International Conclave 2024

Anoop Rawat is a Partner with Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co more than 20 years of experience and specialises in Insolvency & Bankruptcy, Projects, Banking and Finance.

Specifically in Insolvency & Bankruptcy, Anoop boasts of having represented clients across various capacities, including resolution professionals, the committee of creditors, and the resolution applicants and across different sectors such as finance, infrastructure, manufacturing, mining, power, real estate, regulatory, retail, and telecommunications. He has been instrumental in development of the insolvency jurisprudence in India through effective legal representation of different stakeholders in complex and unprecedented insolvency matters in the country. These matters include the first consolidated corporate insolvency resolution process of an entire group (Videocon), the consolidated insolvency resolution process of Lavasa Corporation and its subsidiaries, the first consolidated insolvency process of the financial service providers (SREI), the insolvency resolution process in telecommunications space (Reliance and Aircel). He has played an active role in the insolvency resolution of several of the 12 large corporate accounts (colloquially known as the dirty dozen) who were referred to insolvency by the Reserve Bank of India.

Anoop also has, in his earlier role as Projects and Infrastructure lawyer, extensively advised on matters pertaining to mining, power projects, oil & gas, roads, ports, airports etc. He has negotiated innovative security structures, concession arrangement and other project documentation on behalf of clients to ensure bankable and commercially viable projects. Particularly in the power sector, Anoop has advised NTPC on its cross border power project in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh and SJVN on its hydro power project in Nepal and Bhutan. The advisory included negotiating the State Support Agreement, Implementation Agreement, Concession Agreement and Power Purchase Agreement. He has also advised on some of the largest infrastructure projects in India, which apart from being first-of-its-kind, rank high in terms of complexity and innovation.

Additionally, Anoop has extensively advised on project finance, banking and finance and debt restructuring transactions. Anoop has advised both lenders (including Nationalised and Private Banks and other lenders) and borrowers on big infrastructure financing including power projects in India and in Bangladesh, large road projects and corporate (debt) financing. Anoop has worked on several large debt restructuring transactions under the Reserve Bank of India restructuring regulations/directions which included various kind of debt restructuring mandates including deep restructuring, flexible structuring, one time settlement etc.

As a thought leader in the insolvency space, Anoop has been consistently rated as a leading insolvency lawyer by several international fora and publications, including Asialaw, Chambers and Partners, Indian Business Law Journal (IBLJ), Forbes India, International Financial Law Review (IFLR), Legal Era, RSG India, and more.