Mr Sawant Singh > Phoenix Legal > NEW DELHI, India > Lawyer Profile
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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 > Banking and finance
Handling external commercial borrowings, project finance, and financing transactions in the energy and infrastructure industries, the banking and finance team at Phoenix Legal routinely acts for domestic and offshore financial institutions, export credit agencies, and NBFCs. Aditya Bhargava takes point on cross-border financings, syndicated term loans, and structured finance work, working alongside the private equity and project finance-focused Sawant Singh and Harsh Arora, who handles restructurings, debt and equity investments, as well as project finance in the infrastructure space. Singh, Bhargava, and Arora jointly oversee the group alongside co-head and co-founder Abhishek Saxena.
India > Corporate and M&A
Capable of advising both sellers and acquirers across a multitude of transactions, Phoenix Legal’s core streams of work routinely consist of mergers, share swaps, restructurings and spin-offs. Four key players lead the group, namely Abhishek Saxena, Sawant Singh, ‘brilliant’ Pranav Srivastava and Sumit Sinha.