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Sharmil Bhushan

Partner

LOCATION
Mumbai

Profile

Sharmil is a Partner in the Mumbai office of the firm. With over 16 years of experience, she has built her areas of expertise around banking and finance, investment funds, financial services, mergers & acquisitions, takeovers, private equity, structuring and funds formation, inbound and outbound investments, securities market, strategic alliances, joint ventures, corporate and debt restructuring, resolution of distressed assets, enforcement of security, insolvency proceeding, general corporate and commercial transactions.

Sharmil regularly advises Indian and multinational banks, NBFCs, financial institutions and their branches situated in International Financial Service Centres, Gift City and corporates across sectors on various aspects of Indian law, including in relation to capital expenditure, project & acquisition financing, leverage buyouts, structuring and implementing debt, quasi-debt and equity transactions, etc. She has been actively involved in various debt restructuring, security enforcement assignments, and the insolvency resolution process under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code. She also advises on setting up of private equity funds, offshore funds, venture capital funds, alternative investment funds (AIFs), infrastructure investment trusts (InvITs) and real estate investment trust (REITs).

Her corporate advisory work comprises of deal structuring/conceptualization, negotiations, documentation, closing of corporate and commercial transactions including monitoring of pre- and post-closing obligations. She has been assisting investors in devising and implementing exit strategies from Indian investments.

Sharmil also routinely advises Boards of listed and unlisted companies, on governance and other related issues.

Sharmil regularly contributes to the academia and visits law colleges and business schools in India as an honorary professor.

Expertise

Capital Markets
Restructuring & Insolvency
Automobile
Energy & Natural Resources
Transportation & Logistics

Education

  • Bachelor of Law, Mumbai University
  • Company Secretary, Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI)

Memberships

  • Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa

Select Experience Statement

  • Represented an Indian conglomerate in relation to acquisition/setting-up of its financial services vertical including insurance broking, alternate investment funds, mutual fund, non-banking finance company, housing finance company, forex company - AD II category license engaged in foreign exchange business, portfolio management services, investment banking, etc.
  • Represented an Indian bank in relation to INR 6.55 billion term loan facility (along with non- fund-based sub limits for cash credit and bank guarantee) extended to a company for constructing and setting up of the LPG terminal in Gujarat.
  • Represented an Indian bank in relation to INR 2.70 billion term loan facility (along with non-fund-based sub limits for letter of credit and bank guarantee) extended to various SPVs under an obligor and co-obligor structure for setting up logistics projects in different parts of India.
  • Represented a consortium of financial institutions in relation to secured lease rental discounting facilities of an aggregate amount of INR 9.00 billion to a reality group.
  • Represented an offshore fund in relation to assignment of INR 20 billion loan book by a non-banking finance company to a trust pursuant to the securitization guidelines issued by the Reserve Bank of India.
  • Represented a Financial Institutions in relation to structured financing transactions to various borrower groups.
  • Represented a BFSI regulatory advisory in relation to issues concerning Reserve Bank of India, Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority, Securities and Exchange Board of India, International Financial Services Centres Authority and other relevant government authorities concerning BFSI sector.
  • Represented an Indian conglomerate in relation to setting-up renewable power projects in various states in India, raising of equity/debt capital, provisions of insurance, assignment of receivables and insurance proceeds, drafting and negotiating various project related contracts, and providing end-to-end support in relation to commissioning of the projects.

Industry Presence

  • Active in the Indo-Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Contact Details

  • 17th floor, Nirmal Building, Nariman Point, Mumbai, Maharashtra-400021 (India)
  • +91 22 6112 0700
  • +91 22 6655 9705
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