Meera Murali

Meera Murali is an Associate Partner in the New Delhi office of Phoenix Legal and is part of the firm's Restructuring and Insolvency practice. Her primary practice area is Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law, and she has over 10 years of experience.

She advises and represents a diverse range of domestic and international clients on insolvency and restructuring matters, including leading financial institutions, companies and conglomerates, committees of creditors, resolution professionals, liquidators, bidders and resolution applicants. Her practice spans both strategic advisory and complex dispute resolution related to all aspects of corporate insolvency resolution and liquidation processes.

She has represented clients in several high-profile and contentious insolvency matters before various benches of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT), the High Court of Delhi, the Appellate Authority under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA), Debt Recovery Tribunals (DRTs), and other courts and forums.

Her recent experience includes advising one of India's leading independent power producers as a resolution applicant in the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) of Jaiprakash Associates Limited; advising the Committee of Creditors in the CIRP of Reliance Capital Limited, including resolution plan implementation and related litigation; and advising Power Finance Corporation Limited on litigation, CIRP-related advisory and dispute resolution matters pertaining to Gensol Engineering Limited and Blu-Smart group entities.

She is advising a leading global aviation training and simulation company and its Indian group companies in litigation related to the CIRP of Jet Airways Limited, and acting for the Successful Resolution Applicant in the corporate restructuring and litigation matters following the CIRP of GVK Power (Goindwal Sahib) Limited. She has also advised a Singapore-based alternative investment firm on funding the acquisition of a large corporate under CIRP by financing the prospective resolution applicant, and advised a prominent crypto exchange platform in proceedings before the Appellate Authority under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002.

Other matters include advising a leading Indian bank on the creation and perfection of security interests over an aircraft in connection with a receivables purchase facility, advising a leading NBFC on the acquisition of debts of prominent Mumbai and Hyderabad-based real estate companies, and acting for resolution applicants in the CIRP of Lanco Amarkantak Power Limited, KSK Mahanadi Power Company Limited, Raigarh Champa Rail Infrastructure Private Limited, KSK Water Infrastructure Private Limited, SKS Power Generation (Chhattisgarh) Limited and Sonata Realty Private Limited, among others.

She has also advised a Maharatna company on merger and internal restructuring with a newly acquired petrochemical company under an insolvency resolution process; advised the Committee of Creditors in the CIRP of Punj Lloyd Limited, Ballarpur Industries Limited, Metenere Limited, Indosolar Limited and Asian Colour Coated Ispat Limited, among others; and acted for the Resolution Professional in the CIRP of Indo Global Soft Solutions & Technologies Limited and Sintex BAPL, among others.