Pooranimaa Hariharan

Pooranimaa has over 12 years of experience in the areas of private equity, mergers & acquisitions, entity formation and governance, as well as business structuring/ restructuring, across sectors.

In addition to transactional work, she also routinely advises clients on the general corporate compliance requirements under various Indian laws.

Relevant Experience:

*Experience listed below is that of the partner before joining the firm

Advised a diamond-grading company in connection with the acquisition of 100% of its shares by one of the world’s largest private equity firms, pursuant to a secondary acquisition.
Advised a Chinese investor in connection with its exit from an Indian entity operating as a news aggregator.
Advised a Singapore sovereign wealth fund in connection with the acquisition of commercial office assets, in partnership with a listed REIT.
Advised certain institutional investors in connection with their stake sale in an Indian entity operating an online scooter renting platform, by way of a swap deal.
Advised a food e-commerce platform in connection with its investment in an entity operating cloud kitchen, by way of a swap deal.
Advised an American social media conglomerate in connection with its investment in an Indian startup operating in the EdTech space.
Advised an American multinational technology company in connection with its second and third rounds of investment in a service provider in the prepaid and gift card space.
Advised an American multinational technology company in connection with the (I) primary investment by it into a Singapore headquartered e-commerce company having operations in India, and (II) sale of its India entity.
Advised a global organization, that provides logistics and end to end supply chain management services, in connection with the (I) exit of two PE funds through a stake sale to a Canadian pension fund, (II) investment by a Singapore based PE fund through a combination of primary and secondary investments, and (III) secondary investment by a large Japanese conglomerate.
Advised a large Indian developer in connection with the sale of assets/ undertakings comprising operational retail and office assets as part of Phase I of the transaction.
Advised a Singapore based real estate development, investment and property management company in connection with several acquisitions in India, predominantly in the warehousing and logistics space.
Advised the promoters of a leading hospital chain in connection with multiple rounds of fund raise from private equity players.