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Structuring Platform Investments in India For Foreign Investors
Legal, Regulatory and Tax
Considerations
April 02, 2025
We’ve all heard the phrase – “Together Everyone Achieves More (TEAM)”. The world of private equity (“PE”)
investments has also adapted the wisdom of this adage to create an innovative structure for investments,
collaboratively through “platforms” run by two or more institutional investors together. Investments into
“platforms” have become a very common model for foreign investment into India. In the context of India
deals, a transaction involving a platform entity involves two or more investors pooling their investments
together into a special purpose vehicle (the “Platform”), and such Platform subsequently undertaking
investments into an Indian target or multiple Indian targets (“Target”). Structuring transactions through
Platforms have recently attracted the attention of multiple foreign investors, all thanks to the advantages that
this structure provides at the time of investment, flexibility for future investments and fund raise, etc.
In this paper, we talk about Platform entities and what deal team members should evaluate while structuring
transactions through these entities. Whether it’s platform heels or Platform deals, the “heights” achieved are
similar!
Please click
here to access our paper.
Regards,
Palomita Sharma,
Parina Muchhala,
Anurag Shah and
Nishchal Joshipura
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