Siddharth Urs

SIDDHARTH URS has experience advising issuer companies and underwriters on a range of securities offerings, including initial public offerings, follow-on offerings and block trades.

He is fluent in English, Kannada, and Hindi.

Siddharth’s recent experience includes advising:

Public Offerings

• Peak XV, Y Combinator and Ribbit Capital on the US$740 million initial public offering of equity shares of Billionbrains Garage Ventures Limited (Groww).
• ICICI Securities, Citigroup, J.P. Morgan and Kotak Mahindra Capital on the US$190 million initial public offering of equity shares of Orkla India Limited.
• Sattva Developers Private Limited on the US$545 million initial public offering of units of Knowledge Realty Trust, underwritten by Kotak Mahindra Capital, Axis Capital, BofA Securities, ICICI Securities, IIFL Capital, JM Financial, Morgan Stanley and SBI Capital.
• Northern Arc Capital Limited on its US$90 million initial public offering of equity shares, underwritten by ICICI Securities, Axis Capital and Citigroup.
• Axis Capital, BofA Securities, BNP Paribas and J.P. Morgan on the US$285 million rights offering of equity shares of PNB Housing Finance Limited.
• Axis Capital, Motilal Oswal and SBI Capital on the US$90 million initial public offering of equity shares of Tamilnad Mercantile Bank Limited.

Block Deals

• The broker on the US$150 million sale of equity shares of Central Depository Services (India) Limited by Standard Chartered Bank.
• The broker on the US$125 million sale of equity shares of IDFC First Bank Limited by affiliates of Warburg Pincus.
• The broker on the US$160 million sale of equity shares of One97 Communications Limited (Paytm) by an affiliate of Berkshire Hathaway.
• The broker on the US$465 million sale of equity shares of HDFC Asset Management Company Limited by Abrdn Investment Management Limited.
• The broker on the US$240 million sale of equity shares of HDFC Life Insurance by Abrdn (Mauritius Holdings) 2006 Limited.

The above matters were handled prior to joining Sidley.