Nilang Desai

Practice Areas

• Banking & Finance

• Restructuring & Insolvency

Career

With over 18 years of experience, Nilang Desai specialises in Restructuring & Insolvency as well as Structured Finance matters. His practice focuses on a comprehensive range of domestic and international business reorganisation and restructuring matters having acted on many market firsts in this space. Nilang also represents various banks, financial institutions, multilateral and bilateral institutions as well as borrowers in connection with Indian and offshore structured loan transactions. With extensive cross–border experience, Nilang and the market-leading team at AZB have led highly complex structuring deals in collaboration with international teams. He holds a Bachelors of Law from King’s College London, qualified as a Solicitor in England and Wales, is an Indian advocate and has qualified as a chartered accountant.

Professional Memberships

• Member of Working Group to propose the best practices for Insolvency Professional Entities registered as Insolvency Professionals, constituted by the Insolvency Law Academy (2023)

• Invitee to the Manoharan Committee of the RBI on revitalizing the secondary debt trading market

• Participant in the Insolvency Law Committee constituted by the Ministry of Corporate Affair (2018-2023)

• Participant in the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India Committee on Prepacks under IBC (2019)

• Participant in various RBI roundtables on the IBC

• Vice President (elect) and Executive Committee Member (elect) of Insol India

• Member of the Technical Committee for Insol 2023

• Law Society of England & Wales (2008)

• Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa (2005)

Publications

https://www.azbpartners.com/bank/asia-pacific-restructuring-and-insolvency-procedures-apac-guide-india-3rd-edition/

https://www.azbpartners.com/bank/risks-for-transactions-and-directors-in-financially-distressed-businesses-india/

https://www.azbpartners.com/bank/litigation-financing-for-avoidance-applications-investment-opportunities-and-value-maximisation-under-the-insolvency-and-bankruptcy-code/

https://www.azbpartners.com/bank/overview-of-the-evolving-jurisprudence-under-the-insolvency-and-bankruptcy-code-2016/