Kripi Kathuria

Kripi Kathuria is a Partner in the New Delhi office of Phoenix Legal, with over 10 years of experience. Her primary practice area is Mergers and Acquisitions, and she is part of the corporate practice group, focusing on foreign direct investments, M&As, joint ventures, restructuring, and general corporate and commercial matters.

She advises foreign investors and multinational corporations on legal issues relating to financial and strategic investments, M&A and joint venture transactions, and various related aspects of Indian commercial and company law across diverse sectors including automotive, food & beverage, e-commerce, healthcare, information technology, insurance and manufacturing.

She regularly advises clients on labour and employment, competition law, data privacy and protection of personal information, corporate governance and foreign exchange laws. She also has significant experience advising foreign companies on establishing a presence in India and providing continuous support to their everyday operations.

Her recent experience includes representing and advising Dell Technologies Inc. in its US$ 4 billion sale of its Boomi business by way of sale of shares of Boomi Inc., a data integration company, to Bayshore Holdings 2021 L.P., specifically assisting in the internal reorganisation involving hiving off the Boomi business in India to a separate entity. She also represented and advised Cooper Standard Automotive Inc. in its divestiture of the rubber fluid transfer and specialty sealing business to Mutares SE & Co. KGaA, involving the sale of its manufacturing subsidiaries in India and the hiving off of its IT operations retained by Cooper-Standard in a newly incorporated Indian company.

She represented and advised Cooper-Standard in the divestiture of its anti-vibration systems automotive business to Continental AG, involving the transfer of all its equity interest in a joint venture company in India; represented Visteon Corporation in its US$ 410 million deal involving the worldwide sale of its automotive climate business to Halla Climate Control Corp., Korea (now Hanon Systems), involving the sale of one of its Indian manufacturing subsidiaries and the hiving off of its electronic business; and represented Kameda Seika Co. Limited, Japan, on a joint venture with LT Foods Limited, one of India's leading branded rice makers, to manufacture and sell rice-based crackers and snacks in India.

She also represented and advised Sumitomo Riko (formerly Tokai Rubber Industries Private Limited) in its US$ 24.3 million joint venture project with Imperial Auto Industries Ltd. for manufacturing rubber hoses for the automotive sector. She advised Applied Materials, Inc. on the India leg of a transaction involving the acquisition of the computational fluid dynamics modelling software business from the ESI Group, and on its US$ 7.5 million strategic acquisition of certain software assets and related IP and documentation from Synopsys Inc.

She advised Dell EMC on the transfer of business from Dell's Indian subsidiary, EMC Software and Services India Private Limited, to VMware Software India Private Limited, and on the 100% acquisition of Unifi Software India Private Limited as part of the global acquisition of Unifi Software Inc. She also advised Monster Energy Company on setting up a subsidiary in India and obtaining NOC and product approvals for its energy drinks from the Food Safety and Standard Authority of India, on the regulatory regime for import and manufacture of the drinks, labelling and packaging, and in a writ petition filed before the Bombay High Court and in appeal proceedings before the Supreme Court of India.

Other matters include advising the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) on its collaboration with Amity University, and advising several multinational automotive companies and OEM suppliers on distribution, supply, financing, regulatory standards, and recall and product liability. She has also advised and assisted various clients in reorganising and restructuring their operations in India, including transfer and retrenchment of employees, preparation of service rules, structuring compensation packages, drafting employment contracts, non-compete and confidentiality agreements, and advice on the protection of employee data.