Nallini Puri
Asia-Pacific Guide 2025
Expertise Based Abroad : Corporate/M&A (International Firms)
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Expertise Based Abroad
About
Provided by Nallini Puri
Practice Areas
Nallini Puri’s practice focuses on cross border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and franchising transactions. She has advised multinational corporates, private equity funds and sovereign wealth funds on their investments in UK, Europe and India.
Nallini’s recent work includes advising Veolia on its €2.4 billion divestment of the Suez UK waste business, Alstom in its €5.8 to €6.2 billion acquisition of Bombardier Transportation, Schibsted, the majority shareholder of Adevinta, in Adevinta’s $9.2 billion acquisition of eBay Classifieds and McDonald’s Corporation in the $2.08 billion formation of a joint venture with CITIC Limited and Carlyle to act as the franchisee for McDonald’s in China and Hong Kong.
Career
Nallini joined Cleary Gottlieb in 2008 and became a partner in 2018.
Professional Memberships
Senior Courts of England and Wales, New York, and India.
Chambers Review
Asia-Pacific
Nallini Puri is a London-based partner who covers a wide range of corporate and financial work, including acquisitions, joint ventures and de-SPAC transactions. Formerly practising within India itself, she has experience advising corporate clients in the financial and healthcare sectors as well as sovereign wealth funds on their business activities in India.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Nallini is a sharp attorney with great communication skills. She is a strong negotiator and advocate."
"She has great expertise and experience in cross-border transactions, particularly in high-profile deals in India. She is dedicated, thoughtful and a commercial, constructive and composed negotiator."
"Nallini is a sharp attorney with great communication skills. She is a strong negotiator and advocate."
"She has great expertise and experience in cross-border transactions, particularly in high-profile deals in India. She is dedicated, thoughtful and a commercial, constructive and composed negotiator."