Tanya Pahwa

Ms. Pahwa is a member of the Corporate Group of Gibbons’s New York office. Her practice area focus includes mergers and acquisitions, private equity, early-stage and emerging growth, and general corporate and securities law. Ms. Pahwa is also a part of the Cross-Border Transactions Team at Gibbons.

Ms. Pahwa has nearly a decade of prior experience in leading large-scale public and private mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions across industry areas including technology, financial services, media, e-commerce, healthcare and pharmaceutical, infrastructure, and retail and hospitality. She regularly advises clients on general corporate and securities law matters, banking and financial regulations, and IT and data privacy laws. Ms. Pahwa has advised a wide range of international clients, including leading multinational corporations, sovereign wealth funds, private equity funds, venture capital funds, and strategic corporate clients.

Prior to joining Gibbons, she worked in the corporate and securities practice groups of leading law firms in India.

• Represented an American multinational payment card services corporation on its investments in a global payments company headquartered in India
• Represented India’s leading banking and financial services company on the $3.3 billion merger of its housing finance subsidiary with a leading private bank
• Represented a leading global private equity fund based in Canada on its $295 million stock acquisition of an Indian non-banking financial services (public) company
• Represented one of the largest private equity funds in Asia on its $325 million investment in the wealth business arm of a financial services conglomerate based in India
• Represented a French automation multinational company on its joint venture with a global private equity fund based in Singapore and its $2.1 billion acquisition of the electrical and automation business of an Indian conglomerate
• Represented a global technology-focused fund headquartered in the U.K. on its $1 billion investment in a leading technology and payments company
• Represented an Indian sovereign-linked alternative asset manager on its formation and its $1 billion investment round from a leading sovereign wealth in the Middle East
• Represented a financial services conglomerate on its $250 million investment by a leading Canadian pension fund
• Represented one of the largest asset managers in the world on a number of investments in the e-commerce and technology space in India
• Represented a leading e-commerce and cloud computing company on structuring its operations in India and advice on corporate and commercial matters
• Represented a leading instant messaging and voice-over-IP service company on its launch in India and its representation before the key regulators in India
• Represented a consortium of 15 foreign banks before the central bank in India on their data privacy and localization issues