AZB & Partners

AZB & Partners boasts a longstanding reputation in the Indian market for its restructuring and insolvency expertise. The group routinely represents creditors, liquidators, and businesses in high-value mandates, both domestically and internationally. Its robust offering encompasses insolvency resolution processes, related litigation, and acquisitions, as well as corporate agreements, reallocations of resolution plan proceeds, and transaction structuring, among other matters. At the helm of the practice is Bahram Vakil, who predominantly advises multinational banks on acquisitions under the IBC, restructurings and bidding processes, and insolvency proceedings. He is supported by structured finance and private credit authority Nilang Desai, voluntary insolvency and resolution applicant expert Hardeep Sachdeva, and Ravi Bhasin, who stands out for his distressed acquisition and debt recovery prowess. The team also benefits from the aptitude of Anindita Roychowdhury, who concentrates on disputes arising from insolvencies and liquidations. On the restructuring and structured debt issuances front, Suharsh Sinha is the name to note, while Avinash Subramanian is a key contact for structured credit issues. Other core practitioners in the department include Saloni Thakkar, Abhishek Awasthi, and Abhyudai Singh.