Dow Chemical and DuPont have recently completed their planned $130 billion merger to form Dow DuPont after the Competition Commission of India (CCI) cleared the said transaction, with certain modifications..Dua Associates acted as the Indian antitrust counsel for Dow Chemicals and the team was led by Partners Shiraz Patodia, Shashivansh Bahadur, Neeraj Kumar and Kunal Mehra..Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP was the instructing counsel for Dow..Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas was the counsel for DuPont with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP being the instructing counsel..Shardul Amarchand team was led by Partner Harman Sandhu along with Yaman Verma and Prateek Bhattacharya..The deal is one of the largest cross border combination/ mergers, and involves parties with significant footprint in the global market..This was only the fourth instance where the CCI has undertaken a detailed investigation popularly known as a Phase II investigation..The other three matters where CCI undertook detailed investigation include SunPharma-Ranbaxy, PVR-DT Cinemas and Holcim-Lafarge..Image taken from here.
Dow Chemical and DuPont have recently completed their planned $130 billion merger to form Dow DuPont after the Competition Commission of India (CCI) cleared the said transaction, with certain modifications..Dua Associates acted as the Indian antitrust counsel for Dow Chemicals and the team was led by Partners Shiraz Patodia, Shashivansh Bahadur, Neeraj Kumar and Kunal Mehra..Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP was the instructing counsel for Dow..Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas was the counsel for DuPont with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP being the instructing counsel..Shardul Amarchand team was led by Partner Harman Sandhu along with Yaman Verma and Prateek Bhattacharya..The deal is one of the largest cross border combination/ mergers, and involves parties with significant footprint in the global market..This was only the fourth instance where the CCI has undertaken a detailed investigation popularly known as a Phase II investigation..The other three matters where CCI undertook detailed investigation include SunPharma-Ranbaxy, PVR-DT Cinemas and Holcim-Lafarge..Image taken from here.