Mr Abhishek Saxena > Phoenix Legal > NEW DELHI, India > Lawyer Profile

Phoenix Legal‘s restructuring and insolvency department offers assistance on corporate restructuring, insolvency proceedings, and voluntary liquidations to insolvency professionals and stakeholders from a range of sectors including financial services, telecoms, and retail, to name a few. Restructuring specialist Manjula Chawla and disputes expert Gautam Bhatikar co-head the practice alongside transactional authority Abhishek Saxena. Piyush Mishra joined from Luthra and Luthra Law Offices India in August 2024.

Phoenix Legal has in-depth knowledge of employment law and handles a broad range of labour-related matters. The practice is jointly led by Delhi-based duo Abhishek Saxena and Pranav Srivastava.

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.

The team at Phoenix Legal excels across the full spectrum of matters in the projects and infrastructure space, offering clients aid with mandates related to project development and sale and purchase agreements, as well as regulation and disputes. Abhishek Saxena, whose wide practice encompasses both corporate and transactional mandates, steers the group alongside Pallavi Bedi, who handles the gamut of work relating to energy projects, from investment and financing right through to development and construction, and Saket Shukla, who juggles a blend of regulatory and transactional matters from the office in New Delhi. Delhi-based Ashita Bali also stands out as a key figure in the power space, handling a diverse range of non-conventional and conventional energy work such as liquefied natural gas and solar projects.

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.