Arka Majumdar
Asia-Pacific Guide 2025
Band 1 : Corporate/Commercial: Kolkata
Band 1
About
Provided by Arka Majumdar
Practice Areas
Corporate and M&A, Private Equity & Venture Capital, Finance, Corporate Restructuring & Insolvency, Real Estate, Competition, Labour & Employment, Estate & Succession Planning.
Career
Arka’s experience of over a decade in corporate transactions is both rich and varied and encompasses mergers and acquisitions, private equity, corporate restructuring and general corporate. Arka has represented various multinationals, foreign investors and domestic entities in both primary and secondary investment. His deal repertoire includes various sectors such as steel, agriculture, pharmaceuticals and insurance.
Arka is also actively involved in the employment law vertical of the Firm and has rich and varied experience in advising various multinationals, foreign investors and domestic entities in employment and human resources issues, whether as part of a complex deal structure or on standalone advisory basis. Arka has also led a team in evaluating labour law compliances of large conglomerates. He also regularly advises his clients in structuring of stock option plans and setting up of employee welfare trusts.
His experience in complex transactions, coupled with excellent grasp of legal nuances, has made him sought after by his clients for coming up with innovative and practical solutions to intricate issues.
Apart from his expertise on general corporate laws, his experience in certain niche areas of laws such as real estate laws, has allowed him to offer develop result-oriented solutions to critical issues pertaining to different aspects of a transaction life-cycle.
Arka is also adept at tribunals/ courts based restructuring and has advised large conglomerates in their restructuring schemes.
Arka actively follows the ever-evolving jurisprudence relating to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 and takes keen interest in critically analysing the development of law in this field, with reference and comparison to the jurisprudence of countries having a matured bankruptcy regime. His understanding of the jurisprudence has helped him in successfully advising the entire gamut of stakeholders in a CIRP proceeding, be it Resolution Professionals, Committees of Creditors, or Resolution Applicants in all respect of the process of insolvency, revival and liquidation of companies.
Arka graduated in the year 2008 from the National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), Kolkata and has worked with Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co., before joining the Firm in 2012.
Professional Memberships
Member of the Corporate Governance Sub-Committee of CII Eastern Region.
Member of the CII Human Resource and Industrial Relations Sub-Committee in the Eastern Region.
Bar Council of West Bengal.
Chambers Review
Asia-Pacific
Arka Majumdar has experience in advising on corporate/commercial matters in the Kolkata market, such as M&A, financing and real estate, as well as acquisitions linked to insolvency processes.