Biswajit Chatterjee is a corporate partner and serves as co-chair India practice and leads the US securities laws practice focused on India, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Biswajit, better known as Bis, divides his time between Singapore and Dubai, and works closely with teams across SPB’s global footprint of 54 offices and 1,700 lawyers, making it the 8th-largest global law firm (Amlaw Global 100) and a top 10 global legal practice (Law 360).
Bis focuses on equity and debt capital markets, corporate finance, M&A and PE transactions in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. He has worked across industries, including technology, fintech, energy, financial services, defence, infrastructure, real estate, retail and hospitality clients.
He also supports Indian clients and conglomerates growing their global operations on commercial matters, as well as corporate and employment issues. Bis has also worked on a range of regulatory issues, including economic sanctions, government procurement, white-collar investigations, corporate governance issues and other regulatory disputes.
Bis is highly ranked by Chambers & Partners, IFLR, Best Lawyers, Legal 500 and other legal directories. Chambers Global has consistently (2010-19) ranked him a highly regarded lawyer and confirm client testimonials that include “very professional and extremely thorough” who is “solution oriented”, “extremely knowledgeable about India and Indian client requirements”, and a “tough negotiator” who offers clients “incredible personal attention”.
Under his stewardship SPB has been top-ranked for equity offerings in India by Bloomberg (2018), Thomson Reuters (2018) and Prime Database (2016 – 2018) league tables; and was recognized as India Desk of the Year (2017) by Thomson Reuters IDEX awards; and as International Law Firm of the Year (2019) and International Capital Markets Law Firm of the Year (2017) by Legal Era.
Bis has worked on a number of landmark transactions, including on the US$4 billion Government of Indonesia MTN, US$2.3 billion SBI QIP, US$3.4 billion Coal India IPO, US$1.2 billion PFC FPO, US$1.3 billion SBI Life Insurance IPO, US$1.5 billion New India Assurance IPO, US$160 million Fairfax acquisition of Indonesian insurer, US$615 million NALCO OFS, US$250 million PFC OFS, US$1.1 billion Power Grid FPO, and the US$340 million Equitas Finance IPO. Eleven of his transactions have been selected as Deal of the Year transactions in the past four years by India Business Law Journal. |