Sonali Kapoor joined Ropes & Gray in 2019. Sonali works within the firm’s finance group, with a particular focus on leveraged financings and high yield debt offerings. Prior to joining the firm, Sonali worked as a foreign lawyer in a leading U.S. law firm in New York, where she advised private equity sponsors and private equity backed portfolio companies in mergers & acquisitions and asset purchase transactions. Sonali has also worked as an attorney in India for approximately five years, where she advised on a wide range of corporate transactions, including cross border mergers and acquisitions, foreign investments and entry strategies in India. Sonali has received her LL.M. from Columbia University, New York.
Experience
- Advised Altice France, a subsidiary of Altice Europe, on the $3 billion-equivalent issuance of senior secured notes due 2029
- Advised Goldman Sachs as underwriters in relation to NextGen’s special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) IPO, with the net proceeds of the offering totaling US$343,000,000
- Advised Virgin Media on the $475 million-equivalent private placements taps of three tranches of existing senior secured notes, being the largest (by over two times) and the fastest private placement tap transaction that Goldman Sachs, who acted as placement agent, has ever seen in the market
- Advised VTR, a leading Chilean telecoms operator and a Liberty Latin America group company, on its US$1.15 billion senior and senior secured notes offering as part of a whole-structure recapitalization
- Advised Altice France, a subsidiary of Altice Europe, on the $900 million-equivalent issuance of senior secured notes due 2029
- Advised Virgin Media on the $675 million issuance of senior notes due 2030
- Advised Vodafone Ziggo group on the €100 million private placement of vendor financing notes due 2024
- Advised Vodafone Ziggo on the $1.5 billion-equivalent issuance of senior notes due 2030
- Advised Cable & Wireless Communications, a Liberty Latin America group company, on its US$2.135 billion revolving credit and term loan B facilities agreement
- Advised Altice International, a subsidiary of Altice Europe, on the $3.1 billion-equivalent issuance of senior secured notes due 2025 and senior secured notes due 2028
- Fidelity Growth Partners in its various Series A, Series B and Series C investments in portfolio companies in India, including in a listed non-banking financial company, a private company engaged in the business of running a mobile application for aggregating courier services, a private company engaged in the business of operating beverage outlets and providing catering services, and a private company engaged in the business of providing online educational services*
- B Capital Group in its various Series A investments in India, including in a private company engaged in the business of providing packaging solutions to manufacturers and retailers in India and a private company engaged in the business of providing payment solutions in India*
- Advised the promoters of Tavisca Solutions Private Limited (an online travel technology company in India) in the sale of 100% shareholding of the company to Affinion Group*
- Advised a listed Indian company engaged in the business of manufacturing two-wheeler automobiles re its joint ventures in Colombia and Bangladesh*
- Advised a listed Indian company engaged in the business of manufacturing tin products in its joint venture with a British company for manufacture, sale and distribution of plastic containers in India*
*Deals advised on prior to joining Ropes & Gray
Credentials
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