USA Finance Monthly Deal Maker Awards 2024. M&A TRANSACTIONS ADVISER OF THE YEAR Partner - Norton Rose Fulbright RAJIV KHANNA Rajiv Khanna focuses on domestic, cross-border and multijurisdictional mergers and acquisitions transactions. His clients are in the technology, EVs, life sciences, pharmaceutical and other industries. Rajiv is the architect of many seminal pathbreaking transactions, including complex SPAC business combinations; first ADR linked share subscription facility for an Indian company; the first proposed reverse merger of an Indian privately held corporation with a NASDAQ- listed, publicly traded US company; the first merger of a US private company with a publicly traded Indian company; the first merger of a NYSE-listed Indian company with a NASDAQ-listed US company; and the first triple-dip aircraft financing, which allowed full depreciation to be claimed in the US, Japan and India for the same aircraft. Rajiv uses not only his legal acumen, but also his business education to understand his clients’ needs and their business functions and objectives. He takes a practical and solutions-oriented approach to each matter as he works through legal issues, always keeping his client’s ultimate business goals in mind. Above all, Rajiv makes impossible deals happen in a difficult market! 18
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