Pranav Sharma

He is qualified to practice both Indian and English law and has worked on a very wide range of banking and finance transactions across various offshore jurisdictions besides India. Pranav worked for over 6 years in the Banking group at Linklaters LLP in London. He has advised banks and non-bank lenders, multilateral institutions, export credit agencies, sovereigns and governmental agencies, state-owned enterprises, companies and private equity sponsors across a vast spectrum of financings – both in India and abroad.

Pranav has in-depth experience across acquisition finance, commodity or receivables backed finance, ECA backed finance, real estate finance, securitisations and structured and trade finance besides advising banks and non-bank financial institutions on a range of regulatory matters. He has acted on several first of their kind transactions or award-winning deals in India.

He has acted for lenders or creditors (both domestic and foreign) as well as the sponsors and the project company on project financings including the roads and highways, power, telecommunications, hotel and steel sectors in India.

Pranav has extensive experience in international as well as domestic debt securities offerings by Indian companies – both public as well as privately placed issuances, and restructurings of such issuances. Besides advising on several issuances of Rupee and USD denominated bonds, he has also acted for the lead manager(s) or the issuer company in several offerings of foreign currency convertible bonds (FCCBs) and global depositary receipts (GDRs).

• • • First ever issuance of listed debt securities by the first REIT in India – issue of listed debentures by Embassy Office Parks REIT.
    • The financing and other banking related aspects for the acquisition of One BKC project by Blackstone.
    • First ever margin loan backed by units of a REIT in India – offshore financing raised by certain Blackstone entities that are part of the sponsor group of Embassy Office Parks REIT.
    • Several inventory backed and receivables backed financings for KKR RE NBFC.
    • Regularly act for both ADB and IFC for their debt investments in India.

• • • • • Solicitor, England & Wales
        • Bar Council of Delhi, India.

• • • Recognised in ‘Band 2’ for Banking & Finance and in ‘Band 3’ for Capital Markets: Debt, Chambers and Partners Asia Pacific
    • ‘Notable Practitioner’ in Banking & Finance, AsiaLaw
    • ‘Highly Regarded’, IFLR 1000
    • ‘Recommended for Banking & Finance’, Legal 500.