Anil Kumar Sharma has over 39 years of work experience at senior positions in public sector companies like IFCI Limited, HUDCO, banks like Allahabad Bank and Dena Bank, and top notch corporate house, dealing with legal issues including drafting of Infrastructure Projects on PPP Model, negotiating and drafting commercial transactions, participated in negotiation of debt financing, purchases, construction or awarding service contract of maintenance or providing services etc. He has been involved in finalization of the consortium documents and has participated in the consortium meetings for finalization of the documents of infrastructure projects like power, toll roads, telecommunication projects, land acquisition, Special Economic Zones and large industrial projects including drafting of regulations and policies for different State Governments.He has handled litigation before the DRT, DRAT, High Court and Supreme Court and has been instrumental in institutionalization of the regulatory frame work /compliance and corporate governance.

Mr. Sharma has been associated with highly prestigious and complex infrastructure projects and has worked for international intuitions like World Bank, Asian Development Bank etc. He has long term associa-tion with Big 4 consultancy companies and has completed about fifty PPP projects and over hundred Project Financing assignments. He has worked for Reliance Group and has served as a Director in one of the Group company. Mr. Sharma has been involved in development of SEZ, airport, port, railway development, power production, super-speciality hospital and other infrastructural sectors.

Highly qualified and vastly experienced, Mr. Sharma has been heading various departments including Banking & Finance, PPP & Infrastruc-ture and Real Estate.

Mr. M. L. Rajora holds over 37 years of work experience in drafting of documents & agreements under Project Financing, PPP model, Infra-structure deals, loan take over by ARC’s & Legal Due Diligence for in-vestment, restructuring & assignment of loan proposals for prestigious institutions & banks. In past, Mr. Rajora has been associated with IREDA and Allahabad Bank.

Mr. Rajora heads Corporate Due Diligence team at the Firm and has expertise in handling banking and finance assignments. He is best known for his expertise in handling suits, appeals, cases and proceed-ings before DRT,DRAT, Official Liquidator, NIA, High Court, Supreme Court of India and interpreting various laws. He frequently appeared before BIFR and AAIFR, and is well known to obtain favorable orders for both creditors and borrowers. He has been involved in verification of legal aspects in Project Financing, perusal and drafting of docu-mentslike Agreements, Joint Ventures, Loan Agreements with World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and other lending agencies like KFW, Germany and OPIC of USA. He has also drafted documents like RFQ,RFP, Concession Agreements, Development Agreements, Lease/Sub-Leases for Infrastructure Projects like Expressway, Hotel, Amusement Park, Power Projects, Navigation, Residential and Com-mercial establishments and designing of project document, participa-tion in negotiations and evaluation of bid.

Mr. Chukkai Vinayak Rao has 34 years of work experience as an in-house counsel of various banks, financial institutions and IL&FS, a prominent transaction advisory and project development company. He has extensive experience of drafting and vetting project financing agreement documents and advisory work on day to day affairs of the bank and financial institution.

He has more than 15 years of advisory experience in IL & FS, as an in- house counsel for development of projects in power, road, bridges, wa-ter, sector specific township, industrial parks educational institutions under ‘public private partnership projects. His role included drafting, vetting of the project agreement/documents, risk management, draft-ing, review of the RFQ,RFP, tender documents, concession agree-ments, development agreements and project financing agree-ments/documents.

He has handled projects sponsored by government (union/state), ADB and World Bank.

Mr. Kamal Kumar Gupta has passed LL.B. from Campus Law Centre, Delhi and enrolled with Bar Council of Delhi as Advocate. He has experience of over 27 years across diverse businesses. He worked in the Legal Department of Industrial Development Bank of India for nearly 12 years. During this association he also worked in the Stressed Asset Stabilization Fund, a special purpose vehicle created by the Government of India to take over a substantial part of NPAs from IDBI. He has worked with Reliance Group for over 11 years and has headed the legal functions of Reliance Infrastructure Limited and Reliance Power Limited. He has rich experience of handling matters in the fields of project and corporate finance, Recovery of Dues, Electricity Laws, Large Infrastructure and PPP Projects pertaining to roads, conventional and renewable sources of energy including Ultra Mega Power Projects, EPC contracts, Mining and Media & Entertainment. His exposure in these fields has been on litigation, Sector Regulatory as well as corporate and commercial sides involving domestic and international disputes before courts and arbitration tribunals, drafting and vetting of commercial contracts including power purchase, O & M, procurement and construction contracts, Corporate and asset due diligence, mergers and acquisitions.

Abhishek Agrawal joined bar in 2004 and is an Advocate on Record in Supreme Court of India. He appears before Supreme Court of India, High Court and District Courts for handling arbitration, civil matters, property related disputes, family and marital disputes and economic offences. His area of expertise is civil litigation, banking matters and consumer related litigation.

M. M. Gupta (Mahendra Mohan Gupta) with B.Sc. LL.M has experience of over three and half decades in Banking operations, Financial Inclusion, Lending & Resolution of Assets, Legal Due Diligence, Documentation and Litigation in his organisations viz Bandhan Bank, ICICI Bank, erstwhile Bank of Rajasthan, IFCI Ltd. and Bank of India. Has dealt with legal issues in public & private sector banks and financial institutions at senior and higher management positions, has expertise in providing legal solutions in Microfinancing, MSME, large corporate and project financing, legal due diligence, legal audits and property title clearance areas etc. He has been closely associated with Initial Public Offers, Bank to Bank and NBFC to Bank mergers besides mentoring teams for documentation of various business products, collaborations and tie ups with NBFC, HFCs, Mutual Funds, Insurance Companies, VISA, Mastercard, Digital Services and Debt Assignments etc. On Stressed Asset Resolution front, he has played roles of Official Liquidator, Authorised Officer in several NPAs and recovered substantial amounts in his past organisations. Has played pivotal role on various management committees and advised legalities on various policies & frameworks, employment, service & human resources, disciplinary, sexual harassment at workplace, corporate governance, compliance, statutory and regulatory issues during his tenure Banks and Financial Institutions.