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Our Banking and Finance practice's reputation as a market leader has been built on the foundation of 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.​ 

We represent lenders and borrowers across a wide spectrum covering sponsors and corporates. Our key clients include  

  • major domestic banks such as ICICI Bank, State Bank of India and Axis Bank,  

  • foreign banks such as Standard Chartered Bank, Deutsche Bank, Citibank, Barclays, Nomura and Rabobank, 

  • multilateral agencies such as IFC, US Exim Bank, and UK's CDC Group, 

  • sponsors such as Brookfield and Blackstone, and  

  • non-banking financial companies and offshore credit funds such as Edelweiss, SSG, Piramal Capital and Housing Finance, KKR, and Varde.​  

We work on a range of domestic and cross border structured financing transactions with varied complexity, covering acquisition finance,project finance,private DCM, securitisation,and debt restructuring. This includes distressed investments, enforcement and winding up, and advisory, regulatory, and mergers and acquisitions in the financial services sector. 





Chambers Review

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Banking & Finance - India

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Band 1

What the Team is Known For

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

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  • Trilegal advised Indian banks and financial institutions on the INR34 billion secured rupee term loan facility it provided to Sustainable Energy Infra Trust.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Kannan Rahul
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Kannan Rahul
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Band 2
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.

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.

We rate Kannan very highly. He is extremely balanced in his views. He is never too aggressive or conservative.

He has an excellent track record and name in the market.

Ameya Khandge
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Ameya Khandge
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Band 4
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.

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.

What is great about Ameya is his ability to grasp the overall deal structure very quickly, guide his team and suggest commercial structuring solutions.

Ranked Lawyers at
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Banking & Finance

Kannan Rahul
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Kannan Rahul
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Band 2
Ameya Khandge
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Ameya Khandge
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Band 4

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