Sayantan Dutta

Practice Areas

Mr. Sayantan Dutta is a Partner with the firm in the capital markets practice.

Career

Sayantan works closely on matters pertaining to IPOs, FPOs, Rights Issues, QIPs, IPPs, Offer for Sale through stock exchange mechanism transactions as well as InvITs. He has been involved in the largest IPO in India (One97CommunicationsLimited - ₹ 18,000 crore), the largest OFS transaction in India (Coal India Limited - ₹ 22,557.6 crore), the joint-second largest rights issue in India (Bharti Airtel Limited - ₹ 25,000 crore), the largest initial ADR listing by an Indian company (Vedanta Limited (then Sterlite Industries) – $ 2 billion) and he is currently advising on the proposed IPO by Life Insurance Corporation of India. He has representative experience for the issuers, merchant bankers as well as the selling shareholders.

Sayantan also has significant experience in advising Government of India in disinvestment transactions through IPOs, FPOs and Offer for Sale transactions and has advised the Government of India or the merchant banks in several significant disinvestment transactions.

Professional Memberships

Bar Council of Delhi

Personal

He holds a B.A. LL.B (Hons.), NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad