Arka Mookerjee
Asia-Pacific Guide 2025
Band 3 : Capital Markets: Equity
Band 3
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Provided by Arka Mookerjee
Practice Areas
Arka’s practice area covers primarily equity capital markets issuances which covers a wide range of products such as Initial Public Offerings, Rights Issues, Qualified Institutions Placements, Initial Public Offering of Infrastructure Trusts and foreign currency convertible bonds.
Arka has been with the firm for 14 (fourteen) years. He has represented issuers, underwriters and selling shareholders in various equity and debt capital market transactions. He has many firsts to his credit. (i) He was part of the team which advised on the first ever Qualified Institutions Placement in the country; (ii) He was also a part of the team for the first ever public issue of Non- Convertible Debentures of Tata Capital Limited; (iii) Most recently he co-led the first ever IPO of an Infrastructure Investment Trust under the SEBI INVIT Regulations for IRB InVIT Trust and (iv) the first ever privately placed UNITs under the SEBI INVIT Regulations of L&T IDPL. He represents JSA in the sub-committee formed by SEBI in connection with drafting and amending SEBI INVIT Regulations. He is also instrumental in forming views on ICDR Regulations along with peer group law firms and lead managers.
Professional Memberships
Bar Council of Maharashtra
Bar Council of Goa
Personal
Arka is regarded as a pre-eminent lawyer in his domain and is consistently named in prominent legal directories.
He is highly regarded as the go to lawyer for underwriters and has represented the underwriters in several initial public offerings. He is rated as a ‘notable practitioner’ in the field of ‘capital markets’ by legal publications including IFLR.
He has been ranked in Chambers & Partners Indian and Asia Pacific. RSG Consulting noted Arka to be “highly recommended by clients” for Capital Markets in India for the year 2019 and stated he is known for his availability and knowledge.
Chambers Review
Asia-Pacific
Arka Mookerjee is a partner based in the Mumbai office of JSA. He takes on a considerable amount of IPO work and is experienced in private placements. He is particularly knowledgeable on InvIT regulations.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Arka Mookerjee provides excellent hand-holding. He is knowledgeable and very sophisticated."
"He is detail-oriented and client-focussed to the extreme. It is a pleasure working with Arka. He always under-promises and over-delivers."
"Arka Mookerjee provides excellent hand-holding. He is knowledgeable and very sophisticated."
"He is detail-oriented and client-focussed to the extreme. It is a pleasure working with Arka. He always under-promises and over-delivers."
Articles, highlights and press releases
1 item provided by JSA
USD 1.9 billion Institutional placement of units by the National Highways Infra Trust
JSA acted as counsels to the lead managers for the USD 1.9 billion institutional placement of units by National Highways Infra Trust (“NHAI InvIT”), to domestic and international investors. ICICI Securities Limited and SBI Capital Markets Limited acted as the lead managers to the transaction.
USD 1.9 billion Institutional placement of units by the National Highways Infra Trust
JSA acted as counsels to the lead managers for the USD 1.9 billion institutional placement of units by National Highways Infra Trust (“NHAI InvIT”), to domestic and international investors. ICICI Securities Limited and SBI Capital Markets Limited acted as the lead managers to the transaction.
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