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Niraj Visani

Niraj Visani

Associate
Baker & McKenzie Services Limited

Biography

Niraj is an associate in Baker McKenzie's Corporate M&A practice in London. Since joining the Firm as a trainee in 2017, Niraj has acted on a number of complex, high value transactions and has experience in cross-border transactions, joint ventures, corporate reorganisations, private equity and infrastructure transactions. In 2019, Niraj spent six months on secondment to the Firm's Tokyo office.

Representative Legal Matters

Recent transactions in which Niraj has been involved in includes advising: 

  • S&P Global on its merger with IHS Markit
  • Mondelēz International on its proposed partnership with Merlin Entertainments in respect of Cadbury World
  • Unilever on its acquisition of Paula's Choice, a leading digital-led skincare brand, from TA Associates
  • Mondelēz International on its acquisition of a significant majority interest in Grenade, a leading UK performance nutrition pioneer in the fast-growing high protein bar segment 
  • Lonza, a Swiss life-sciences company, on the successful sale of two capsule and softgel manufacturing sites in France and Scotland to NextPharma
  • GSK on the divestment of a pharmaceutical manufacturing site in Mississauga, Canada to Bora Pharmaceuticals
  • ScanSource on the auction process sale of its non-digital European business to Ten Oaks Group
  • An international company in the consumer goods & retail space on its potential IPO on the LSE
  • SS&C Technologies on the international carve-out aspects of its acquisition of IBM's Algorithmics business
  • Advising a NASDAQ 100 semiconductor manufacturer on its acquisition of certain assets from the administrators of a diagnostics company
  • Northland Power on its joint venture with Shizen Energy for the development of offshore wind projects in Chiba Prefecture, Japan with a combined capacity of approx. 600 MW
  • Fiera Infrastructure on the acquisition of IslaLink, the Spanish submarine communications provider, from EQT

Professional Associations and Memberships

  • Law Society England & Wales - Member

Admissions

  • England & Wales (2019)

Education

  • BPP Law School (LPC) (2017)
  • BPP Law School (GDL) (2016)
  • The London School of Economics and Political Science (BSc Government) (2015)
Baker & McKenzie LLP, an English partnership, is a member of Baker & McKenzie International, a Swiss Verein.