Corporate Restructuring
& Insolvency

Our Team at J&M Legal has been actively involved in advising clients on, and devising novel structures and solutions for businesses across India, and abroad in their attempts to restructure, expand, diversify, and consolidate. We have advised and acted for on various issues involving mergers and acquisitions, demergers, amalgamations and other forms of restructuring.

Our firm has substantial experience in complex, multi-jurisdictional, inbound and outbound mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, and possesses a deep understanding of regulatory issues in corporate law that enables us to structure a successful transaction.

Our expertise in this area includes assisting in providing the choice of transaction, investments, jurisdictions, moulding unique schemes and solutions within the framework of the laws, including the Companies Act, 2013 and IBC, and representing clients in the Court approval processes for such proposals. Our firm, while advising comprehensively on structuring such transactions, also advices on aspects such as FEMA, taxation and industry specific implications for the restructuring in question.

Further, our Team has been handling numerous cases arising under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, representing both creditors, debtors as well as insolvency professionals before various company law and appellate tribunals. The Team has represented creditors in various sectors inter alia, such as power and energy, heavy industries, financial sector, logistics and pharmaceuticals. In particular, the Team has advised corporate applicants interested in acquiring distressed businesses and assets through the IBC framework; and on various issues that arise as a result of the interplay between IBC and other applicable laws. The team has also handled complex matters relating to preferential, fraudulent, undervalued and extortionate transactions with a strategic combination of advisory and litigation services.

Having successfully completed the restructuring of several medium & large corporate groups, and represented them in proceedings before the High Courts, the NCLT, DRT & DRAT, we are well positioned to assist companies in their unique challenges, as they navigate the requirements of restructuring. We represent lenders and investors on a wide range of issues including exit strategies, refinancing, debt restructuring, distressed debt trading and investment in distressed assets.