Debashree Dutta is a Partner in the Firm’s Projects & Project Finance practice and has extensive experience in acting for both lenders and borrowers across a wide range of debt financing practice areas.

Debashree specialises in project & infrastructure finance focusing on power, renewables and road projects, general corporate lending (both external commercial borrowings and domestic syndicated and bilateral loans), leveraged & acquisition finance, structured finance, real estate finance,  factoring & securitisation,  and corporate debt restructuring & insolvency. She also frequently deals with banking regulatory and advisory matters and mergers and acquisitions of entities in financial services sector.

Debashree has represented a range of banks and financial institutions including State Bank of India, Deutsche Bank, YES Bank, Axis Bank, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Barclays Bank, LBBW, Wells Fargo, Standard Chartered Bank, ADB, JBIC, KfW, IFC, Citibank, HSBC and Credit Suisse as well as large corporates in India like the Tata Group, Aditya Birla Group, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited on a wide variety of project financing transactions.

Before joining the Firm, Debashree has worked at AZB & Partners and ICICI Bank Limited.

Select Experience Statement

• Torrent Power Limited in relation to issuance of 1000 listed non-convertible debentures for USD 13.3 million approx.
• Consortium of lenders led by State Bank of India in relation to financial assistances aggregating to INR 4950 crore provided to JSW Steel Limited for the expansion of capacity at the steel plant in Dolvi Works, Raigad Maharashtra.
• Consortium of lenders led by State Bank of India in relation to financial assistances aggregating to INR 6500 crore provided to Mumbai Pune Expressway Limited (a Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation Limited group company) for the acquisition of toll-collection rights on the Mumbai Pune section of National Highway -4 and certain sections of the Mumbai Pune Expressway.
• Dena Bank in relation to the merger of Dena Bank and Vijaya Bank with Bank of Baroda as per the scheme of amalgamation approved by the central government.
• Indusind Bank Limited in relation to financial assistances aggregating to INR 2600 crore provided to a special purpose vehicle of JSW Steel Limited and AION Partners for the acquisition of Monnet Ispat and Energy Limited pursuant to a resolution plan formulated under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016. The transaction structure involved a subsequent merger of the special purpose vehicle into Monnet Ispat and Energy Limited.

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Professional Memberships

• Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa

Education

• B.S.L. LL.B, ILS Law College, Pune
• Master in Law and Finance, Oxford University, United Kingdom