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.
