Soumitra Majumdar

Soumitra specializes in Banking & Finance. He works closely with Indian and multinational banks, development financial institutions, commodity finance houses, non banking finance companies as well as corporates, for structuring, due diligence, documentation and negotiations, in relation to:

• Bilateral/ syndicated credit facilities to Indian borrowers, for capital expenditure, working capital, project financing and acquisition financing (on secured/ unsecured/ limited recourse basis).
• Guaranteed credit facilities to overseas subsidiaries of Indian entities, inter alia, for the purpose of overseas acquisitions and leveraged buy-outs.
• Cross border/ domestic structured finance and trade finance transactions.
• Strategies on enforcement of security interest, and (ix) corporate debt restructuring (statutory as well as contractual) and insolvency related matters.
• Issuance of non- convertible bonds (on private placement basis).
• Advisory memos on banking products.
• Structuring and implementing debt and quasi-debt transactions compliant with Indian exchange control and banking regulations.
• Debt restructuring and insolvencies.

• Advised Goldman Sachs in relation to facilities lent to major Indian NBFC against the security of financial assets;
• Advised ADB in relation to a secured facility extended to Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Limited, for financing low- cost affordable housing units;
• Advised FMO in several debt investments, and sell-down transactions, including in National Collateral Management Limited, Sahyadri Farmers Producer Co. Ltd., Alok Industries Limited, Usher Agro Limited and Usher Eco Power Ltd.;
• Advised BII (formerly CDC Group Plc) in relation its subscription to INR bonds issued by Aavas Financiers Ltd. & Cholamandalam Investment & Finance Company Limited;
• Advised State Bank of India and Union Bank of India in relation to a secured term loan facility to IRB MP Expressway Private Limited for financing the operations and maintenance of Mumbai- Pune Expressway;

• B.A. LL.B (Hons), West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (2007)