Khaitan, AZB, Simpson Thacher, Kirkland act on acquisition of Healthium Medtech by KKR

KKR has signed definitive agreements to acquire Indian medical devices company, Healthium Medtech Limited from Apax Partners. KKR is making this investment from its Asian Fund IV. 

AZB & Partners represented KKR.

The transaction team consisted of Nandish Vyas (Senior Partner) and Malaveeka Chakravarthy (Partner).

They were assisted by Nishanth Ravindran (Partner) and Ajay Singh Solanki (Partner) on employment related aspects, Malini Raju (Partner) on real estate aspects, and Bharat V Budholia (Partner) on the competition law aspects.

Khaitan & Co advised Apax Partners and Healthium Medtech on this transaction.

The transaction was led by Kartick Maheshwari (Partner), Bijal Ajinkya (Partner), Aishwarya Nagpal (Partner), Reshma Abraham (Principal Associate), Avin Jain (Principal Associate), Vismita Gahlot (Senior Associate) and Yashvi Shah (Associate) with assistance from Deepak Kumar (Partner, Employment), Supratim Chakraborty and Sumantra Bose (Partners, Data Privacy), Shourya Sengupta (Partner, Corporate), Shailendra Bhandare (Partner, Intellectual Property), Mayank Jain (Partner, SEZ), Moin Ladha and Abhishek Dadoo (Partners, Regulatory), Vanita Bhargava (Partner, Litigation), Sudheer Madamaiah and Kshitij Bishnoi (Partners, Real Estate).

Kirkland & Ellis also advised Apax Partners and Healthium Medtech on this transaction with a team lead by Srinivas Kaushik (Partner) and Jacob Traff (Partner).

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett acted as international counsel for KKR with a team lead by Ian Ho, Clare Gaskell, Jonathan Stradling, Valerie Fung, Jasper Ma, Shirley Foo and Fran Towers (M&A); Makiko Harunari, Alvin Kwong, Paul Kim and Tianyu Ma (Credit); Étienne Renaudeau, Henry Llwellyn, Lina Kim, Pauline Patat and Jessie Li (Antitrust); Meredith Jones and Ruoxi Zhang (Tax); Vanessa Burrows and Jacob Madden (Healthcare); Lori Lesser, Nicholas Westbrook, Margerite Blase, Camilla Gelson-Thomas and Alysha Sekhon (IP/data privacy); and Steven DeLott (Insurance).

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