Career
Aastha’s practice focuses on financing as well as corporate insolvency and restructuring matters. She holds extensive experience of over 12 years in handling various banking and finance, projects and project finance transactions, both as lenders’ counsel as well as borrower’s counsel. She advises several renowned banks, NBFCs, credit funds and large corporate houses on various transactions including, structured finance, syndicated lending, real estate financing and financing through NCDs.
Aastha’s restructuring experience involves providing strategic inputs and solutions on a full range of contentious as well as non-contentious distressed situations. She advises a wide range of stakeholders on corporate insolvency and restructuring matters which includes investors, asset reconstruction companies, financial institutions as well as the committees of creditors and regularly appears before the NCLT for various matters under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC). She is also involved in making stakeholders’ representations to the Ministry of Corporate Affairs and the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India on issues under the existing IBC regime and suggesting changes to the same.
Aastha has pursued her B.A.,LL.B (Hons.) from the National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), Kolkata.