YASH A. RANA

Yash Rana is a partner with Goodwin Procter LLP, and is chair of the firm’s Asia Practice and its Hong Kong office. He is a member of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity, Capital Markets, Technology, Life Sciences and Clean Tech & Energy Groups.

Mr. Rana is focused on advising corporate clients and private equity sponsors in connection with their investments and exits (including sales and public listings) in China, India and across Asia, as well as Asian clients in connection with their acquisitions in North America and Europe.  He has advised clients on matters involving Afghanistan, Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam.  Under his leadership, Goodwin Procter has been among the most active law firms for private equity transactions in China.

Mr. Rana’s practice includes representing clients in cross border mergers and acquisitions (including leveraged buyouts, carve-outs and management buyouts), early and late stage venture capital and growth equity investments, PIPEs, financings, joint ventures, restructurings and other corporate transactions. He has extensive knowledge of the technology-media-telecom sector and has represented clients in such diverse industries as business services, consumer, energy, financial services, healthcare and healthcare services, hotels, life sciences, manufacturing, media, medical devices, real estate, satellite communications and technology, including digital media, e-commerce, financial technology, hardware, healthcare technology, internet services, online advertising and online games. Mr. Rana has also represented major investment banks as underwriters in securities offerings and as financial advisors to companies engaged in mergers and acquisitions.

WORK FOR CLIENTS

Mr. Rana has more than 15 years of experience advising companies, sponsors and promoters in mergers and acquisitions, securities and financing transactions. Among other clients, he has represented Advent International, the Anschutz Group, Baring Private Equity Asia, Bessemer Venture Partners, DST Global, Ford Motor Company, General Catalyst Partners, Goldman Sachs, Hearst, Highland Capital Partners, John Hancock, J.P.Morgan, Lehman Brothers, Lincolnshire Management, MphasiS, Sequoia Capital, TA Associates, TCW, UBS, Verizon and Viacom (and its MTV Networks division).

MEDIA

Mr. Rana has participated as a speaker in a number of major conferences and seminars and has presented to private equity and venture capital executives on various current topics. He has been featured in several publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The Deal, American Lawyer, the Asian Venture Capital Journal, Asian Legal Business and the India Business Law Journal.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Mr. Rana joined Goodwin Procter’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:

• DST Global as leader of a consortium investing $1.6 billion into Alibaba Group
• DST Global in its $500 million investment into China’s 360buy.com
• DST Global in its increased investment in Alibaba Group as part of a series of transactions valued at approximately $7.6 billion, including Alibaba’s $7.1 billion share repurchase from Yahoo!
• Goldman Sachs in its $40 million investment in NOVA Specialty Surgery, an Indian short stay surgery company
• Goldman Sachs in its investment in Tora Trading Services, a pan Asia financial trading platform.
• GTE in its $53 billion merger with Bell Atlantic to form Verizon
• GTE in its acquisition of BBN Internetworking
• MphasiS, an HP company listed in India in its $200 million acquisition of Digital Risk and $100 million acquisition of Wyde Technologies
• Qwest Communications in its $48 billion acquisition of US West
• Qwest Communications in its $3 billion acquisition of LCI Communications
• Qwest Communications in the IPO of its European business, KPNQwest
• Qwest Communications in its $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
• Qwest Communications in PIPE investments by BellSouth (now AT&T) and Microsoft
• Qwest Communications in its $13 billion debt exchange offer
• Qwest Communications in its stock option exchange offer
• TA Associates in all of its Asian investments and certain others, including Billdesk, Dr. Lal’s Pathlabs, Idea Cellular, Micromax Informatics, Nintex, RadialPoint, SpeedCast, Tega Industries and Weather Investments
• 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
• A global private equity firm in a $200 million investment in a Chinese e-commerce company
• 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 $550 million bid for a U.S. company

BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS

Mr. Rana is admitted to practice in New York and as a solicitor in Hong Kong.

RECOGNITION

Under Mr. Rana’s leadership, Goodwin Procter’s Asia Practice has received several awards and recognitions, including:

• Mr. Rana was recognized in Chambers Global 2013 as an international expert in India and China matters
• Mr. Rana was named M&A Lawyer of the Year (2012) by Global M&A Network
• Large Deal of the Year for 2011 by PE Asia (DST-Silver Lake investment in Alibaba)
• Leading Law Firm in India for each year since 2008 by the India Business Law Journal (2008-2013)
• Law Firm of the Year – Private Equity and M&A – Hong Kong for 2012 by DealMakers Global Awards
• Deal of the Year for 2010 by India Business Law Journal (TA Associates investment in Micromax)
• Best PE Deal by Atlas M&A India Awards 2011 (for TA Associates’ investment in Tega Industries)
• One to Watch in 2012 by Asian Legal Business

Mr. Rana currently serves on the boards of several private equity backed companies in Hong Kong, India and Mauritius.  Mr. Rana also serves on the Board of Governors of the American Club Hong Kong and as a mentor for the Young India Fellowship.  He has previously served on the Board of Directors of the Qwest Foundation, the charitable arm of the company.

While attending Columbia Law School, Mr. Rana was an editor of the Columbia Business Law Review.