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Arjun Bhalla
Biography
Arjun has experience working for large companies, financial institutions, and sovereign wealth funds on a wide range of complex cross-border M&A transactions including private acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, corporate re-organisations and other strategic investments.
These transactions have been primarily for clients in the banking, technology, energy and infrastructure, entertainment, automative and e-commerce sectors.
Arjun previously trained in the firm’s Dubai and Abu Dhabi offices and was recently seconded to the firm’s Tokyo office.
Practice areas
- M and A JVs and corporate reorganizations
- Corporate and M&A
Selected experience
- Fujifilm Business Innovation Corporation on its acquisition of three target entities in Australia and New Zealand from DXC Technology.
- DigitalBridge Group, Inc. on its acquisition of shares in JTower Inc, a publicly listed telecom infrastructure company that develops and operates shared in-building systems for mobile network operators in Japan, by way of the statutory tender offer process.
- A Japanese shipping company on its further investment in a Swedish company that supplies high-speed vessels to major players within the offshore wind industry.
- A Japanese lithium-ion battery manufacturer on the sale of approximately 50% of the issued share capital of its wholly owned subsidiary to a global asset manager headquartered in Singapore.
- A multinational financial institution on its acquisition of Sainsbury Bank’s core retail banking assets and liabilities, comprising its outstanding credit card, personal loan and savings account portfolios.
- A multinational financial institution on the sale of its European asset servicing business to CACEIS.
- Savvy Gaming Group, a subsidiary of the Public Investment Fund of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, on its USD $1.5 billion acquisition of ESL Gaming and FACEIT.
- A Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund on the purchase of a minority stake in a UK-based entertainment company controlled by a large private equity investment firm.
- A Swedish packaging company on the sale of its minority stake in a publicly listed company in Pakistan.
- NEC Corporation on the sale of its global wireless backhaul business to Aviat Networks, Inc.
Education
- LLM, Commercial Legal Practice, BPP Law School, 2019
- LLB (Honours), Law, University of Leicester, 2015
- BSc (Honours), Psychology and Ethics, Law & Society, St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto, 2013
Admissions
- Solicitor, England and Wales, 2022
Languages
- English
- Hindi