Khaitan & Co. and Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas have advised Mindspace Business Parks on its $676 million IPO, with Sidley Austin representing the lead managers.

This is India’s second REIT offering, and the second-largest equity fundraising by a real estate entity in more than 10 years.

Mindspace is backed by Mumbai-based realtor K Raheja Corp and private equity firm Blackstone Group, which were also counselled by SAM.

The Khaitan team was led by partners Sudhir Bassi and Subhayu Sen.

Meanwhile, partners Manoj Bhargava, Ankit Kashyap, Nicholas R. Brown, Jason A. Friedhoff and Leonard Ng led the Sidley team.

The SAM team, which represented Mindspace REIT, the manager, the sponsors and the KRC selling unitholders, was led by partners Nikhil Naredi, Jay Gandhi, Shilpa Mankar Ahluwalia and Gauri Chhabra.

Partners Monal Mukherjee and Mithun V. Thanks led the SAM team which advised Blackstone.

 

 

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