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Mr Sawant Singh
Work Department
Banking and Finance, Private equity, Project finance and infrastructure, Employment.
Position
Sawant Singh is a co-founding partner based in the Mumbai office.
Career
Sawant’s areas of expertise include private equity, project finance, securitisation, asset reconstruction, consortium banking, domestic and external commercial borrowings and debt restructuring. He also advises clients on a host of corporate and commercial, labour/employment and real estate issues including inbound and outbound foreign investment, corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures.
Sawant’s services have been widely recognized and he is known for having a “great reputation” in the market. According to Asialaw Profiles, Sawant “is highly respected by peers and much acclaimed by clients” and according to Chambers and Partners, Sawant “has great clarity of thought and varied exposure, and handles very big transactions with ease”. He also has been referred to, by Chambers & Partners, as one of India’s most in-demand banking practitioners and has been listed in the ‘A-List: India’s Top 100 Lawyers’ by the Indian Business Law Journal.
Clients praise him for his “solution-focused and practical approach” in addition to his “very calm demeanor, which is a huge plus in high stakes negotiations”. They admire him for being “accessible, smart and quick in his responses” and for being “able to see the commercial aspects of the matter”. Chambers and Partners has also certified Sawant as “Highly recommended as a leading lawyer in Banking and Finance” in 2012 till 2024. According to them Sawant is described as being “a very well-regarded lawyer on the banking side,” and a “project finance veteran”.
Year qualified: 1997
Languages
English, Hindi.
Memberships
Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa
British Business Group
Indo-German Chamber of Commerce
Education
The Doon School
National Law School of India University, Bangalore (1997).
Leisure
Travel and Photography.
Lawyer Rankings
India > TMT
Counting software companies, internet start-ups, and investors amongst its key clients, the Phoenix Legal practice has great experience advising on issues relating to policy, IP protection, and compliance. In the New Delhi office, Saket Shukla specialises in strategic advisory work and corporate transactions, whilst Sawant Singh is an expert on private equity and project finance. Associate partner Aditi Sharma focuses on cross-border investments and joint ventures.
India > Labour and employment
Adept at handling both contentious and non-contentious employment matters, Phoenix Legal regularly advises on employee transfers, disciplinary inquiries, industrial disputes, and terminations, with particular sector expertise in the manufacturing and service industries. Manjula Chawla and Abhishek Saxena take point on corporate employment matters; Saket Shukla handles restructurings and senior executive exits; Sawant Singh in Mumbai has a broad practice and is recommended for M&A-related employment mandates, while Pranav Srivastava is the key contact for clients in the tech and life sciences sectors. The five co-lead the practice. All lawyers mentioned are based in Delhi unless otherwise stated.
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.
India > Corporate and M&A
Phoenix Legal offers in-depth experience in providing advice on corporate, regulatory, and corporate governance matters across a wide range of spaces, ranging from infrastructure to healthcare. The firm displays skill in handling multi-jurisdictional M&A and business restructurings, along with assisting corporations on investment models which ensure a beneficial tax structure. Operating out of New Delhi, Manjula Chawla focuses on corporate finance and joint ventures, Saket Shukla specialises in strategic advisory work, and Abhishek Saxena’s practice includes insolvency and restructuring matters. Pranav Srivastava is an expert on the technology and life sciences sector, whilst from Mumbai, co-founding partner Sawant Singh has expertise in private equity and project finance work. Akshay Sachthey is also noted as a key lawyer.