Natasha Agarwal
Natasha specialises in advising clients on schemes of arrangement, acquisitions, commercial contracts, corporate governance and advisory, and disputes. She advises clients in a range of sectors including IT / ITeS, education technology and manufacturing, among others.
Natasha also advises and represents clients on white collar laws (including, Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2001) inter alia, challenging attachment orders issued by the Enforcement Directorate; and on anti-defection aspects and election disputes in relation to 2019 and 2024 Odisha State Legislative Assembly Elections challenging the respective election results for specific Assembly Constituencies and the election of respective returned Candidates to the Odisha State Legislative Assembly.
During her practice, Natasha has advised the following clients:
- Skandysys Private Limited on its acquisition by Marvell Technologies Inc, a NASDAQ listed US entity;
- A Bangalore based tech company operating a technology platform for automation and waste segregation on its investment in a Luxembourg based European deep tech investment firm and family offices of an Indian real estate developer;
- A Bengaluru based manufacturing company on investments from a London based PE Fund. Transaction was valued at 35$ million;
- 73 Strings SAS, on various SaaS and other technology contracts with various PE Funds, pension funds and sovereign wealth funds;
- East India’s leading K12 school operator (a not-for-profit trust and school management company) in the K-12 Sector in structuring, management and acquisitions of educational K-12 institutions across India;
- East India’s leading K12 school operator in an expedited arbitration under Rules of the Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration, arising out of a school management contract, against a school landowner and public trust owning a leading school;
- A founder director and minority shareholder of a private logistics company in relation to shareholder disputes and oppression and mismanagement claims before the National Company Law Tribunal, Bangalore;
- Gurgaon based electricity distribution company and its CEO on criminal proceedings arising out of contractual breaches initiated by a State-owned electric utility company engaged in electricity transmission and distribution;
- A founder director and minority shareholder of a real estate company in relation to shareholder disputes and oppression and mismanagement claims before the National Company Law Tribunal, Odisha;
- A former director and shareholder of a logistics company in relation to investigations and show cause notices issued under Companies Act, 2013, post his relinquishment of office as director and shareholder, before Karnataka High Court;
- A leading infrastructure company, on diligence of the construction equipment manufacturing unit of a leading Indian engineering and construction company;
- Manjushree Technopack, a PE-backed manufacturing company on their diligence and acquisition of immovable assets leased by Odisha Industrial Development Corporation Limited for Oricon’s packaging business, with Khaitan & Co as the lead counsel;
- A leading infrastructure construction and consultation services company in a dispute before the Hon’ble High Court of Orissa, in connection with a tender award for Integrated Redevelopment of Bhubaneswar Junction Railway Station of Khurda Road Division of East Coast Railway, with Khaitan and Co. as the lead counsel.
Natasha was previously a Senior Associate with KT Advisors LLP and has led the following matters:
- India’s leading listed manufacturer of automotive components on their intragroup merger before the National Company law Tribunal, Delhi;
- A leading listed rail wagon manufacturer on their on-going demerger of infra-rail and green energy division to its wholly owned subsidiary through a scheme of demerger and arrangement;
- A listed cement manufacturing company along with its publicly listed subsidiary, and its two privately held wholly owned subsidiaries in the cement manufacturing business in their on-going intra group restructuring through a scheme of amalgamation and arrangement; and
- A public listed company in the cement manufacturing business in their corporate, legal (litigation) and real estate diligence on a listed company in the same sector in connection with the then proposed acquisition of controlling stake in the target company.