anjana Ramburuth

Senior Associate

 

profile

Anjana Ramburuth is a senior associate and a member of the Corporate & Commercial and Corporate Finance departments.

She advises on a range of corporate, commercial and corporate finance transactions and her practice includes advising on banking and structured finance transactions, credit restructuring, derivatives transactions and securities offerings, public and private M&A, litigation and insolvency, public and private equity, company, fund and trust formation, and employment law matters.

Prior to joining Appleby in April 2007, Anjana was a practising barrister in general private practice with experience in all areas of Mauritian law, including civil, criminal, commercial, corporate, constitutional, matrimonial, employment, insurance and land law, including experience in judicial review cases, disciplinary proceedings and domestic and international commercial arbitration.

Anjana has previously worked on several transactions for banks and other financial institutions, borrowers and  private equity clients, including Deutsche Bank AG, Credit Suisse, ICICI Bank Limited, Standard Bank Group, Citigroup, JP Morgan, Barclays Wealth International, Morgan Stanley, HSBC Group, Royal Bank of Scotland, UBS AG, BNP Paribas, Axis Bank Limited, Coöperatieve Centrale Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank B.A, Standard Chartered Bank, Bevan Howard, Avago Technologies, VTB Capital, Commscope, Inc., Kerzner International Group, Heritage Oil Plc, the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund, BP Global and Mitsubishi, in connection with multi-million-dollar secured and unsecured transactions and/or other advisory or restructuring transactions.

Anjana served as the Chairperson of the Cooperative Development Advisory Board under the aegis of the Ministry of Industry, Small and Medium Enterprises, Commerce and Cooperatives of Mauritius for the period 2006 to 2008. She is a member of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple and the Mauritius Bar Association.

She speaks fluent English and French.

expertise

Examples of recent transactions on which Anjana has worked include advising:

  • ICICI Bank UK Plc on the Mauritius legal aspects of a US$165 million financing to Leila Lands for the acquisition of Danone Asia's stake in Indian biscuit maker Britannia Brands


  • HSBC on the Mauritius legal aspects of a $ 290 million facility to Godrej Consumer Products Ltd for the acquisition of Indonesia-based PT. Megasari Makmur Group and its distribution company in Indonesia, through a Mauritian SPV
  • Credit Suisse AG, Singapore Branch on the Mauritius legal aspects of a US$ 102,830,000 million facility to Delgrada Limited (as part of the Essel Group owned by Mr. Soubhash Chandra, with diverse business interests in India spanning media programming, broadcast & distribution, specialty packaging, entertainment, telecom and trading, including ownership of the listed Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited) for the refinancing of a loan to one of the group companies
  • Kerzner International Limited in connection with a US$30,478,000 loan facility to the One&Only Le Saint Géran Ltd (a Mauritius incorporated Kerzner entity) for the refinancing of existing bridge loans and existing facilities granted to it by Nedbank in connection with its day to day
  •  PT Recapital Advisors on the Seychelles legal aspects of a US$300 million credit facility as part of PT Recapital Advisors’ US$1.48 billion acquisition of 90% interest in PT Berau Coal, Indonesia’s fifth biggest coal company
  • Russia's VTB Capital on its $25 million financing of the TAS Group through a Seychelles SPV

EDUCATION

  • London School of Economics and Political Sciences (England)
  • BPP Law School (London, England)