Arvind Gurumurthy

Joint Managing Partner - South Region

Email - arvind.gurumurthy@whiteandbrief.com

Phone- +919742857555

Arvind is a Partner heading the South India Practice in the Private Equity, Venture Capital, M&A, General Corporate, Intellectual Property & Technology practice verticals and in addition co-heading the Labour & Employment and Real Estate practice areas.

Arvind brings nearly 20 years of experience having worked with numerous top tier law firms in the past. He is an experienced corporate and commercial lawyer with several years of experience and focus in M&A, VC/PE, General Corporate Advisory, Commercial Contracts & Real Estate practice areas.

Arvind has represented a multitude of funds and companies on investment transactions at seed, growth and mature stages and has also been involved in advising on numerous domestic & cross border acquisitions, strategic acquisitions, joint ventures, technical collaboration transactions of varying size and complexities.
He is a seasoned lawyer that is well entrenched in the ecosystem to understand the key issues, strategies and sensitivities involved in helping maneuver the issues & successfully close the transactions.

Arvind also regularly advises numerous small to large corporates (especially global MNCs with operations in India) on various areas critical to them as part of their day-to-day operations such as setting up business (which includes office/factory/warehouse etc.), obtaining licenses & registrations, wide range of regulatory issues, advice on varied types of commercial contracts, real estate property sale & acquisition, closure of operations etc.

Arvind’s recent focus has also largely included working with startups having advised several startups on fund raise, streamlining their regulatory compliances, structuring inter promoter arrangements, stock option related structuring, advice & documentation, employment law issues.

As a charter member of TiE, Bangalore chapter and affiliation with numerous startup accelerator programs, Arvind actively collaborates in conducting mentoring sessions, workshops and pro-bono activities all aimed at nurturing and supporting emerging entrepreneurs.

Arvind has individually and jointly authored several papers published in Mondaq, IVCA Magazine, Jus Laboris Network etc.

Arvind obtained his Bachelor of Law from University Law College (Bangalore University) and has a Master’s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is admitted to the Bar Council of India and New York Bar.

Indicative Matters & Experience

Investment Transactions

  • Involved in advising numerous venture capital investment transactions by reputed venture capital investors (such as Oiko Credit, Cabra VC, Rebright Partners, Omnivore Partners, Accel India, Kalaari Capital etc.) which has included conducting due diligence, drafting & negotiations on transaction & closing documentation.
  • Recently advised a well reputed startup on Series C funding of USD 20 Mn from marquee offshore investors. Similarly, have advised numerous early to growth stage companies in varied sectors such as agri-tech, fintech, health tech, machine learning & artificial intelligence, automotive, consumer products etc. on fund raise transactions of ticket size ranging from USD 2 Mn to USD 25 Mn;
  • Advised on ODI investments by Indian entities into coal, gold, IT, oil & infrastructure companies in countries outside India such as US, Ghana, Columbia etc.
  • Advised on restructuring the shareholding of companies from India to Singapore, US and re-domiciling holding entities outside India into India.
  • Advised on several debt related transactions – including venture debts, syndicated loans from banking consortium, hire-purchase agreements etc. which has included preparing all the necessary documentation related to such transactions.

M&A Transactions

  • Involved in advising on several cross-border acquisitions transactions with ticket size ranging from $5 - $100 Mn representing globally reputed companies such as ALS Global, SHAREit Technologies, Borzo Delivery, Corning, etc. and also been involved in advising Indian companies being acquired by global companies.
  • Involved in advising on the India leg of global acquisitions which involves complexities pertaining to transfer of movable & immovable assets, IP, employees, contracts etc.;

Joint Venture Transactions

Involved in advising on several cross border and domestic joint venture & strategic collaboration arrangements of varied ticket sizes.

General Corporate Advisory

Regular advisor to several large MNCs and domestic companies on various areas such as general corporate, regulatory, IP, Data Privacy, Labour & Employment, Real Estate (sale & acquisition), Setting up operations (including factory, warehouse), Licenses & Registrations etc.

Commercial Contracts, Technology & Data Privacy

  • Drafting and advice on numerous types of business and commercial contracts, technical collaboration & IP ownership contracts, Asset Sale agreements, IP license and assignment agreements, Confidentiality & Non-disclosure agreements etc. and advice & assistance on making IP Ownership claims.
  • Advise on data privacy & cyber security related issues – ranging from advising on data collection, processing, storage/retention, purging etc. based on applicable regulations which includes Indian data privacy laws, GDPR etc. in collaboration with cross border experts for providing such advice.

Employment

  • Advised and assisted on several employment related issues such as drafting various employment agreements and policies, employee severance, structuring of compensation and benefits, consulting and secondment arrangements, resolving employee-employer disputes (including labour union issues before labour tribunal), carrying out internal legal audit enlisting external experts specializing in labour related filings etc.;
  • Collaborating with industry experts to advice & assist with drafting of necessary policy/framework document required under the POSH, external member in Internal Complaints Committee (required under POSH), conducting regular POSH training sessions etc.

Construction & Real Estate

Advised several large companies on lease, sale, acquisition of real estate property, which includes conducting property title diligence, drafting, negotiation and finalisation of Sale Agreements, Lease agreements, Loan and mortgage related agreements etc. Also involved in advising landowners on high value Joint Development & Construction Agreements, cross border investments in construction & real estate projects in India & repatriation of proceeds.

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