Chandhiok & Mahajan, Advocates and Solicitors

Restructuring & Insolvency

Partner and Head of Insolvency & Restructuring

Pooja Mahajan is the Managing Partner of Chandhiok & Mahajan, Advocates & Solicitors. Pooja leads the firm's Restructuring & Insolvency practice group which advises clients on stress asset resolution and restructuring solutions, including through formal insolvency process under the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC). Pooja represents creditors, debtors, insolvency practitioners, as well as investors, both strategic and financial, looking to invest in or acquire distressed business/ assets. Pooja does both non- contentious and non-contentious work and routinely appears and argues before Indian bankruptcy tribunals such as the NCLT, NCLAT and the Supreme Court of India in various insolvency and liquidation proceedings.

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Pooja is part of the President of INSOL India and the Co-chair of the DIB Committee of IWIRC (International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation). She has served as the Council Co-Chair at ASSOCHAM National Council for Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code and Valuation in the past. Pooja has worked with World Bank on various projects in the Indian restructuring and insolvency space and was part of the World Bank’s 2019 Task Force for MSME Insolvency and 2022 and 2023 Taskforce for Insolvency & Creditor/Debtor Regimes. Pooja was also part of the IWIRC’s delegation to the sixty-fifth session of UNCITRAL Working Group V (Insolvency Law) in Vienna (December 2024).

BCL, University of Oxford LL.B., Delhi University

Before joining C&M, Pooja was a partner in Amarchand & Mangaldas Suresh A. Shroff & Co. She started her career at the chambers of the late Mr Arun Jaitley (considered as the father of India’s insolvency reforms) and is a graduate from the University of Delhi, with first-class honours and a post-graduate with distinction from the University of Oxford.