Professional Experience
Mr. Rana joined Goodwin’s New York office in 2005, and relocated to Hong Kong in 2008 to start the firm’s first office outside the United States. Before joining the firm, Mr. Rana oversaw mergers and acquisitions and securities transactions for Qwest Communications International Inc. and was a transactional lawyer at O’Melveny & Myers LLP in New York.
Mr. Rana’s experience includes representation of:
- Aleph Group in an investment from Tiger Global
- 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
- DST Global as leader of a consortium investing US$1.6 billion into Alibaba Group
- DST Global and affiliates in their investments in Alibaba, Dada Nexus, Didi Chuxing, Fenqile, Flipkart, GO-JEK, JD.com, KingSoft, Meituan, Momo, Olacabs and 17zuoye
- Falcon Edge Capital in its investments in Newshunt, Olacabs, Quikr, Red Star Maccaline and Snapdeal
- 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
- Goldman Sachs in its investments into Antuit (Singapore), Nova Healthcare (India) and Tora Trading (Hong Kong)
- Hillhouse Capital in its investments in Airbnb, CarDekho, Ctrip, Meituan and PaperBoat Beverages
- MphasiS in its US$200 million acquisition of Digital Risk and US$100 million acquisition of Wyde Technologies
- PAG Asia in its investments in Gridsum Technology and Swarna Pragati
- Quilvest in over 30 fund investments
- RRE Ventures in its investment in SmartPay (China)
- Route 66 Ventures in its investments in 8 Securities, AMP and CompareAsia Group
- TA Associates in all of its Asian investments and certain others, including ACT, Billdesk, Dr. Lal’s Pathlabs, Forgame, Fractal Analytics, Idea Cellular, Micromax Informatics, Nintex, RadialPoint, RateGain, SpeedCast, Tega Industries, Weather Investments and YeePay
- VY Capital in its investments in Koudai, Student.com and Zomato
- Warburg Pincus in its sale of QuEST Global Services to Bain Capital
- WisdomTree Investments in corporate matters
- Xiaomi in corporate matters
- A global private equity firm in a convertible bond investments in Qunar and Uber
- A global private equity firm in its attempted acquisition of a stake in two Chinese video streaming sites
- A publicly listed Indian company in a US$550 million bid for a U.S. company
Before joining Goodwin, Mr. Rana represented:
- GTE in several transactions, including its US$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, its US$48 billion acquisition of US West, its US$3 billion acquisition of LCI Communications, the IPO of its European business, KPNQwest, in its US$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 its US$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
