Anish Mohanty is a Private Equity associate in London who specialises in advising private equity and other financial investors on cross-border acquisitions and disposals (including complex carve-outs and public-to-private transactions), minority investments and joint ventures.
In 2024, Anish was on a year-long secondment to Advent, as European legal counsel, where he advised on a number of acquisitions, disposals and other general corporate matters. Prior to joining Weil, Anish advised Blackstone, Temasek Holdings and the Reliance group on the acquisitions and disposals of several Indian assets. Anish has qualified in England and Wales, New York and India.
Representative experience includes advising:
- Advent (including whilst on secondment):
- on the $2.35B sale of Encora to India-listed Coforge
- and its portfolio company Rubix on the carve-out acquisition of ERIKS UK & Ireland
- on a minority investment by a Neuberger Berman-led consortium in its portfolio company, Rubix
- on the €3.9B sale of Aareon to TPG and CDPQ and Advent’s reinvestment into Aareon alongside them
- on the sale of EVRi to Apollo
- on the disposals of Ultra’s maritime and energy business units to ESCO Technologies and Curtiss Wright, respectively
- on the take private of Oslo-listed Volue alongside Arendals Fossekompani and Generation Investment Management
- on the acquisition of SYSPRO
- on the acquisition of myPOS
- Bain Capital and SilverTree Equity on the sale of XTEL to Oakley Capital
- Brookfield on a $1B residential build-to-sell joint venture in the Middle East with Lunate Capital
- Montagu on the sale of Funeral Partners to Sereni
- Providence Equity on the £524M take private of Hyve Group alongside Searchlight Capital
- The Visualize Group on the acquisition of eCOGRA from Hanover Investors
- Lone Star Funds and Sun European Partners on several contemplated acquisitions and disposals