Dinesh is a partner in our capital markets team advising on equity and debt offerings, including IPOs, secondary and follow-on equity offerings, and Rule 144A debt and asset-backed securities offerings, as well as tender offers for M&A transactions and liability management transactions.
Dinesh also regularly provides US regulatory advice to corporates, investment funds and asset-backed issuers on the cross-border impact of the US Securities Act, the US Investment Company Act, the US Investment Advisers Act and the Dodd-Frank Act (including the US Covered Fund and Risk Retentions rules).
Dinesh is listed as a key lawyer for our equity and debt capital markets practices in the 2025 edition of Legal 500 and highly regarded lawyer in the IFLR 1000 for equity and debt capital markets.
Background
Admitted to the Bar of the State of New York, 2005
J.D., Boston College Law School, 2004
M.A. in Law and Diplomacy, Fletcher School, 2004
Experience & expertise
Selected matters
Equity Capital Markets
- British Land on its £301 million placing, retail offer and directors' subscription to finance in part its acquisition of seven retail parks from Brookfield
- Aguila on its exit of Spanish REIT Inmobiliaria Colonial via an accelerated bookbuilt offering
- Singtel on its sale of shares in Bharti Airtel to GQG Partners via an accelerated bookbuilt offering
- ACG Acquisition Company on its $150 million IPO on the London Stock Exchange (for the sole bookrunner)
- Petershill Partners on its £1.2 billion IPO and listing on the London Stock Exchange (for the banks)
- SOK Marketler on its TL 2.3 billion IPO and listing on the Istanbul Stock Exchange
- Kaspi.kz on its IPO on the London Stock Exchange (for a private equity selling shareholder)
- CIAN plc on its $300 million IPO and listing on the New York Stock Exchange (for a private equity selling shareholder)
- Mr Spex on its €350 million IPO and listing on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (for a private equity selling shareholder)
- EcoOnline on it NOK 1.6 billion ($188.6 million) IPO on Oslo's Euronext Growth Market (for a private equity selling shareholder)
- Hipgnosis Songs Fund on its debut Rule 144A equity offering
- Saga plc on its £150 million Rule 144A equity placement
- Fix Price on its US$1.66bn London and Moscow GDR IPO (for a private equity selling shareholder)
- Schiehallion Fund on its IPO and Admission to the London Stock Exchange
- RTW Venture Fund on its IPO and Admission to the London Stock Exchange
- Eurobank Ergasias on its €2.864 billion recapitalisation (for the banks)
- Piraeus Bank on its €1.75 billion equity offering (for the banks)
- Zoopla Property Group on its IPO and Admission to the London Stock Exchange (for the banks)
- Damac Real Estate Development on its IPO and US$348 million listing on the London Stock Exchange (for the banks)
- BioPharma Credit on its US$761.9m (£613m) IPO and listing on the Special Fund Segment of the London Stock Exchange
Debt Capital Markets
- The Government of Kenya on the partial refinancing of its June 2024 Notes via a tender offer with a new issue of $1.5 billion 9.75% Rule 144A/Regulation S Notes
- The Weir Group PLC on its $800 million debut sustainability-linked Rule 144A Yankee bond offering
- Republic of Ghana on its $3.025 billion Rule 144A bond offering (for the banks)
- United Bank for Africa on its $350 million Rule 144A bond offering
- Ecobank Transnational Incorporated on its $350 million Tier 2, Basel III-compliant sustainable bond offering and Rule 144A (for the banks)
- Ecobank Nigeria on its $300 million Rule 144A bond offering (for the banks)
- QNB Finansbank on its $500 million offering senior unsecured Rule 144A notes due 2024 (for the banks)
Mergers and Aquisitions
- Synthomer plc on its £204 million rights issue in connection with its £654 million acquisition of Omnova
- British American Tobacco plc, on the US securities law aspects of its acquisition of a 19.9% stake in Canadian cannabis firm Organigram
- Sky plc on US securities law aspects of its £3.4 billion sale of Sky Bet to the Stars Group
- DNB Bank ASA, on the US securities law aspects of its acquisition of Sbanken
Sectors
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