Chief Guest 

Justice Shri Bellur Narayanaswamy Srikrishna

Justice Shri B.N. Srikrishna enrolled as an advocate of the Bombay High Court on 23.12.1962 and specialised in the field of Labour and Industrial Law. He was designated as a Senior Advocate of the Bombay High Court on 17.6.1987. He was counsel for a large number of employers both in the public and private sector. He appeared in a number of cases in the High Courts and the Supreme Court, which laid down fundamental principles of labour law.

He was a member of several professional Associations, while at the Bar. On being appointed as an Additional Judge of Bombay High Court from 30.7.1990, he resigned from offices of organisations he was associated with. He was made a permanent Judge from 3.10.1991. He was appointed the Chairperson of the Citizens’ Committee for monitoring Security Issues in Mumbai by the High Court of Bombay.

He is currently doing arbitral and consultative legal practice since retirement from the Supreme Court in May 2006. He was appointed by the Government of India as Chairperson of the Committee for Consultations on the situation in Andhra Pradesh to consider the demand for bifurcation of the State of Andhra Pradesh. He was the Chairperson of the Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission appointed by the Government of India , which gave its report in 2013.

After graduating with a degree in Science, he went on to obtain his LL.B and later LL.M from the Government Law College and the University of Mumbai, standing second in the University.

Summit Chairperson

Jagriti Bhattacharyya, Chief Counsel, Thomson Reuters South Asia

In her role as Chief Counsel for Thomson Reuters covering South Asia, Jagriti has legal oversight of the frontline business units as well as the Indian Enterprise Technology and Operation Centers. Jagriti’s responsibilities include providing support for commercial sales, M&A transactions, compliance requirements, legal/regulatory clearances and advising on strategic and operational matters. Prior to this, Jagriti was SVP, Citibank, South Asia working in the General Counsel’s office with purview of the Global Markets/Treasury, which included the Fixed Income, Derivatives, Commodities & Equities businesses, alongside having supervisory oversight of the Global Trade Services legal function. She has also advised the wholesale & private banking businesses, the e-commerce platforms & the trade finance desk of ICICI Bank in a previous role. Jagriti sits on the board of Thomson Reuters companies/investments and provides corporate governance advice. She is a keen supporter of CSR and D&I initiatives and chairs the Mumbai and Delhi Chapters of Women@TR.

Confirmed Speakers / Panelists

Delano Furtado, Partner,Corporate, Trilegal

Delano Furtado is Partner, Trilegal, and is part of the corporate practice group. His primary practice areas are mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate restructuring and disposals, private equity and venture capital.

Delano has worked with several domestic companies and multinational corporations in the context of both inbound and outbound acquisition transactions. Delano has also advised private equity funds and venture capital investors in connection with their financial investments in listed and closely held Indian companies.

He specialises in strategic M&A and has broad experience in complex, cross border M&A transactions involving clients from Europe, the U.S. and Latin America and has advised them on various Indian law issues impacting their entry and exit strategies.

Some of his clients include Alliance Boots, CLP India, Elkem AS, First Solar Group, Godrej Group, Heidelberg AG, Heineken N.V, Hochtief AG, Koç Group (Turkey’s largest industrial and services group), Larsen & Toubro, Mumbai International Airport, Tata Power Company and Thomson Reuters.

Nishant Parikh, Partner, Corporate, Restructuring and Banking & Finance, Trilegal

Nishant Parikh is Partner, Trilegal and serves as a board member of the firm. He also heads the corporate practice. He has extensive experience in the areas of restructuring, corporate mergers and acquisitions, and equity and mezzanine investments. 

Nishant has worked with several leading banks, funds, financial institutions and multinational corporations on a broad range of matters. He also has significant experience in M&A in the banking and financial services sector. 

He specialises in advising on resolution of distressed assets and has been highly effective in strategising, structuring and implementing exit strategies for some of the biggest funds and financial institutions. 

He has advised numerous multinational corporations and funds on the intricacies of foreign investment regulations in India that would impact their entry and exit strategies, regulatory issues and concerns that typically arise in Indian deals and negotiating with Indian promoters. 

Nishant’s private equity / hedge fund clients include The Blackstone Group, The D. E. Shaw Group, Farallon Capital Partners, Morgan Stanley Private Equity, Goldman Sachs, the State General Reserve Fund of Oman, Citadel Investment Group and Blackriver. He has advised these clients extensively in connection with their equity investments, exits, and restructuring of existing investments.

Himanshu Sinha, Partner, Direct Tax, Trilegal

Himanshu heads the Tax practice at Trilegal. He has advised clients on entire range of direct tax matters including international tax, transfer pricing and tax controversies. He has more than eighteen years of experience in direct taxes. He has represented large MNC clients before tax tribunals, the Authority for Advance Rulings and the higher courts with reported judgments to his credit. 

He has handled transactions involving complex tax issues, both cross-border and domestic. He has negotiated Advance Pricing Agreements with the Government on behalf of well-known global companies.

Prior to joining Trilegal, he worked with a Big Four accounting firm. Himanshu has also spent more than a decade in the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) where he worked as Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax, Deputy Director (Investigation), Deputy Director (International Tax) and Transfer Pricing Officer.

Himanshu’s clients include India Resources Limited, IFC, Aker Solutions, Goldman Sachs, SABIC, Sumitomo Corporation, TAQA, Balfour Beatty, Colfax, Thomson Reuters and Tribune Media Services.

Himanshu is an alumnus of Campus Law Centre, Delhi and Harvard Law School. He is a member of Bar Council of Delhi, India.

Mohit Shukla, Managing Director and Head of India - Legal, Barclays 

Mohit Shukla is a Managing Director, and Head of Legal & Compliance for India at Barclays.  In this role, he is responsible for the general oversight of legal and compliance services to all the Indian businesses and Barclays entities, and for general legal and compliance risk management in India. 

Prior to joining Barclays in 2010, he was with Citibank for nine years as Citi’s Country General Counsel for South Asia, covering India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal for all of Citi’s commercial businesses and its right-shoring and technology support arms. 

He has over 20 years of work experience with a diverse background, including the metals manufacturing, tobacco and hospitality industries, prior to financial services (first with the ANZ Group). 

Shujath Bin Ali, Senior Director - Legal and Risk Management and Company Secretary, India Ethics & Compliance Officer, PAREXEL International

Shujath Bin Ali serves PAREXEL International –India  as Senior Director- Legal and Risk Management & Company Secretary as well as India Ethics & Compliance Officer. He leads Corporate Legal, Governance,  Compliance and is provides strategic legal advice and operational legal support  for India Operations and is a member of PAREXEL India Leadership Team. He worked in diverse industries like Pharma, Information Technology, and Professional Services & Manufacturing with an exposure to multi cultured work environment. Before joining PAREXEL Shujath served as Senior Legal Counsel & Corporate Secretary for International Paper-India and was providing leadership oversight on Legal, Compliance & Corporate Governance matters.  

Prior to International Paper-India, Shujath served for 9 years as Associate Vice President-Legal & Corporate Secretary for Deloitte US-India offices and was heading the Legal & Corporate affairs function. He has overall 16 years’ experience in the areas of Governance, Compliance, Risk Management, Corporate & Commercial Laws, Employment laws & Litigation.

Shujath was awarded with one of "India's Finest In-House Counsels" recognition by Indian Corporate Counsel Association supported by Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Law & Justice, Government of India and also named as one of the “Top 100 General Counsels” in India by Legal 500.com.

Shujath Bin Ali is currently a Member of Secretarial Standard Board, He was former Chairman of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India-Hyderabad Chapter and also a Founder & Member of Executive Committee of Indian Corporate Counsel Association, Former Member of Corporate Law, Legal, IPR of Federation of Telangana & Andhra Pradesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry and actively participates in thought leadership initiatives. He regularly speaks at the national and international conferences and presents white papers for professional journals on topics relating to Governance, Risk & Compliance Management.

Badrinath Durvasula, Senior Vice President & Head of Legal, Adani Group

Mr. Badrinath Durvasula is the Senior Vice President & Head Legal for Adani Group, a $16 Billion conglomerate, with world-wide interests in Mining, Power generation and transmission, Private Ports, Trading in global commodities. His current role involves M&A, International Contracting & Contract Management, Litigation& Arbitration in multiple geographies.

Prior to joining Adani, he is a known face as the Legal Head of L&T, which is into Infrastructure management, Oil & Gas Projects, Defense Production, Power and Mining. He also had the experience of working with United Phosphorous, Reliance Industries, Asian Paints, Dr Reddy’s Labs and General Insurance Corporation of India. He carries with him over 28 years of rich experience in Mergers & Acquisitions, International Contracting, Contract Management, Strategy, Compliance, Arbitration and Litigation. 

He travelled extensively in Europe and SE Asia due to the M&A activity he is involved in, all over the world on Legal & Financial due diligence, firming up transaction documents, long term supply agreements and ancillary agreements. He also attended in a number of legal matters in Australia, USA, GCC Nations and the Supreme Court of India. His niche areas are: International Contracting, joint venture formation, production sharing contracts & Intellectual Property.

Mohit Kapoor, Head - Legal, RBL Bank

Mohit Kapoor is the Group Executive Vice President and Head - Legal at RBL Bank. He brings over 25 years of experience in the field of Law in India and internationally across the Asia-Pacific.

In his current role at RBL, he is managing the Legal function where he is responsible for providing legal oversight and support to the entire Bank including looking after strategic investments and complex legal issues, handling corporate and business transactions, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and key litigations.

Prior to joining RBL Bank, he was the Director - Legal and Compliance at Religare Finvest Limited.  In the past, Mohit has also handled senior leadership roles at Aon-Hewitt (APAC General Counsel), Max New York Life Insurance (Senior Vice President, Legal) and Citibank India (General Counsel–GCG).  He started his career in law with J.B. Dadachanji & Co. in New Delhi and thereafter as a Foreign Lawyer with the Law Offices of Nagashima, Ohno & Tsunematsu, a leading law firm based out of Tokyo, Japan. 

Mohit holds a Bachelor's degree in Commerce and a Law degree from Delhi University and was enrolled with the Bar Council of Delhi in 1992. He is also a qualified ‘Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales’ since 2000.

Atul Gopalkrishna Juvle, General Counsel, Compliance officer & Company Secretary- India & South Asia, Schindler India

Atul has over 30 years’ experience which includes working with a premier public sector Bank (Bank of India) , a NBFC & Merchant Banker (Shriyam Securities) , the Tata group- manufacturing & export House ( TATA International Limited) , US MNC- (OTIS Elevator)- manufacturing & service company, HDFC Life Insurance company, Godrej Agrovet Limited & currently employed with Schindler India Private Limited.

He was previously ranked in the Top 100 Powerful General Counsels List India 2016 published by Legal 500 UK and he is currently heading a Legal Team which ranked in Top 100 Legal Powerful Teams in India- 2017 list published by Legal 500 UK.

Shantanu Mukherjee, Legal Head, Asia Pacific and Japan, Lupin Limited

Shantanu is a dual-qualified corporate lawyer, admitted in New York and India. He was recently named one of India’s 'Forty under Forty Rising Stars'. He graduated from National Law School, Bangalore with a gold medal in Intellectual Property law; and holds an LL.M from Columbia Law School, New York.

He is admitted to the New York bar, and has worked with Linklaters in New York, White & Case in Singapore and Goodwin Procter in Hong Kong. He returned to India in 2014 as Cipla’s Global Legal Head for M&A. While at Cipla, he advised on transactions worth over USD 2.4 billion, including in the United States, China, South Asia, North Africa and the Middle East.

Shantanu is currently the Legal Head for APAC and Japan at Lupin Ltd., the 6th largest generic pharmaceutical company in the world by revenue, He also manages corporate legal affairs for Lupin in India.

Nivedita Rao, Partner (Head – Mergers & Acquisitions), Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas 

Nivedita Rao is a Partner and heads the M&A practice in Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas. She has been with the firm for seventeen years and is recognised as a leading practitioner in the field of mergers and acquisitions law. She also has extensive experience in PE investments, JVs as well as a range of corporate advisory matters. She is listed as an expert in the Who’s Who Legal Corporate: M&A, 2017 and 2018 and is also recognized as a “client recommended lawyer” for Corporate M&A and PE in RSG India Report 2015 and one of the “40 Under 45” leading lawyers in India in 2013 by Indian Lawyer 250 (IBA & ABA official research partners).

Shagun Kumar, Managing Director, TMF Services India Private Limited

Shagun Kumar is currently the Managing Director of TMF India, managing seven TMF Group offices across the country. He is a Chartered Accountant and a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt. Shagun has more than 18 years of experience in multiple verticals including IT/ITeS, infrastructure, real estate, hospitality, knowledge management and media. He also has diverse regional and cultural experiences, having spent time in emerging regions, such as the Middle East and South-East Asia.

Shagun's passion lies in innovation, operational excellence, identifying and building capable leaders. He believes in leveraging the global reach of our economies and using local knowledge to deliver corporate priorities. Having been a CFO, he also believes in the immense potential of finance teams for driving businesses forward and enabling sustainable growth.\

Prior to joining TMF Group, Shagun spent time in consulting with Arthur Andersen and Grant Thornton and in the industry with General Electric and Microsoft.  

Gopi Krishnan, General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer, WNS

Gopi is the Group General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer for WNS.  He is responsible for advising the Board of Directors and senior management on all legal matters for the company, including securities law compliance, customer & vendor contracting, dispute resolution, Intellectual Property, employment law and other legal issues.

Prior to joining WNS in July 2017, Gopi was the Acting General Counsel and Deputy General Counsel for Infosys, managing a team of 75 lawyers globally.  He joined Infosys in 2014.  Previous to Infosys, Gopi was with IBM.  At IBM, he covered various legal roles, including Director & Regional Counsel for India/South Asia.  His last role at IBM was on assignment to IBM’s headquarters in Armonk, NY, where he was the Executive Assistant to the Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Legal & Regulatory Affairs.  He also worked in IBM’s ASEAN/SA headquarters in Singapore as the Legal Competency Leader for IBM’s Business Consulting Services in ASEAN/South Asia.  

Gopi started his career at ICICI Limited.  He is a graduate of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore.

Vinod Joseph, General Counsel, Legal & Compliance, IDFC Alternatives

Vinod Joseph has over eighteen years’ experience in advising on corporate, securities, banking, technology and other commercial laws. As the general counsel at IDFC Alternatives, Vinod overseas and manages a team of lawyers who render legal and compliance support to infrastructure, private equity and realty funds. Protection of personal data relating to investors is one of Vinod’s key responsibilities. 

Vinod holds a BA. LL.B (Hons.) from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, an LL.M from the London School of Economics and a Diploma in Investment Compliance from the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment, UK.

Ayan Chowdhury, Director Legal, Sony Pictures Entertainment, India

Ayan Roy Chowdhury is presently working as Director Legal, Sony Pictures Entertainment and had the previous experience as General Counsel, Balaji Telefilms Ltd., Associate Vice President Legal, Sony Television, Senior Specialist-Accenture and stints with Reliance Entertainment and National Securities Depository. He was associated with Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, Queen Mary as a Herchel Smith research scholar and as a visiting scholar with Max Planck Institute, Germany and has a masters’ degree from Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Munich and LL.B from Calcutta University. He has been in legal practice in Calcutta High Court before joining corporate. His area of interest is primarily IPR and more specifically media, entertainment and related legal issues. 

Kanaiya Thakker, Head - Legal, Ambuja Cements (part of LafargeHolcim)

Kanaiya Thakker is the general counsel for Ambuja Cements, a Group Company of LafargeHolcim, a French-Swiss MNC and builds, leads, and maintains a strong legal & compliance team for Ambuja Cements. Mr. Thakker has been with Ambuja, one of the country’s the biggest manufacturers of cement and cementitious products, since early 2013.

Mr. Thakker is both a qualified lawyer and a company secretary and his career began in [ ]. Mr. Thakker has previously worked as a general counsel with the Indian Conglomerates like Asian Paints, Aditya Birla Group and also with a few US and German MNCs as well. He has been handling mega merger projects, both domestic and cross border, various infrastructure and energy projects and has also been responsible in introducing and implementing top class legal and compliance processes at his workplace. Mr. Thakker currently also handles large CCI, environmental and mining related matters for Ambuja Cements.

Rakesh Sony, Global Head - Strategy and Mergers & Acquisitions, Tata Global Beverages Ltd

Rakesh is Global Head- Strategy and M&A at TGB, responsible for development and deployment of strategies for the Organization, delivery of new businesses/acquisitions/ alliances to drive the sustainable, profitable growth agenda of our Company.

Rakesh joined Tata Global Beverages in 2017 and is based out of Mumbai. Rakesh with over 20 years of experience, has held key leadership roles in the Financial Services industry such as the Director & India head of Proterra Investment Partners and Partner at Motilal Oswal PE Fund. He has led over a dozen successful investments in the food and consumer space in India and has assisted Companies in their strategic transformation process. He is a Chartered Accountant and a graduate from St Xavier’s College, Kolkata.

Srishti Ojha, Founding Partner, Verist Law

Parveen Nagree - Mahtani, Head-Legal, Tata Housing

Parveen graduated with an LLB from the Government Law College, Mumbai where she won the MC Chagla Gold Medal from the Mumbai University for securing the highest marks across law colleges in Mumbai. Parveen began her career at Nishith Desai Associates where she worked in their Mumbai and Palo Alto, USA offices. She moved on to join IL&FS Trust Co Ltd. and subsequently Lodha Developers Pvt Ltd where as Vice-President Legal she spearheaded the largest private investment into London’s prime residential marke as well as one of India’s largest FDI deals in real estate. She later joined the Wadia Group of Companies where she headed their litigation and non-ligation practice. She was featured by the Indian Corporate Counsel Association in their book titled “India’s Finest In-House Counsels” published in 2016. She was also featured in the Economic Times in their feature “Young Leaders –Women who go above and beyond to distinguish themselves profesionally deserve accolades”. She has writen extensively on various aspects of commercial law including capital markets, tax and insurance laws.

Christopher Krishnamoorthy, Head M&A & Senior General Manager - Group Legal, Mahindra & Mahindra

Christopher Krishnamoorthy heads the Corporate/M&A team within the Group Legal Department, Mahindra & Mahindra Limited (M&M), leading legal support for the mergers & acquisitions and corporate functions across M&M and its group companies. 

Christopher has over 20 years’ experience as a corporate lawyer in India, the UK and Russia. He is qualified as an advocate in India and also as a solicitor in England & Wales.  

His experience includes advising in relation to M&A (particularly cross-border M&A), private equity, venture capital and joint venture transactions across various jurisdictions, investment structuring, commercial contracts, infrastructure projects as well as on a wide range of legal and regulatory issues, particularly in the areas of company law, securities law and exchange control regulations.

Christopher has been associated with M&M as Senior General Manager – Group Legal (Head – M&A and Corporate Advisory), since April 2015.  Prior to joining M&M, he worked in private practice with several leading Indian and international law firms: Trilegal, White & Case, Jones Day, Majmudar & Partners and Kochhar & Co.  

Suraj Singh, Vice President & Head - Legal, Wells Fargo

Suraj heads the Legal team at EGS India and Philippines. He has 18 years of global experience as a lawyer-manager and a wide experience of leading in-house team of lawyers in several multi-national companies in India. Before joining Wells Fargo, he was the Head of Legal & Compliance department at Sandoz India, the generic arm of Novartis.

Suraj has studied in some of the best Universities & Colleges of India, viz., Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Loyola College, Chennai. He started his career with a reputed law firm, Fox Mandal before donning in-house roles in some of the largest MNCs in the world. He was named as one of the ‘India’s Finest In-House Counsels’ by Indian Corporate Counsel Association and his legal team was listed as one of the best legal teams in India by the prestigious ‘Legal500’ recently. He is also a regular speaker at various national and international forums and his interview was published recently in Witness magazine.

Rashmi Mishra, DGM - Group General Counsel, ACG Worldwide

Rashmi is a law graduate from Delhi University and a qualified Company Secretary . She has done her MBA in HR and PG diploma in Intellectual Property. She has overall experience of 15+ years in legal, secretarial, IP and Compliance and previously worked with organisations like MCX, Kotak Mahindra, Glenmark etc.

Rashmi is currently engaged with ACG Worldwide, which is a manufacturing company and has been with the company for the last 6 years.  Her primary role is to lead and oversee the legal, IP and compliance function for ACG Group which has a footprint across the world. Has global responsibility for legal advice in delivering strategic oversight. Also, she is also involved in monitoring and analysing a broad range of laws and regulations that govern the company and maintain compliance by developing procedures based on applicable laws.

Pranav Mehra, Principal Legal Counsel, Snapdeal 

Pranav is the Principal Legal Counsel at Snapdeal.com (Indian e-commerce company based in New Delhi, funded by Softbank, eBay, Alibaba, Foxconn & Ratan Tata). Pranav is a law graduate of 2009 batch from Amity Law School. 

Pranav has worked in almost all branches of the legal profession, starting from Clifford Chance’s Business Services to leading Anand and Anand’s IP & Competition Practice; from assisting the Competition Appellate Tribunal to successfully defending clients before the CCI; from being an independent practitioner to an in-house counsel with Snapdeal; Pranav has seen all sides of the legal setup in various capacities. 

His main areas of work include legal, regulatory and compliance for the e-commerce giant. He also works along with various chambers of commerce and industry to provide them guidance on all things affecting e-commerce industry in India, including public policy. As the principal legal counsel, he handles new challenges ranging from application of food safety laws to legal metrology, advertising to contracts, website policies to cyber-crime, drugs & cosmetics law to IT Act, plastic waste management to wildlife protection. He also advises the business on implication of new ideas, strategies and compliance. 

Nishant Joshi, Partner, Dispute Resolution, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co 

Mr. Nishant Joshi is a Partner of Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co. and has been with Firm for 16 years. Overall he has an experience of about 21 years in the legal profession and has been an enrolled lawyer with Bar Council of Delhi since the last 19 years.

Mr. Joshi’s area of proficiency is an interesting mix of Dispute Resolution and General Corporate practice. Special mention must also be made of his keen area of interest and specialization - White Collar crimes and criminal trials. Mr. Joshi has been ranked and named in ‘The Legal500’ as “a safe pair of hands to handle sensitive white-collar crime matters” at our firm which is listed as a Tier I firm for White Collar crime. He is also individually listed in the Chambers & Partners, 2018 as a Recognized Practitioner in White-Collar Crime besides the Firm being recognized as a Tier I firm in the said practice area.

Mr. Joshi has extensively appeared in various Courts & Tribunals in India with regard to matters relating to white collar crimes such as frauds, cheating, misappropriation, breach of trust, money laundering, data theft, cyber-crimes, defamation and other economic offences. He has conducted trials of complex criminal cases both as counsel for the complainant/assisting Prosecution and counsel for accused. Additionally he has also handled cases under Negotiable Instruments act, Prevention of Money Laundering act, IT Act etc. and has also conducted internal investigations for various clients.

Mr. Joshi has also been the face of the Firm in matters involving interacting with officials in the Government and Government relations specifically with the Police, CBI, Interpol, FRRO, SFIO, Civic agencies and various Ministries both at State and Central level. He has worked along with Investigation teams of the Police in numerous criminal trials and assisted the Prosecution besides acting for defence counsel for various clients.

Anoop Rawat, Partner, Projects & Project Finance, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co.,

Mr. Anoop Rawat is a Partner with the Firm with specialization in Projects, Projects Finance, Insolvency & Bankruptcy and Debt structuring. His experience includes advising on matters pertaining to infrastructure, on-shore and off-shore debt, deep restructuring, mining, power projects, mergers and amalgamation. 

Mr. Rawat has extensive experience in advising on financing transactions both onshore as well as offshore. Some of his prominent deals include advising State Bank of India in relation to its Rs.4000 Crore rupee term loan to Cairn India Limited for financing of the Rajasthan block, advising consortium of lenders (led by Rural Electrification Corporation) in relation to the 5800 Crore (approx) financing to the thermal power plant of NCC Power Projects Limited in Andhra Pradesh, advising Axis bank on flexible structuring of the ECB loan to Bhushan Steel Limited, advising consortium of lenders (led by SBI) on the implementation of the corrective action plan for Bhushan Steel Limited, advising consortium of lenders (led by SBI) on the implementation of the asset monetization plan for Jindal Stainless Limited, advising consortium of lenders (led by SBOP) on the implementation of the strategic debt restructuring of Monnet Ispat. He also advised Exim Bank on a proposed USD 1.6 billion loan to a power company in Bangladesh. He is currently advising Asian Development Bank on the financing of a portfolio of 7 renewable energy project being developed by Renew group (aggregating to approximately 709 MW (both, wind and solar)).

Mr. Rawat is currently involved in advising various banks and financial institutions and insolvency professionals for matters pertaining to the corporate insolvency resolution process of various borrowing entities. Some of these include Bhushan Steel Limited, Amtek Auto Limited, Su-Kam Power Systems Limited, Aircel group companies and Lanco Infratech Limited.  

Mr. Rawat’s experience in the power sector includes advising Power Finance Corporation on the Ultra Mega Power Project in Tamil Nadu and Orissa, advising NTPC Limited on their JV thermal power project in Bangladesh (1326 MW) and Sri Lanka (500 MW), advising SJVN Limited on their hydro power project in Nepal (900 MW) and in Bhutan (800 MW). Specifically, in the renewable energy sector, Anoop has extensive experience in advising clients on all aspects of renewable power projects including development, construction and financing of renewable power projects. Some of his prominent clients include Moser Baer, Renew group, Gamesa, Sterling & Wilson, Suzlon Group and Fotowatio Renewable Ventures.

Mr. Rawat is known for his in-depth knowledge of the subject, his abilities to provide solutions to clients and has been representing the Firm in various spheres ranging from debt structuring to infrastructure projects to insolvency and bankruptcy for over a decade. 

Manish Kumar, Chief Manager, Legal, Samsung India Electronics India Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. Manish Kumar is currently Chief Manager, Legal at Samsung India Electronics Pvt. Ltd.. He works in the litigation department at the Company. He has rich experience of 15 years and has previously worked at Viom Networks Ltd., Hyundai Motors India Ltd. and Bharti Airtel Ltd. in various capacity in legal departments. Mr. Kumar holds degree in law from Delhi University.

Damini Marwah, General Counsel, Axis Bank Limited

Damini is the General Counsel at Axis Bank Limited. Damini has close to 20 years of experience and has worked extensively in project finance, corporate finance, structured finance and private equity. Damini also specializes in restructuring and turnaround of non-performing assets and brings a strong understanding of Indian regulatory and strategic matters.