Banking & Finance
Asia-Pacific Guide 2025 : India
Band 1
Contact number
022-40791000About
Provided by Trilegal
A market leader by experience and comprehensive domain expertise.
The reputation that our Banking and Finance practice has built up over the years stems from an intuitive commercial understanding of what our clients want to achieve, the quality of our documentation, and our ability to competently deliver the right outcomes within tight timeframes.
Our Partners regularly advise clients on established as well as emerging products in a dynamic legal and regulatory environment. We provide a focused, pragmatic approach, with fee transparency, and highly effective, technology-driven transaction management.
Our clients are major public and private sector banks, financial institutions, multinationals, domestic banks, multilateral agencies and non-banking financial companies. They rely on us for the depth and breadth of our expertise, our intellectual rigour and our proven track record of finding innovative and commercially viable solutions.
Some of the key areas that our Banking and Finance practice covers are domestic and cross-border transactions, term loans, syndicated loans, private placements of debt notes and external commercial borrowings (ECBs), acquisition finance, project finance, securitisation, restructuring, including distressed investments, enforcement and winding up, and advisory, regulatory, and mergers and acquisitions in the financial services sector.
Chambers Review
Trilegal has a long-established legal practice which is well versed in advising large banks and financial institutions on complex structured transactions in India. The team is active across project finance, refinancing, acquisition finance and term loans. It also boasts experience in private credit transactions, in which the team has acted for global investment firms. The lawyers are additionally experienced in distressed debt transactions and syndicated lending, and handle deals across the renewable energy, transportation and real estate spaces.
Work Highlights
- Trilegal advised Indian banks and financial institutions on the INR34 billion secured rupee term loan facility it provided to Sustainable Energy Infra Trust.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"They are very good at seeing through the problems and finding solutions. Where I have found they really set themselves apart, however, is the quality of their drafting."
"Trilegal's team is very available, that is the best part of it. They turn around the transaction with a large team and very quickly."
"We received clear advice on matters raised. It is a dedicated team with the benefit of the active involvement of a partner."
"They are very good at seeing through the problems and finding solutions. Where I have found they really set themselves apart, however, is the quality of their drafting."
"Trilegal's team is very available, that is the best part of it. They turn around the transaction with a large team and very quickly."
"We received clear advice on matters raised. It is a dedicated team with the benefit of the active involvement of a partner."
Notable Practitioners
Kannan Rahul is a partner based in Trilegal's Mumbai office. His work includes a significant amount of project and real estate finance matters. He regularly represents borrowers and lenders, winning praise from investment banks and major investment funds.
"We rate Kannan very highly. He is extremely balanced in his views. He is never too aggressive or conservative."
"Kannan is very good at working through complex transactions. His approach is very measured and constructive when there are lots of regulations. He is a great negotiator who can resolve conflict."
"He has an excellent track record and name in the market."
Ameya Khandge is a partner at Trilegal, based in its Mumbai office. He represents notable international lenders and public bodies in a range of financing work, including project finance matters.
"What is great about Ameya is his ability to grasp the overall deal structure very quickly, guide his team and suggest commercial structuring solutions."
"Ameya is a great business-oriented lawyer. He has an outstanding capacity to identify the key elements of the transaction and to find suitable solutions to complex matters."