;
• Advised Blackstone and Embassy group’s formation of the Embassy Blackstone REIT, the first REIT formation in India;
• Advised Brookfield in its controlling investment in IndoStar;
• Advised Blackstone Group entities’ acquisition of assets from Prestige Estates group and in its investment in Xpressbees;
• Advised on various investments and exits by Warburg Pincus including acquisition of controlling stake in Vistaar Finance;
• Advised Blackstone Group on its bid for redevelopment of multiple warehouses that are currently operated by the Central Warehousing Corporation, on a PPP basis;
• Advised Alta Capital Management LLP / Hillhouse Investment on a 100% acquisition of Good Host Spaces (a student housing platform) from Warburg Pincus and Goldman Sachs;
• Advised Temasek on its investments into Mahindra Electric Automobile Limited, Mahindra & Mahindra’s subsidiary engaged in the business of manufacturing four wheeler electric automobiles, upGrad, Unacademy, FPL Technologies Private Limited (One Card) and Niva Bupa;
• Advised Kedaara Capital in its investment in K12 Techno Services (Orchid Schools);
• Advised ChrysCapital in its acquisition of majority stake in Jamocha Tech Private Limited, the developer of ProHance, a workplace analytics and operations platform;
• Advised Lumina CloudInfra Private Limited, an affiliate of the Blackstone Group in relation to 2 joint ventures with Panchshil Realty group ( Gramercy Techpark and Gramercy Business Hub);
• Advised Creaegis, BVP and ICICI Ventures in relation to a proposed primary investment in and secondary acquisition of securities of Solvy Tech Solutions Private Limited (Zopper);
• Advised Everstone Capital in relation to acquisition of a controlling stake by Everstone Capital in Softgel Healthcare Private limited (SHPL), a Chennai-based softgel pharmaceutical manufacturing company;
• Advised Kedaara Capital in relation to a follow on Series E1 investment by KC, Paramark, Premji Invest, and Blume Ventures in Manash Lifestyle Private Limited (Purplle.com). Paramark is a new investor and KC, Premji Invest and Blume are existing investors;
• Advised Keppel Land in relation to acquisition of Prime Grade Office Complex in Chennai from RMZ Corporation and CPPIB.

• ‘Band 1’ for PE, Chambers and Partners 2023 & 2024
• ‘Band 1’ for M&A and Corporate, Chambers and Partners 2023 & 2024
• ‘Highly Regarded’, IFLR 1000 2019, 2020 & 2023
• ‘A- List of Top 100 Lawyers’ by IBLJ 1000, 2019 & 2023
• ‘Recommended Lawyer’ by Legal 500, 2022
• One of the winners of the Economic Times ‘40 under Forty Award’ 2017 – India’s Hottest Business Leaders 2017 and a recipient of the Economic Times ‘Women Ahead Listing’ for the year 2017.

• Bar Council of Delhi, India