Specialising in advising on multi-lender consortium financing agreements and inter-creditor arrangements, Desai & Diwanji's banking and finance team works on the full spectrum of issues, from pre-insolvency restructuring to structuring transactions. Leading the team is Rahul Chauhan, focusing on project finance, stressed asset transactions, loan agreements, bond deeds, power-purchase agreements and framework agreements, and Natasha Treasurywala, a corporate practitioner and expert in secured and unsecured credit facilities and non-convertible debentures and bond issues.
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Key clients

  • State Bank of India
  • Shapoorji Pallonji Infrastructure Capital Company Private Limited
  • Kotak Alternate Asset Managers Limited
  • Prince Aly Khan Hospital Trust
  • Neo Asset Management Private Limited o
  • Veolia India Private Limited/ Nangloi Water Services Private Limited
  • Edville DC Private Limited/ Sterling and Wilson Private Limited

Work highlights

Acted as legal counsel in a transaction where Shoden Developers Private Limited availed real estate financing from the State Bank of India to part-finance the construction and development of two residential projects.
Acted as legal counsel to the investor in a transaction involving Simar Port Private Limited issuing secured unlisted non-convertible debentures and optionally convertible debentures to an Alternate Investment Fund.
Acted as legal counsel to Prince Aly Khan Hospital Trust in its transaction to avail debt from Standard Chartered Bank and Tata Capital Limited.

Practice head

Rahul Chauhan; Natasha Treasurywala