Professional Experience
Mr. Rana’s experience includes representation of:
- Hillhouse Capital and affiliates in more than 100 matters, including investments in China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Singapore and the US. Certain publicly disclosed matters include Airbnb, Belle, Bilibili, CarDekho, Ctrip, Huya, Meituan, Peet’s Coffee, Qunar, TAL Education and Trumid
- DST Global and affiliates in more than 50 matters, including all of their investments and exits in Asia.Certain publicly disclosed matters include Alibaba, Didi, Flipkart, GO-JEK, JD.com, Meituan, Momo, Olacabs and 17zuoye
- Falcon Edge Capital and affiliates in more than 50 matters, including investments in Olacabs, Quikr, Bounce, Stanza Living, OfBusiness, JM Financial Credit Solutions and RBL Bank
- Goldman Sachs in its investments into Antuit, Nova Healthcare and Tora Trading
- PAG in its investments in Gridsum Technology, Sun Wise and Swarna Pragati
- TA Associates in all of its Asian investments and certain others, including ACT, Billdesk, Dr. Lal’s Pathlabs, Forgame, Fractal Analytics, Idea Cellular, Micromax, Nintex, RateGain, Speedcast, Tega Industries, W for Women, Weather Investments and YeePay
- Tybourne Capital in the formation of Tybourne Special Opportunities Fund and several investments
- VY Capital in the formation of its evergreen investment fund and several of its investments, including Koudai, Student.com and Zomato
- Warburg Pincus in its sale of QuEST Global Services to Bain Capital
- Multiple private equity firms in their investments in Ant Financial and Bytedance, two of the largest investments in Asia
- Speedcast in several M&A transactions, including its acquisitions of Harris CapRock for $700 million, Globecomm for $135 million, and UltiSat for $100 million
- MphasiS in its $200 million acquisition of Digital Risk and $100 million acquisition of Wyde Technologies
- Quilvest in over 30 fund investments
- DST Global and Silver Lake as investors in the Alibaba Group IPO
- DST, Hillhouse Capital and Sequoia Capital as investors in the JD.com IPO
- Forest City in its seminal joint venture deal with Shanghai-based Greenland Group to develop Atlantic Yards, a $5 billion 22-acre real estate project in New York
- Several private equity firms in convertible bond investments in Nio, Ctrip, Qunar, Sea Group and Uber
In addition, Mr. Rana has represented investors in companies including Baidu, ByteDance, Cred, Guazi.com, Paperboat, Rebel Foods, ShareChat, Swiggy and Udaan
Before joining Goodwin, Mr. Rana represented:
- GTE in several transactions, including its $53 billion merger with Bell Atlantic to form Verizon
- Qwest Communications, first as external counsel and then as lead in-house transactional counsel, in several significant transactions, including, the $48 billion acquisition of US West, the $3 billion acquisition of LCI Communications, the IPO of its European business, KPNQwest, the $7 billion sale of the Dex Media directories business to The Carlyle Group and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe in one of the largest leveraged buyouts at the time, PIPE investments into Qwest by BellSouth (now AT&T) and Microsoft, and the $13 billion debt exchange offer
- TCW in forming the TCW/ICICI India Private Equity Fund, among the earliest offshore funds domiciled in Mauritius to invest in Indian companies, formed in 1997
