FOREIGN LAW FIRMS

Berwin Leighton Paisner

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PROFILE

  • Size of India Practice:

  • Tie-Up Indian Law Firm:

  • No formal arrangement

  • Clients:

  • Aditya Birla Minacs,Great Eastern Energy Corporation,Larsen & Toubro, Apeejay Surrendra,HCL Technologies,Reliance Big Entertainment, Axis Bank Ltd,Infosys,State Bank of India, BSEL Infrastructure Realty,Intelenet Global Services,Taj Hotels Butterfield Fulcrum Group,Jet Airways,Tata Consultancy Services, Diligenta,Kingfisher Airways,Tech Mahindra, Elecon Engineering, Komli Media, EXIM Bank,L&T Infotech.

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RECENT INDIA ACTIVITY:

Acquisition of Benzler-Radicon group by The Elecon Engineering Company.

In 2010/11  BLP advised on the English law aspects of Elecon’s £18.4m acquisition of the Benzler-Radicon group of businesses from David Brown Gear Systems. Elecon is a listed Indian gearbox manufacturer.

 

BLP advises Great Eastern Energy Corporation

BLP advised Great Eastern Energy Corporation, India's first producer of coal-bed methane gas, on the introduction of its Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs) to the London Stock Exchange's Standard List and to admission to trading on the Main Market at a market capitalisation of £570m. The GDRs were previously listed on AIM.

Diligenta secures deal with Phoenix Group and Old Mutual International

 A completed a deal which saw Diligenta, TCS's wholly owned UK life & pensions industry BPO provider, secured major business wins with Phoenix Group and Old Mutual International following the sale of Unisys Insurance Services Limited’s UK life & pensions services business to Diligenta. This deal, which was valued at £250m, was also named as one of the 2010 Deals of the Year by the India Business Law Journal (IBLJ)es - completed a deal which saw Diligenta, TCS's wholly owned UK life & pensions industry BPO provider, secure major business wins with Phoenix Group and Old Mutual International following the sale of Unisys Insurance Services Limited’s UK life & pensions services business to Diligenta. This deal, which was valued at £250m, was also named as one of the 2010 Deals of the Year by the India Business Law Journal (IBLJ).