Shivani Sinha

Shivani Sinha is a Partner based in the Delhi office of Phoenix Legal. Her primary practice area is Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law, and she is primarily involved in the restructuring and insolvency, banking and finance, structured finance and corporate practices of the firm.

She regularly advises a diverse clientele including insolvency professionals, insolvency professional entities, lenders, joint lenders forum and bidders in the distressed assets space, as well as Indian and foreign banks and financial institutions, investors, arrangers and companies and conglomerates on a wide range of financing matters including cross-border financings, structured finance, plain and syndicated rupee term loans, ECB facilities, ODI facilities, project finance, acquisition financing, real estate finance and securitisation transactions. She also handles court and MCA-approved schemes of amalgamation and arrangement, and contentious matters related to her practice areas.

Prior to joining Phoenix Legal, she was a partner with Luthra and Luthra Law Offices India and has also worked with Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co., Link Legal, and Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co.

Her recent experience includes advising resolution applicants and bidders on resolution plans and liquidation for Jaiprakash Associates Limited, GVK Power (Goindwal Sahib) Ltd., KSK Mahanadi Power Company Ltd., McNally Bharat Engineering Company Ltd. and SKS Power Generation (Chhattisgarh) Ltd.; advising the Committee of Creditors and creditors on the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) and liquidation of large companies including Reliance Capital Ltd., Uttam Galva companies, Essar Power MP Ltd. and Prabhat Technologies Ltd.; and advising resolution professionals on complex CIRP deals across sectors including Jyoti Structures Ltd., Sintex-BAPL Ltd., Indo Global Soft Solutions and Technologies Ltd. and Educomp Infrastructure & School Management Ltd.

She has also advised a prominent real estate group on the issuance of listed and unlisted NCDs for the purposes of refinancing debt availed for various projects of the group; advised special situation creditors and funds on the acquisition of debt as part of the restructuring of distressed companies and as potential financiers for bidders under the IBC process; and advised consortiums of foreign banks on financing various overseas group companies of prominent Indian conglomerates under the Overseas Investment framework of RBI and FEMA. She has represented several banks, financial institutions and developers in project financing transactions across sectors such as thermal power, hydro power, ports, road, hotel, wind and solar.