Indhu Birdy
Biography
Indhu is a senior associate in Baker McKenzie's London office. Indhu is a member of both the Consumer Goods & Retail and M&A Healthcare Groups for London and Globally.
Practice Focus
Indhu is a senior associate in Baker McKenzie's Corporate M&A practice in London. Indhu has a broad range of experience in advising private and public companies, and acting as the day-to-day primary contact for clients on both domestic and cross border mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures, with a specific focus on CGR and Healthcare.
Representative Legal Matters
- Advising Novonesis on its EUR 1.5 billion acquisition of dsm-firmenich’s share of the Feed Enzyme Alliance after 25 years of successful collaboration.
- Advising Unilever Plc on acquisitions and disposals (Home Care and Beauty & Wellbeing business groups).
- Advising r Mondelēz International on (i) the acquisition of a majority interest in Grenade, a UK-based nutrition group; and (ii) its partnership with Merlin Entertainments in respect of Cadbury World.
- Advising Embrace Group on its USD 765 million of Easybrain Limited, a leading mobile games developer.
- Advising Coats Group plc on the acquisition of Texon, a leading manufacturer of high-performance sustainable materials for footwear, accessories and functional apparel, from Navis Capital Partners for USD 237 million.
- Advising Coats Group plc on the acquisition of Rhenoflex group, a leading global producer of reinforcement solutions for the footwear and accessories industries.
- Advising FedEx on (i) its GBP 92 million acquisition of P2P Mailing Limited, (ii) the disposal by a subsidiary of the TNT records management business in the UK to Restore plc and (iii) several internal restructurings.
- Advising Novo Nordisk on its acquisition of a UK based biotechnology firm, Ziylo Ltd, with a potential value of USD 800 million.
- Advising Platinum Equity on the global implementation of its USD 2 billion acquisition of Johnson & Johnson’s LifeScan blood glucose monitoring business.
- Advising Takeda Pharmaceutical on the divestment of its Austrian manufacturing site to GTCR’s portco Corza Medical.
- Advising Takeda Pharmaceutical on the post-acquisition integration following its USD 62 billion acquisition of Shire Plc in 2019.
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Law Society of England and Wales - Member
Admissions
- England & Wales~United Kingdom (2014)
Education
- College of Law at London (L.P.C.) (2009)
- University of Reading (B.A. Law, Honors) (2008)
Languages
- English
- Punjabi
Baker & McKenzie LLP, an English partnership, is a member of Baker & McKenzie International, a Swiss Verein.