Gaurav Gupte
Asia-Pacific Guide 2024
Band 4 : Restructuring/Insolvency
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About
Provided by Gaurav Gupte
Practice Areas
Gaurav Gupte
Partner
Restructuring & Insolvency; Capital Markets
Gaurav advises creditors, office bearers (resolution professionals and liquidators), acquirers and debtors in insolvency resolution processes, liquidations and out-of-court debt restructuring transactions. He has advised distressed debt investors on debt aggregation and restructuring. Gaurav also has extensive experience in advising clients in the financial services sector on regulatory matters and in capital markets transactions.
Gaurav was a visiting faculty member at the National Law School of India University where he offered an elective course on “Restructuring and Insolvency Resolution of Companies in India”
Relevant Experience:
• Advised the creditors led by IDBI Bank in the corporate insolvency resolution process of JBF Petrochemicals Limited
• Advising the creditors of an infrastructure company in the out-of-court restructuring of its debt.
• Advising the resolution professional of OGD Services Limited
• Advising an asset reconstruction company on the aggregation and subsequent restructuring of debt
• Advised Deccan Value Investors L.P. and DVI PE (Mauritius) Limited in their acquisition of Amtek Auto Limited and Castex Technologies Limited
• Advising leading banks on the issue of capital bonds and other instruments
Professional Memberships
Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa, India
Publications
• Viswanathan L., and Gupte, G., “Schemes of Arrangement: A Second Chance for ‘Resolution’ of Indian Companies in Liquidation” in Volume 16, Issue 6 International Corporate Rescue (2019)
• Viswanathan L., and Gupte, G., “Vertical and Horizontal Equity in Corporate Processes” published in “Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code: A Miscellany of Perspectives” (2019) by the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India
Education
B.A. LL.B (Hons), National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, 2005
Awards
Ranked ‘Band 4’ for Restructuring /Insolvency in India
Chambers and Partners 2024- 2022
Ranked ‘Highly Regarded’ for Capital Markets: Structured Finance and securitisation ; M&A
IFLR1000 2023- 2019
Ranked ‘GENNEXT LEADING LAWYERS’ for Restructuring /Insolvency
Legal Era Rankings
2023
Ranked ‘Band 4’ for Capital Markets in India
Chambers and Partners 2020- 2019
Ranked “Recommended Lawyer’’ for Restructuring & Insolvency
Legal500, 2022- 2020
Chambers Review
Asia-Pacific
Gaurav Gupte is based in Mumbai. He is well versed in advising corporate clients and lenders on corporate insolvency resolution processes under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, including negotiating resolution plans.