Abhinav Kumar
Asia-Pacific Guide 2025
Band 3 : Capital Markets: Equity
Band 3
About
Provided by Abhinav Kumar
Practice Areas
Partner
Abhinav has over 15 years of experience in advising on capital markets transactions and focuses on a variety of capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings, follow-on offerings, rights issues, QIPs, preferential issues and secondary trades. He also regularly advises merchant bankers on risk analysis and SEBI related advisory.
Relevant Experience:
• Qualified Institutions Placement by Bajaj Finance Limited in November 2023
• Qualified Institutions Placement by Aditya Birla Capital Limited in June 2023
• Initial public offering of Rainbow Children’s Medicare Limited in April 2022
• Initial public offering of FSN E-Commerce Ventures Limited (Nykaa) in November 2021
• Initial public offering of Aditya Birla Sun Life AMC Limited in October 2021
• Qualified Institutions Placement of Zydus Wellness Limited in September 2020.
• Qualified Institutions Placement of ICICI Bank Limited in August 2020.
• Rights issue by Aditya Birla Fashion Retail Limited in July 2020.
• Initial public offering and QIP of Avenue Supermarts Limited in March 2017 and February 2020.
• Secondary trades by Standard Life Aberdeen of shares held in HDFC Life Insurance Company Limited and HDFC Asset Management Company Limited between 2019 and 2022
• Rights issue by Piramal Enterprises Limited in January 2020.
• Rights issue by Vodafone Idea Limited in May 2019.
• Qualified Institutions Placement by Bajaj Finance Limited in November 2019.
• Dollar bonds issuance by Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone limited in July 2020, 2018 and 2016.
• Qualified Institution Placement by Hindalco Industries Limited in March 2017.
• Initial public offering of Larsen & Toubro Infotech Limited in 2016.
• Initial public offering of Infibeam Incorporation Limited in 2016.
• Initial public offering of L&T Technology Services Limited in 2016
• Initial public offering of Sadbhav Infrastructure Project Limited in 2015.
• Rights issue by Indian Hotels Company Limited in 2014 and 2017.
Others:
Visiting faculty for Securities Law course at Government Law College, Mumbai for 2018 - 23
Professional Memberships
Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa, India
Chambers Review
Asia-Pacific
Abhinav Kumar is a partner at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas' Mumbai office. He advises clients on large-scale equity transactions, with his client base including leading financial institutions.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Abhinav is well-qualified and knowledgeable. He is also able to give very balanced advice."
"He's very knowledgeable. He will always have an answer or direction."
"Abhinav is well-qualified and knowledgeable. He is also able to give very balanced advice."
"He's very knowledgeable. He will always have an answer or direction."