Corporate Restructuring & Insolvency

Since its inception, the firm has been widely acknowledged as the leader in Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency practice in India.

Our highly qualified, innovative, and experienced team includes lawyers, chartered accountants, MBAs, and Engineers. The firm understands that there are situations when a distressed business can be rescued, rehabilitated, or reorganized to enhance value. Therefore, The firm works with clients, whether debtors in default or creditors, to identify and implement the best solution.

The firm's restructuring and insolvency team helps maximize recovery, protect business or investment, preserve critical relationships, and minimize write-offs. However, if a client's distressed situation is not resolved through a recovery platform, we further work to formulate strategies to guide the clients through the insolvency process.

The firm has handled matters across multiple industries, including media, entertainment, transportation, manufacturing, energy, and real estate. We have advised on the largest and most complex restructurings and pride ourselves on providing pioneering solutions and accurate commercial results.

To provide a seamless and integrated service, the firm works closely with specialists in related practice areas, including finance, corporate, real estate, employment, pension, tax, environment, regulatory, capital markets, and litigation. The firm also advises defaulting companies, lenders, and investors at all levels of the capital structure, as well as corporates/directors, defaulting companies, banks, insolvency officeholders/ trustees, and government institutions.

Our expertise covers legal and commercial advice on matters including:

- Contingency planning/ Pre Insolvency/ Distress Advisory;
- Negotiations with creditors for settlements and restructuring;
- Negotiations / Arrangements with creditors and members;
- Corporate Debt restructuring /Bi-lateral Debt restructuring with lenders;
- Techno-Economic Feasibility Studies;
- Distressed financing and re-schedules;
- Out-of-court restructurings and refinancing;
- Corporate Restructuring based on Mergers/ Demergers/ Hive off/Take over/Acquisitions;
- Financial Restructuring of Debts Reorganization through Strategic Debt Restructuring (SDR);
- Identifying strategic investors;
- Debt Acquisition through Asset Reconstruction Companies/ NBFCs and devising an efficient and viable restructuring model;
- Credit bidding;
- Distressed debt trading;
- Insolvency filing requirements in BIFR / High Court, etc.;
- Formal insolvency proceedings before the court;
- Debt Recovery Tribunal (DRT), including those under the Securitization and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 (SARFEASI);
- Enforcement of Security Interest;
- Financial Due Diligence;
- M&A in Distress;
- Portfolio Reviews;
- Liquidations/Winding up;
- Facility, Security, and Credit Support Reviews for Lenders and Borrower Groups.