Shivani Sinha
Partner
Delhi
Shivani, a partner based in the Delhi office of Phoenix Legal, is primarily involved in the restructuring and insolvency, banking and finance, structured finance and corporate practices of the firm. She regularly advises a diverse clientele which includes insolvency professionals, insolvency professionals entities, lenders, joint lenders forum, bidders etc. in distressed assets space and Indian and foreign banks and financial institutions, investors, arrangers, and companies/conglomerates on a wide range of financing matters including cross border financings, structured finance, plain and syndicated rupee term loans, ECB facilities, ODI facilities, project finance, acquisition financing, real estate finance, and securitization transactions. She also does court/MCA approved schemes of amalgamations/arrangements and handles contentious matters related to her practice areas.
Prior to joining Phoenix Legal, Shivani was a partner with Luthra and Luthra Law Offices India and in past has also worked with Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co., Link Legal, and Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co.
- Advised Resolution Applicants/bidders on resolution plan/liquidation for Jaiprakash Associates Limited, GVK Power (Goindwal Sahib) Ltd., KSK Mahanadi Power Company Ltd., McNally Bharat Engineering Company Ltd., and SKS Power Generation (Chhattisgarh) Ltd.
- Advised the Committee of Creditors and/ or creditor(s) on the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP)/ liquidation of some large companies including Reliance Capital Ltd., Uttam Galva companies, Essar Power MP Ltd. and Prabhat Technologies Ltd.
- Advised Resolution Professionals on complex CIRP deals across sectors including Jyoti Structures Ltd., Sintex-BAPL Ltd., Indo Global Soft Solutions and Technologies Ltd., and Educomp Infrastructure & School Management Ltd.
- Advised a prominent real estate group in respect of issuance of listed/ unlisted NCDs for the purposes of refinancing the debt availed for various projects of the group.
- Advised special situation creditors/ funds in acquisition of debt as part of restructuring of distressed companies and as potential financier for bidders under IBC process.
- Advised consortiums of foreign banks in financing various overseas group companies of prominent Indian conglomerates under Overseas Investment framework of RBI and FEMA.
- Represented several banks/ FIs and developers in respect of project financing transactions of various sectors such as: thermal power, hydro power, ports, road, hotel, wind, solar, etc.
