Varun Kapila
Varun is a transactional lawyer with 15 years experience and was called to the Bar of England and Wales (Lincoln’s Inn) before cross qualifying as a solicitor. He joined D.V. Kapila & Co. in March 2018, having previously practised with Herbert Smith Freehills LLP in London for 10 years.
Varun started his career specialising in asset management and equity capital markets, before broadening his practice to cover private M&A, restructuring and real estate. His clients include local and international corporates, financial institutions, asset managers, early stage companies and start-ups, funds and family offices. Matters on which Varun has advised during the course of his career include:
General corporate, restructuring, real estate
- i. Structuring early stage investment in to companies in the tech space.
- ii. A foreign family office on asserting control over local assets including corporate governance requirements.
- iii. The majority shareholder of a publicly traded company on its aborted takeover bid.
- iv.The management of a publicly traded company on its rescue funding negotiations with DFIs and restructuring options.
- v. A horticultural producer and exporter on its rescue restructuring, including negotiating stand-stills and haircuts with creditors (banks and industry) and the sale of assets across multiple transactions.
- vi. A publicly traded company on its real asset investment and divestment options, including JVs with private industry operators.
- vii. A fintech on its internal reorganisation to transfer assets to a newco to facilitate the receipt of growth equity funding.
- viii. Man Group plc on its complex outsourcing of global shareholder, transfer agency, valuation, custody and middle office fund services to strategic providers and the subsequent implementation projects.*
- ix. BlackRock on the renegotiation of its suite of third-party management mandates.*
