Mr Nilang T Desai

Bio:

Nilang Desai is a senior partner at AZB & Partners, one of India's leading law firms. He specialises in restructuring & insolvency and structured finance matters.

His practice focuses on a range of domestic and international business reorganisation and restructuring matters having acted on many market firsts in this space. Nilang also represents banks, financial institutions, multilateral and bilateral institutions as well as borrowers in connection with Indian and offshore structured debt transactions. With extensive cross–border experience, Nilang and the market-leading team at AZB have led highly complex structuring deals in collaboration with international teams.

He holds a Bachelors of Law from King’s College London, qualified as a Solicitor in England and Wales, is an Indian advocate and has qualified as a chartered accountant.

Policy & Development Contributions:

• Member of Working Group to propose the best practices for Insolvency Professional Entities registered as Insolvency Professionals, constituted by the Insolvency Law Academy (2023)
• Invitee to the Manoharan Committee of the RBI on revitalizing the secondary debt trading market
• Participant in the Insolvency Law Committee constituted by the Ministry of Corporate Affair (2018-2023)
• Participant in the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India Committee on Prepacks under IBC (2019)
• Participant in various RBI roundtables on the IBC
• Vice President and Executive Committee Member of Insol India