HONG KONG, April 28, 2011 – The international law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP is boosting its India and Asian M&A practices with the addition of Sanjeet Malik as Of Counsel in the firm’s Hong Kong office and a member of Milbank’s Global Corporate Group. Mr. Malik will help coordinate Milbank’s India practice, as well as handle a variety of cross-border corporate and financing transactions for Asia-based clients, working closely with Anthony Root, managing partner of the Milbank’s Hong Kong and Beijing offices, and David Zemans, managing partner of the firm’s Singapore office. Mr. Malik’s practice focuses on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity and restructuring transactions, and he also has extensive experience in the acquisition and sale of distressed assets. His recent experience includes a leveraged buyout of one of the largest multi-brand retail chains in India and the auction of a major business unit of a telecom equipment vendor. Mr. Malik has also represented TPG Capital, one of the world’s largest private equity firms, in numerous transactions in India and Southeast Asia.
“Sanjeet has been widely recognized as a rising star in the Asia private equity and corporate market, and we are delighted to have him join us,” commented Mel Immergut, Milbank’s Chairman. “We look forward to leveraging his in-depth knowledge of the Indian and Asian markets and anticipate that this will allow us to continue to expand our services to meet the growing needs of our India and Asia clients.”
“We have seen an increased amount of work coming out of India,” said Glenn S. Gerstell, head of Milbank’s India Practice. “Since foreign law firms are not authorized to have an office there, we needed to build our resources nearby to meet the demands of our clients – whether companies located in India or strategic or financial investors outside of the country. The addition of Sanjeet to our Hong Kong office strengthens our capabilities in the region and will help us refine our focus on India.”
Mr. Malik received a J.D. degree from Cornell Law School, magna cum laude, in 2001, where he was an editor of the Cornell Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. He received an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Waterloo (Canada) in 1995, where he was a Canada Scholar from 1989 - 1991.
Milbank was one of the first law firms to become active in cross-border transactions involving India, starting with capital markets offerings by companies such as Tata Electric and Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited in the early 1990s. Since then, the firm has been involved in some of the largest transactions in the country, including the Reliance Petroleum Refinery project and more recently, last year’s US$10.7 billion acquisition by Bharti Airtel of the Zain Group’s mobile operations in 15 African jurisdictions, the largest ever cross-border emerging markets deal and one of the largest M&A and financing transactions involving an Indian company.
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