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Phoenix Legal
PHOENIX HOUSE 254
OKHLA INDUSTRIAL ESTATE
PHASE III
110020
India

Position

Harsh Arora is part of the Banking & Finance practice group and a parter based in Delhi. His current practice spans a wide spectrum of legal services with specific focus on banking and finance, restructuring, infrastructure and public-private partnerships.

Career

His current practice spans a wide spectrum of legal services with specific focus on banking and finance, restructuring, infrastructure and public-private partnerships. With over 18 years of experience, he has represented major international and Indian banks and financial institutions, in their debt and equity investments in Indian companies.

He has advised on various transactions ranging from vanilla banking transactions to structured finance, project finance and mergers and acquisitions. He is considered a trusted legal counsel by various corporations, banks and financial institutions including PFC, REC, State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank, IndusInd Bank, HDFC Bank, L&T Finance, Yes Bank, Adani Group, Amplus Power, Renew Power and Enfinity Global. Besides having robust banking and finance exposure he has handled diverse infrastructure projects in the areas of defence, health, education, rail, airport, renewable energy, agribusiness etc. Some of the clients with whom he has been closely associated include the Ministry of Defence, Government of India, SBI Caps, Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation Limited, Government of Goa, International Finance Corporation, RECTPCL, Airports Authority of India and CIDCO.

He has been recognized as a “Recommended Lawyer” by Legal 500 Asia Pacific, “Highly Regarded (Banking)” by IFLR’s 2021 edition, Who’s Who Legal for Project Finance and “Notable practitioner’ by Asia Law (2022).

 

Languages

Hindi and English

Memberships

  • Bar Council of Delhi.
  • Associate Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India.

Lawyer Rankings

India > Banking and finance

Phoenix Legal is highly experienced in the structured capital and debt market space and regularly advises a variety of lending institutions. The team is equally effective in syndicated lending work and assists clients with the structuring of loans, letters of credit and transactional banking facilities. Sawant Singh is known for his expertise in asset reconstructions and consortium banking transactions and jointly heads up the team with Abhishek Saxena and cross-border financing expert Aditya Bhargava. Other key members include Harsh Arora, who has built a reputation for advising major international and Indian banks and financial institutions on investments in Indian companies, and Mithila Bhati, who regularly advises clients on acquisition financings.