Mergers & Acquisitions, Joint Ventures, Cross Border Transactions and Foreign Investments

Crush & Varma Law Group PC advises both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations on various legal aspects of Mergers & Acquisitions and Joint Ventures, right from the due diligence stage to financing future expansions. The attorneys at the firm have extensive experience in Technology Acquisitions and Stock and Asset Acquisitions, and have successfully closed numerous purchases and sales of IT Companies, Private and Family Owned Businesses and Technology Joint Ventures. The business lawyers at Crush & Varma have also advised clients, both sellers and investors, on Private Equity transactions, Patent and Trademark Licensing Agreements and Investment Agreements.

The firm has experience, requisite knowledge and skill sets to advise clients on cross-border transactions, with specific emphasis on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Acquisitions, Technology Joint Ventures, Foreign Collaborations, Restructuring and Divestitures in India. With extensive country specific knowledge and attorneys licensed in India, the firm has the capabilities to advise on Indian laws, draft and negotiate transactional documents, and liaison with government and quasi-government bodies like the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB). The firm also has strong relationships with overseas counsels with relevant experience in international transactional legal practice.


A suggestive list of transactions handled by our attorneys includes:

  • Stock Acquisition of a $30 million dollar company in the testing, scanning and scoring business with revenues generated through contracts with State agencies and large publishers.
  • Foreign Direct Investment in Information Technology Companies in India.
  • Buy-out of Canadian joint venture partner of a US shipping company.
  • Counsel to the lending syndicate for a $27 million syndicated loan to an Indian company, and guaranteed by its US holding, with syndicate partners out of London and Hong Kong.
  • Complex estate administration with litigation and real estate in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
  • IRS tax complexities of foreign-based real estate for US employed foreign nationals.

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