Co-founder Bahram Vakil leads the team at AZB & Partners, which represents a broad range of stakeholders and has in-depth experience handling complex refinancings, foreign investments into stressed assets, and acquisitions of distressed companies. Senior figure Nilang Desai regularly advises banks, IBC resolution applicants, and creditor committees. Senior associate Saloni Thakkar has worked on some of the firm’s most prominent cases and remains an increasingly active team member. Avinash Subramanian in the Mumbai office and Anindita Roy Chowdhury in the Delhi office are also recommended.
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Key clients
- Reserve Bank of India
- Deloitte India Insolvency Professionals LLP and Mr. Nageswara Rao Y (RBI nominated Administrator of Reliance Capital Limited)
- Ernst & Young and Mr. Rajneesh Sharma (RBI nominated Administrator in the insolvencies of SREI Infrastructure Finance Limited and SREI Equipment Finance Limited)
- Varde Partners
- Grant Thornton and Mr. Ashish Chhawchharia (erstwhile RP of Jet Airways (India) / Monitoring Committee formed in the resolution of Jet Airways (India)
- Alvarez & Marsal and Mr. Abhilash Lal (Resolution Professional of Jhabua Power Limited)
- Reliance Industries Limited
- Welspun Corp Limited
- TATA Steel Limited
- Monitoring Committee of Sical Logistics Limited and Ernst and Young
- ASG Hospital Private Limited
- Perfect Day Inc.
- Oaktree Capital
- Adani Infrastructure and Developers Private Limited
- Tata Steel Limited
- Plutus Wealth
- Asia Pragati Strategic Investment Fund
- KGK Realty Private Limited & Dhoot Infrastructure Projects Limited
- Experion Developers Private Limited
Lawyers
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