Indranil Deshmukh

Practice Areas

Indranil Deshmukh

Partner (Head-Disputes)

Dispute Resolution

Indranil Deshmukh is a partner in the dispute resolution practice with experience of 20 years. He heads the Disputes Practice and has extensive experience in a wide range of disputes relating to commercial contracts, shareholder disputes, corporate insolvency, construction contracts, media rights contracts, etc, His dispute resolution experience is diversified across various sectors including construction, sports, manufacturing, securities and financial regulation, health, local government, planning and environment and public sector projects.

Experience Profile:

 He has been involved in many high profile and precedent setting litigations in domestic as well as cross border disputes.

 He has been involved in high value and complex construction arbitrations in the oil and gas and power sectors for major EPC contractors and employers.

 He has represented the BCCI in many high value domestic and international arbitrations involving franchise agreements and media rights agreements in relation to the Indian Premier League.

 He has acted for foreign banks and financial institutions in many enforcement actions in India arising from a structured transactions involving cross border funding received by Indian companies both in the form of debt and equity.

 He has been involved in many cross border and domestic shareholder disputes including those involving oppression and mismanagement and arbitrations across various sectors.

 He has acted in various writ petitions and public interest litigations in relation to environment pollution, tenders for public procurement, construction/infrastructure projects etc.

 He regularly advises clients both Indian and multi-national in connection with regulatory disputes arising from securities, foreign exchange and development control.

Professional Memberships

Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa, India

Publications

• Revised threshold of Rs. 1000 Crore for ‘material’ RPTs under LODR – Does it pass the Article 14 test?- https://corporate.cyrilamarchandblogs.com/2022/04/revised-threshold-of-rs-1000-crore-for-material-rpts-under-lodr-does-it-pass-the-article-14-test/#:~:text=Article%2014%20Test%3F-,Revised,-threshold%20of%20Rs April 7, 2022

• CASH ONLY’ to dissenting financial creditors – Supreme Court in Jaypee- https://corporate.cyrilamarchandblogs.com/2021/04/cash-only-to-dissenting-financial-creditors-supreme-court-in-jaypee/ April 19, 2021

• Avitel v. HSBC – Finality on the Question of Arbitrability when Allegations of Fraud are Raised SMM- https://corporate.cyrilamarchandblogs.com/2020/08/avitel-v-hsbc-finality-on-the-question-of-arbitrability-when-allegations-of-fraud-are-raised-smm/ August 28, 2020

• Supreme Court to have its say on legality of Fantasy Sports- https://corporate.cyrilamarchandblogs.com/2020/05/supreme-court-to-have-its-say-on-legality-of-fantasy-sports/ May 21, 2020

• The Pursuit of Enforcement – Can the Corporate Cloaks be Unravelled?- https://corporate.cyrilamarchandblogs.com/2020/05/pursuit-of-enforcement-can-the-corporate-cloaks-be-unravelled/ May 19, 2020

• Summary Judgment under the Commercial Courts Act, 2015 – An Underutilized Tool in Contractual Disputes- https://corporate.cyrilamarchandblogs.com/2020/05/summary-judgment-under-the-commercial-courts-act-2015-an-underutilized-tool-in-contractual-disputes/ May 18, 2020

• Good Faith Negotiations and Mediation: A Missed Opportunity So Far https://corporate.cyrilamarchandblogs.com/2019/11/good-faith-negotiations-mediation-missed-opportunity-so-far/ November 28, 2019

• Put-option Holders: Financial Creditors Under the IBC?- https://corporate.cyrilamarchandblogs.com/2019/11/put-option-holders-financial-creditors-under-the-ibc/ November 14, 2019

• Put option Holders: Financial Creditors under the IBC? – Part 2- https://corporate.cyrilamarchandblogs.com/2020/04/put-option-holders-financial-creditors-under-the-ibc-part-2/ November 14, 2019

• Takeover Rules for Unlisted Companies: Minority Squeeze Outs Under Section 230(11) of the Companies Act, 2013- https://corporate.cyrilamarchandblogs.com/2020/03/takeover-rules-for-unlisted-companies-minority-squeeze-outs-under-section-23011-of-the-companies-act-20 March 31, 2020

• Arbitrator Fees in India: In a Fix?- https://corporate.cyrilamarchandblogs.com/2019/10/arbitrator-fees-in-india/ October 1, 2019

• Specific Relief (Amendment) Act, 2018: Prospective or Retrospective?- https://corporate.cyrilamarchandblogs.com/2018/09/specific-relief-amendment-act-2018-prospective-retrospective/ September 12, 2018

• Fugitive Economic Offenders Ordinance, 2018: Impact on Creditor Rights- https://corporate.cyrilamarchandblogs.com/2018/08/fugitive-economic-offenders-ordinance-2018-impact-creditor-rights/ August 1, 2018

• Innoventive Industries Limited v. ICICI Bank Limited: Paradigm Shift in Insolvency Law in India- https://corporate.cyrilamarchandblogs.com/2017/09/innoventive-industries-limited-v-icici-bank-limited-paradigm-shift-insolvency-law-india/ September 1, 2017

• NCLAT Defines the Scope and Extent of the Corporate Debtor’s Right to Contest Admission of Insolvency Applications Filed by Financial Creditors- https://corporate.cyrilamarchandblogs.com/2017/05/nclat-defines-scope-extent-corporate-debtors-right-contest-admission-insolvency-applications-filed-financial-creditors/ May 22, 2017

• Exclusion of Time Spent in Pre-arbitration Negotiations/Settlement Discussions: A Much Needed Carve Out- https://corporate.cyrilamarchandblogs.com/2019/12/exclusion-time-spent-prearbitration-negotiations-settlement-discussions/ December 10, 2019

• Supreme Court’s judgment in Vijay Karia v. Prysmian Cavi e Sistemi S.r.l.: Impact on challenges to awards passed in International Commercial Arbitrations conducted in India- https://corporate.cyrilamarchandblogs.com/2020/06/impact-on-challenges-to-awards-passed-in-international-commercial-arbitrations/ June 23, 2020