Regarded for its ‘deepest bench of experts’, Linklaters is highly experienced across a litany of contentious and non-contentious issues, with its core streams of work encompassing capital markets, corporate, banking and disputes. The practice is jointly spearheaded by Amit Singh, who excels in advising issuers and underwriters on the full gamut of capital markets issues, transactional expert Philip Badge, who is especially knowledgeable on the leveraged financing and syndicated bank financing, and Andrew Battisson, whose arsenal of skills covers disputes arising from energy, natural resources and telecoms sectors, among others. Other names to note in the practice include Rahul Chatterji and Fiona Gray.
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Key clients
- BP Exploration (Alpha) Limited (“BP”)
- Devas Multimedia America, Inc.
Work highlights
- Represented BP Exploration (Alpha) Limited (“BP”) in a multi-billion dollar UNCITRAL arbitration seated in New Delhi against the Government of India (“GOI”). The matter has involved several Indian court proceedings including the GOI’s challenges of the Tribunal’s mandate and interim applications before the Delhi High Court and Supreme Court of India.
- Advised Standard Chartered Bank in connection with a financing transaction for two wholly owned subsidiaries of Vedanta Resources Limited, among other things, to fund a liability management programme for its next three maturing public USD bonds and to refinance other indebtedness of the Vedanta Resources group.