Nidhi Killawala is a Partner in the Corporate and Commercial practice group in the NCR office. Nidhi has over 13 years of experience in the private equity and venture capital space and her practice encompasses a wide range of complex business transactions, with an emphasis on venture capital and private equity transactions, M&A, strategic investments, and related corporate and securities law matters. Nidhi has been recognised as a “Recommended Lawyer” by Legal 500 (2023) and Chambers, Asia – Pacific (2022).
Nidhi has advised clients across the full-spectrum of corporate matters - including private financings of all stages, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and corporate governance matters. Some of her key clients include marquee and seasoned investors like SoftBank, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Google, General Catalyst, Peak XV (formerly Sequoia India), A91 Partners, ChrysCapital and Salesforce Ventures, to name a few.
Nidhi also serves as an independent director on the boards of Birlasoft Limited and HIL Limited.
Nidhi is also an active member of the Firm’s initiatives on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and is working towards creating a more diverse and gender-balanced organization – one that is more human and better reflects the full range of the world's diversity.
Corporate and Commercial
Private Equity
Mergers and Acquisitions
Advised on its: (i) Series A investment in Wheelocity; (ii) Series A and B investments in Exponent Energy; (iii) Series B investment in Zluri; (iv) Series C investment in Healthplix.
Advised on its: (i) Series D investment in CropIn Technology Solutions Private Limited; and (ii) investment in TWIDPay
Advised on its (i) USD 160 million Series E investment in OfBusiness, (ii) Series F and H investment in Unacademy, (iii) USD 100 million Series D investment in Mindtickle Inc, (iv) USD 250 million Series C investment in Zeta Investments Holdings Pte Ltd, (v) USD 90 million Series D investment in Whatfix; (vi) Series E investment in ElasticRun; (vii) sale of shares in Lenskart to ADIA as part of a USD 500 million round; and (viii) Series C and D investments in Ola Electric.
Advised Bertlesmann on its Series B investment in NatHabit.
Advised on its Series B and Series C investment in Resilient Technologies Private Limited (d/b/a ‘BharatPe’)
Advised on its Series B investment in Star Agriwarehousing and Collateral Management Limited, with IDFC Private Equity as a co-investor
Advised Founders on 100% sale of AESL to Think & Learn Private Limited (d/b/a ‘Byju’s’) for USD 1 billion.
Advised on its USD 8 billion SPAC business combination with Renew Power Private Limited
Advised on its: (i) Series D fund raise from InvestCorp; and (ii) Series D1 fundraise from Qatar Investment Authority (QIA).
Advised on its investment Maxivision and Asian Institute of Gastroentrology
Advised on the sale of its shareholding in Unitedlex BPO Private Limited to CVC Capital Partners
Advised on its acquisition of the water technology business of Ashland Inc, as a carve-out transaction
