Shashwat advises on the full spectrum of debt and equity capital markets transactions across India and Southeast Asia, including initial public offerings (IPOs), follow-on equity offerings, investment-grade and high-yield bond issuances, medium-term note (MTN) programs, liability management exercises and restructurings. He represents issuers, underwriters and other stakeholders across a variety of industries, such as technology, life sciences, financial services, manufacturing, real estate, infrastructure and aviation, and has also advised sovereigns and state-owned entities.
Shashwat has advised on several market-first transactions in the region, including India’s first IPO of a “house of brands” company, the first sustainability-linked bond by an Indonesian issuer, the first Indian real estate investment trust (REIT) institutional placement, the first Indian REIT IPO, Indonesia’s first sovereign green sukuk issuance, and the first Indian infrastructure investment trust (InvIT) IPO.