Anu Tiwari

Practice Areas

Anu Tiwari

Partner (Co-Head Fintech)

Corporate, M&A, Financial Institutions, Technology

Anu has represented many Indian and multinational fintech, banking, broker-dealer, exchange, asset management, speciality finance and information/emerging technology companies on transactional, enforcement and regulatory matters. His transactional practice focus is on public & private M&A, capital raising, commercial agreements and activismmatters. Anu advises financial services clients on matters before the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), Ministry of Finance, Enforcement Directorates, Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) and appellate tribunals.

He is a visiting faculty at SP Jain School of Global Management, Government Law College Mumbai, and NUJS Kolkata

Relevant Experience:

• Gruh’s USD 3.3 billion merger with Bandhan Bank.

• IDFC’s USD 1.5 billion merger with Capital First.

• Warburg’s investment in IDFC First Bank.

• Brookfield’s USD 1.5 billion acquisition of IndoStar Capital.

• Zestmoney’s funding rounds.

• Visa’s investment in BillDesk.

• PayMate, Fulletron’s investment in Lendingkart

• CPDQ’s investment in Edelweiss Finance.

• Sachin Bansal’s acquisition in speciality finance and mutual fund space.

• Jio Financial Services on its asset management JV with BlackRock

• USD 589 million sale of IDFC Mutual Fund (MF)

• Acquisition of Indiabulls MF by GROWW

• CRED’s acquisition of Spenny

• Saudi National Bank’s investment in Credit Suisse

• Centrum Group and BharatPe’s setting up of Unity Small Finance Bank

• Bank of Baroda’s acquisition of Vijaya Bank and Dena Bank

• Amalgamation of L&T Finance, L&T Mutual Fund Trustee and L&T Infra Credit with L&T Finance Holdings

• Adani Group on the ongoing sale of its NBFC and Housing Finance businesses to Bain Capital;

• DMI Group’s USD 400 million fund raise from MUFJ

• SMBC’s investment in Aseem Infrastructure Finance (NIIF)

• CRED’s acquisition of Parfait

• CDPQ’s USD 250 million investment in Edelweiss

• Fullerton Financials’ investments in Lendingkart

• SVB’s India NBFC sale to Temasek

• AIG’s India exit – consumer/home finance

• MoneyGram’s USD 1.8 billion sale to Madison Dearborn Partners

• Western Union’s USD 910 million sale of its Business Solutions business to Goldfinch Partners and Baupost Group

• LegalZoom’s acquisition of Revvsales

• Hadeed Group’s investment in Gigin

• CRED’s acquisition of Hip Bar ‘wallet’

• Stripe’s acquisition of Recko India

Professional Memberships

• Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa

• Member of the RBI Committee on Household Finance

• Member of the SEBI Working Group on Mutual Fund Regulation