INSOL International India Virtual Seminar
In Association with INSOL India
23-25 February 9.00am [GMT]
Keynote Speaker: Honorable Mr. Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Supreme Court of India.
His Lordship obtained his LL.B. Degree from The Campus Law Centre, Delhi University in 1982 and enrolled as an Advocate with Bar Council of Delhi on July 15, 1982. His Lordship practiced mainly in the Commercial, Civil, Writ, Original and Company jurisdictions of the High Court of Delhi and the Supreme Court of India. The cases also involved appearances before MRTP Commission, Company Law Board, Debt Recovery Tribunal and Arbitrators apart from the other nature of litigation including Constitutional, Banking, Finance and Insurance, Customs and Excise, MRTP, Real Estate, Administrative, Co-operative, Commercial, Service, Telecommunication, Anti- Dumping Laws, etc.
His Lordship remained Advocate-on-Record of the Supreme Court of India from 1987 to 1999 and was designated as a Senior Advocate in December, 1999. His Lordship was appointed Senior Counsel for the Delhi High Court and for the Delhi University, was on the Senior panel of Union of India and served as the Additional Senior Standing Counsel for the DDA.
His Lordship was elevated as Additional Judge of the High Court of Delhi on May 03, 2001 and was appointed as a permanent Judge on May 02, 2003.
His Lordship was elevated as the Acting Chief Justice of Delhi High Court w.e.f. 23.09.2012 to 25.09.2012.
His Lordship was elevated as the Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court w.e.f. 01.06.2013.
His Lordship assumed charge as the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court on 26.07.2014.
His Lordship was appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court of India on 17.02.2017.
His Lordship is deeply interested in theatre, music and golf.
Moderator: Nikhil Shah, Alvarez & Marsal, India
Nikhil Shah is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal and leads the turnaround & restructuring practice in India. He has played an integral role in several high profile turnarounds, performance improvement, distressed M&A and financial restructuring projects and brings more than 15 years serving public and privately owned companies.
He has led several complex engagements across a range of industries including steel, power, infrastructure, transportation, telecom, financial services, consumer electronics, chemicals, technology and textiles across North America and Asia. He has also authored several white papers on the stressed asset market including Outlook for Stressed Asset Market in India and Asset Reconstruction Companies: Small Steps on a Long Road Ahead. Mr. Shah has also advised the Bankruptcy Law Reform Committee and Joint Parliamentary Committee on drafting of the Indian Insolvency & Bankruptcy Act of 2016. He is currently serving the Ministry of Corporate Affairs on implementation of the new insolvency & bankruptcy code.
Padmakumar Nair, State Bank of India, Stressed Asset Resolution Group, India
Lily Vadera, Retired, Previously RBI, India
- in policy making for the banks and non-bank financial institutions. Some of the major policy initiatives where I played a lead role include entry point norms for differentiated banks, framing of a prudential framework for resolution of stressed assets, resolution of weak banks/NBFIs, governance in banks, liquidity framework for NBFIs, regulation of Housing Finance companies.
- In taking forward the Bank’s agenda on furthering financial inclusion, for SMEs.
- Gained experience in dealing with the COVID crisis. I played a key role in initiating several measures to provide relief both to the banking sector and their customers.
- Had the opportunity to be part of several committees of the bank/government/international forums.
- Chaired an Inter-Regulator Technical Group(IRTG) of the Bank to coordinate and discuss inter-regulatory issues on banking matters.
L. Viswanathan, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, India
Moderator: Veena Sivaramakrishnan, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, India
Veena has significant experience in Banking, Financial Services Regulatory, Financing, Derivatives, Insolvency, Bankruptcy and Restructuring. Veena has been a part of many “firsts” for her area of practice, by either being involved in the mandate or by advising the industry on such a transaction. These transactions include the NBFC merger of Capital First and IDFC Bank, first successful debt and equity restructuring under the SDR regime of RBI, involving the sale of Hyatt Hotels Pune to SAMHI group, legal validity to OTC derivatives under Indian laws and the introduction of Credit Derivatives, successful restructuring of sale of Leela Hotels to Brookfield, issuance of the first partly paid NCD structure, winding down of regulated entities such as banks and NBFCs in India, setting up of a special liquidity trust under the directions of the Government, to cater to COVID-19 related defaults and asset monetisation structures for easing liquidity to NBFCs, etc.
Ravi Chachra, Eight Capital, India
Shuva Mandal, Tata Sons, India
Sudhir Mathur, CG Power, India
Moderator: Dhananjay Kumar, INSOL Fellow, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, India
Craig Montgomery, INSOL Fellow, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer,UK
Bahram Vakil, AZB & Partners, India
Moderator: Abizer Diwanji, EY, India
Anurag Das, IARC, India
Nilang Desai, AZB & Partners, India
Rajnish Kumar, Previously State Bank of India
Moderator: Dhananjay Kumar, INSOL Fellow, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, India
Partner in the Projects and Projects Finance Team at the Mumbai office of Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas. Dhananjay specialises in project and project finance and focuses mainly on oil & gas, telecom and port sectors. He advises both lenders and developers in the infrastructure sector and has acted for many key players in this space. Dhananjay is also a member of the Bankruptcy Practice of the Firm.
Indranil Ghosh, Cerberus, India
Mr. Ghosh joined Cerberus in 2019 as a Managing Director to establish and lead Cerberus’ office in India.
With more than 15 years of investment experience in India, Mr. Ghosh has led and managed investments across the capital structure in a wide variety of industries. He was most recently a Principal at AION Capital, the India special situation fund of Apollo Global Management and ICICI Bank, from 2014 to 2018. During his tenure at AION, he was responsible for credit investments, both high-yield and non-performing loans, and value-oriented buyouts. Prior to AION, Mr. Ghosh was a Vice President at Citigroup Venture Capital International, where he was involved in growth equity investing across industries and was responsible for the management of Indian portfolio companies. He also held an investment banking role at Lehman Brothers, where he was one of the first hires of the team in India, and at Citigroup. Mr. Ghosh began his professional career as a corporate banker at ICICI Bank from 2002 to 2004.
Mr. Ghosh is a graduate of the Mumbai University and is also a Chartered Accountant.
Akash Suri, YES BANK, India
Akash Suri is Group President & Head: Asset Reconstruction Management at YES Bank.
He is a seasoned banking professional with deep experience across various business lines within banking & financial services. He has worked across strategic teams / various areas. Currently, he is leading the Stressed Asset Vertical in the Bank.
In his current role, Akash has been instrumental in setting up and building the Asset Resolution Vertical in Yes Bank. Akash leads the resolution and rehabilitation of the corporate stressed assets portfolio in the Bank. This involves financial & operational restructuring, turnaround or special situation financing, rehabilitation of distressed assets across industry sectors, and recovery or liquidation, as is required. In this role, he is at the helm of finding resolution in highly complicated and diverse situation surrounding stressed assets.
He has over 15 years of experience in various capacities and in leading organizations like GENPACT, HSBC India & Yes Bank.
Manish Jain, SSG Advisors, India
Moderator: Dr. Susan Thomas, Jindal Global Business School, India
Susan Thomas has studied at IIT Bombay and the University of Southern California. She has been faculty at the Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research. Her research interests are in financial econometrics and market microstructure in India. Her engagement with markets includes designing the stock market index, real-time risk management system for the clearing corporation, the use of call auctions, analysing the growth of algorithmic trading on the quality of equity and commodities markets, the development of the zero coupon yield curve and the implications of the quality of land records on credit markets. She has had various policy engagements with the Ministry of Finance including being a member of the Standing Council of the competitiveness of the Indian Financial Sector (2013 onwards), and the Bankruptcy Legislative Reforms Committee (2014-2015). She led the research team that designed and drafted the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (2016) and worked with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs on the organisational structure of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India and the National Companies Law Tribunal.
Dr. K.P. Krishnan, Prof., National Council of Applied Economics Research (NCAER), India
Dr K P Krishnan is the IEPF Chair Professor in Regulatory Economics. The Chair has been established with the support of the Investor Education and Protection Fund Authority of the Government of India. Dr Krishnan leads a group focused on research and policy outreach in the broad area of regulatory and public economics, including concerns about investor protection and financial sector reforms, land policy and records, public finance and public administration, and law, economics, and justice.
Aparna Ravi, Samvad Partners, India
Aparna Ravi’s practice focuses on banking and finance, insolvency law, private equity and venture capital investments and general corporate advisory matters. She has considerable experience advising on financing and restructuring transactions in multiple jurisdictions.
Prior to joining Samvad, Aparna worked in the corporate and capital markets departments at the New York and London offices of the law firm, Weil Gotshal & Manges, and subsequently as in-house counsel at Credit Suisse in London.
Aparna was a member of the Bankruptcy Law Reform Committee constituted by the Central Government and writes and delivers lectures regularly on insolvency law reform in India. She recently edited the 6th edition of Mulla The Law of Insolvency in India, a treatise on personal insolvency law that was published by Lexis Nexis in September 2017
Dr. Renuka Sane, Assoc. Prof., National Institute of Public Finance Policy (NIPFP), India
Renuka Sane is an Associate Professor at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP). Her research interests are in household finance, especially on household choice in financial instruments such as credit, pensions, insurance and equity markets, as well as consumer protection in finance. She is also interested in research and policy on the criminal justice system in India.
Research areas: Household Finance, Pensions, Consumer Protection in Finance
