Area of Expertise

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Shakti is a Singapore-based corporate M&A lawyer specialising in private equity, venture capital and cross-border investments, with a particular focus on the India-Southeast Asia corridor.

 

His practice spans the full lifecycle of private capital and strategic transactions, including PE and VC investments, growth and late-stage financings (including pre-IPO, cornerstone investments and OFS), exits, complex corporate restructurings, joint ventures and strategic alliances, as well as shareholder-related advisory in contentious and pre-litigation scenarios. He acts on transactions involving both investors and operating companies across high-growth and technology-driven sectors.

 

He has advised on complex, multi-jurisdictional transactions with deal values ranging from c.US$100,000 to c.US$12 billion (India aspects of a global transaction*), c.US$800 million (Singapore leg of a global transaction), and direct investments of up to c.US$250 million (investment in an Indian target*). His prior experience includes acting for and alongside teams advising sovereign wealth funds, global financial sponsors, multinational corporations, corporate venture capital arms, bulge-bracket financial institutions, family offices, founders and angel investors.

 

He brings extensive experience navigating legal and regulatory frameworks across APAC, with particular expertise in structuring and executing India-linked inbound and outbound investments involving Singapore and other regional jurisdictions, as well as cross-border investments.

 

He is a co-author and contributor to the Lexology publication Technology Mergers & Acquisitions: Singapore, and has also authored “The Tiger Global–Flipkart Decision and the Recalibration of India-Facing Investment Structures” published in the Singapore Law Gazette, the official publication of The Law Society of Singapore.

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Interests

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When he is not advising emerging businesses and investors on cross-border M&A and venture capital transactions, Shakti enjoys long walks, distance running, squash and billiards.

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Representative Experience

 

• Advised InfraRisk, a Singapore-based FinTech company with operations in Australia and the UK, and its shareholders, in connection with its 100% acquisition by AurionproSolutions Ltd. (an India-listed technology company) and its Singapore subsidiary.  

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• Advised Tripledot Studios (UK-headquartered mobile gaming company) on the Singapore law aspects of its approximately USD 800 million acquisition of AppLovin’s mobile gaming studio portfolio, comprising 10 studios and around 2,500 employees, in a transaction structured through a mix of cash, debt and equity.

 

• Advised Yield Labs (a premier AgTech venture capital fund) on its proposed minority equity investment, together with SEEDS Capital, in a cutting-edge Singapore-US robotics and machine-learning agritech company.

 

• Advised MakeO (Toothsi) in connection with its 100% acquisition of Zenyum, creating a leading pan-Asian clear aligner platform. The transaction involved the acquisition of a Singapore-headquartered, pan-Asia consumer healthcare business by an Indian strategic, with operations and regulatory touchpoints across Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, South Korea, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Japan, Malaysia and Indonesia.

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• Advised Milexia Group, a leading French technology group, on the Singapore law aspects of its acquisition of Syratron Technologies, as part of its proposed 100% acquisition of the target group. The transaction involved a complex India-led holding structure with a Singapore subsidiary, and our role included advising on cross-border structuring considerations, legal due diligence, the reorganisation of the Singapore entity within the wider group architecture, regulatory and corporate compliance interfaces, and the negotiation and implementation of Singapore-law governed components of the transaction documentation.

 

• Advised Bolt.Earth (India’s leading EV infrastructure and charging solutions company) on its Series A+ funding round, backed by a marquee investor consortium including Version One Ventures (a top North American venture fund with early bets on breakout technology companies), Union Square Ventures (a renowned New York–based VC firm with a track record of scaling global platforms such as Twitter, Coinbase and Duolingo) and Prime Venture Partners (a leading India-focused early-stage venture capital firm).

 

• Advised a UAE-based travel technology platform on its Pre-Series A fundraising round, securing commitments from prominent angel investors and early-stage venture capitalists, as part of its scaling push in the travel-tech ecosystem across the Middle East, and on transaction matters arising from the acquisition of its Middle East business by an Indian e-commerce company.

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• Advised a Singapore–South Africa based clean-energy impact enterprise dedicated to accelerating the energy transition on complex founder-level equity structuring, including sweat equity, internal founder transfers and incentive alignment.

 

• Advising an AI infrastructure and decentralised intelligence platform focused on autonomous agent networks and compute coordination on certain corporate transaction aspects of its non-priced fundraising round.

 

• Advising the developer behind a popular language learning app, based in Singapore, the company focuses on “edutainment” and has reached over 10 million installs on Android alone, on several commercial and corporate transaction aspects.

 

• Advised an artificial intelligence-enabled financial research, data analytics and software services company on its corporate transaction matters, including the review and structuring of the founders’ agreement and related governance arrangements.

 

• Advised Cloudverse  (a cloud FinOps services company), and its founder on various corporate, fund-raise and commercial transactions.

 

• Advised Juicyscore (a Singapore-incorporated company that provides global anti-fraud and risk assessment solutions) on certain corporate matters.

 

• Advised India’s largest cricket fantasy league platform on the acquisition of all shares in a Singapore-based NFT marketplace platform (specialising in officially licensed cricket digital collectibles) with global operations, particularly in India, from all its existing shareholders comprising leading venture capital funds, startup founders, angel investors and a national cricket board.

 

• Advised Singapore-based longevity and anti-aging clinic on its fundraising, with 500 Startups Global, one of the world’s leading international accelerators and venture capital funds, as the investing counterparty.

 

• Advising a prominent India-based technology and consumer brand on its strategic reverse-flip restructuring of its India operations, undertaken through a cross-border merger structure.

 

• Advised on the restructuring and recapitalisation of a Singapore education and enrichment platform, specialising in children’s holiday and summer programmes, positioning the business for sustainable expansion in the region’s fast-growing edtech and experiential learning sector.

 

• Advised certain angel investors holding a significant minority position in one of Singapore’s largest dental networks, with nearly 50 clinics and 160+ dentists, regarding a corporate restructuring.

 

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