Corporate Restructuring & Insolvency

The Firm has deep knowledge and comprehensive experience in handling intricate legal issues pertaining to investment in distressed assets and corporate restructuring. Understanding intricate issues and the ability to identify risks and advise appropriately is a key skill set of the members of this practice area.  Pursuant to the onset of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (“Code”), the Firm has extensively advised several clients on issues arising under the Code. 

The Firm has been constantly recognised as one of the leading restructuring and insolvency law firms in India by several international and domestic publications. The Firm has advised investors (financial and strategic), funds, asset reconstruction companies, financial institutions, resolution professionals, as well as committees of creditors in some of the largest resolution processes, including some of the first 12 RBI mandated cases.

The Firm is able to efficiently combine all the elements involved in a complex restructuring, both contentious and non-contentious, advising clients on mergers, demergers, acquisitions, takeovers, capital reorganisations and such other transactions connected to corporate restructuring.

The team dedicated to this practice area is a specific amalgam of expertise from the banking & finance and the corporate practice and has both domestic and international experience in corporate restructuring and insolvency. The team closely works with the disputes practice on various contentious issues pertaining to the insolvency resolution process, including for filing applications for initiation of the resolution process on behalf of financial as well as operational creditors. With a keen sense of commercial knowledge, the Firm has the distinct advantage of being able to provide practicable legal solutions for optimising investments and recovery for its clients.

Key Partners

Krishnava Dutt

Managing Partner
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Aastha

Partner
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Adity Chaudhury

Partner
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Arka Majumdar

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Utkarsh Bandhu

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Mumbai

11, 1st Floor, Free Press House
215, Nariman Point
Mumbai – 400021

+91 22 67362222

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Okhla Industrial Area, Phase 3
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