Trishala Naidu
Biography
Overview
Trishala Naidu is an associate in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Practice, based in Singapore.
Trishala's experience includes advising publicly listed companies, privately-held corporates and private equity firms across a broad spectrum of industries on domestic and cross-border share and business transfers, joint ventures, general corporate advisory work, schemes of transfer of insurance business and corporate restructuring.
Experience
Macquarie Asset Management on its investment into the French car battery group Verkor.
Eurazeo on its £1.75 billion acquisition of BMS.
Ara Partners on its acquisition of Petainer, a UK-based, global producer of sustainability-focused beverage packaging solutions.
Hiro Capital on its investment in Incredibuild, a developer of software acceleration technology, as lead investor on a US$35 million Series B funding round.
bolttech / Pacific Century Group on its acquisition of a leading insurance solutions operator in Asia-Pacific.
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company on the global divestment of certain of its non-core products in Asia-Pacific.
Schneider Electric, a global player in energy management and automation, on its US$2.1 billion (₹14,000 crore) acquisition of Larsen & Toubro Electrical & Automation, and on the subsequent consortium arrangements between Schneider Electric and Temasek Holdings Private Ltd. The transaction was named "Cross-Border M&A Deal of the Year (over US$1 billion)" by the M&A Advisor in 2020.
Brookfield on multiple transactions, including on:
- its joint venture with Digital Realty focused on the development, ownership and operation of institutional quality data centers in India, with a subsequent 1/3 stake investment by Reliance Industries;
- the disposal of nine operating solar plants in Thailand to Global Power Synergy Public Company (GPSC), the power generation arm of Thailand's PTT Group; and
- the disposal of its solar energy business in Malaysia.
ESR on multiple transactions, including on:
- the formation of a perpetual core fund and joint venture among ESR, AXA Investment Managers - Real Assets (AXA IM), and a major sovereign wealth fund in connection with the acquisition of six logistics properties in Japan for US$1 billion; and
- the capital raising and financing for Sachiura, a billion-dollar distribution center and one of the largest master-planned logistics parks in Japan.
LOLC Holdings, a part of an investor consortium, on the sale of its shareholding in PRASAC MicroFinance Institution Limited (PRASAC) to Kookmin Bank Co. Ltd, the largest ever Cambodian M&A deal by value and one of the largest ever overseas investments by a Korean bank. The transaction won "Best of the Frontier Markets" award at the FinanceAsia Awards 2020.
