Arun Mohanty

In-house counsel at Nexus Venture Partners with expertise in drafting and negotiating investment documents for start-ups in diverse sectors such as e-commerce, SaaS, enterprise technology, and consumer internet. Provide legal and commercial support to start-ups within Nexus Venture Partners' portfolio on a daily basis. Offer expert advice to both domestic and foreign clients on venture capital and private equity investments, strategic collaborations, joint ventures, technology transfers, and general corporate matters. Successfully represented start-ups in initial funding rounds against renowned venture capital funds including Sequoia Capital, Hummingbird, Epiq Capital, Beenext, Orios Venture Partners, Waveform Ventures, 9Unicorns, and Omidyar Network. Extensive experience advising start-ups in e-commerce, FMCGs, insurance, insur-tech, health-tech, and fin-tech. Proficient in corporate restructuring and adept at developing effective strategies for disputes. Represented clients before the National Company Law Tribunal and National Company Law Appellate Tribunal for corporate and commercial disputes. Skilled in representing clients before various Indian authorities including the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India and Reserve Bank of India.

• Venture capital investments
• Mergers & acquisitions – primarily focused on advising start-ups in their initial funding rounds
• Corporate and regulatory advisory
• Advisory on corporate and commercial disputes
• Compliance aspects for funds and portfolio companies

• Assisted Nexus’ portfolio companies in IPO on Indian stock exchanges and securing successful exits for Nexus’ funds via open market sale.
• Assisted Nexus in various exits through third party sale.
• Advised an Indian unicorn engaged in hospital aggregator business on multiple fund-raising rounds involving marquee global investors.
• Advised a health-tech start-up on multiple fund-raising rounds involving marquee global investors.
• Advised an insurance start-up in preparing and filing its application with Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India for obtaining a general insurance license, structuring and setting up offshore entities to raise funds.
• Advised an Indian start-up and group of promoters on externalization and acquisition, consolidation of various entities in India.
• Advised a leading global venture capital and private equity investor in acquiring shares of an Indian company engaged in operating a technology platform connecting retail customers to lenders to avail borrowing on e-marketplaces including advisory on credit information companies.
• Advised a venture capital and private equity fund in subscribing to debentures of a company engaged in sports infrastructure, sports technologies, sports academies, and sports advisory.
• Advised a French multinational company in multiple ongoing disputes with their Indian joint venture partners and other group companies.
• Advised an Indian unicorn in setting up a joint venture with an A-list Indian celebrity for manufacturing and branding a special edition of cosmetic products.