Veena Sivaramakrishnan

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Partner

Veena Sivaramakrishnan is a key Partner in the Firm’s Banking and Finance and Insolvency and Bankruptcy Practice with over 16 years of experience.

Veena has significant experience in Banking, Financial Services Regulatory, Financing, Derivatives, Insolvency, Bankruptcy and Restructuring. Veena has been a part of many “firsts” for her area of practice, by either being involved in the mandate or by advising the industry on such a transaction. These transactions include the NBFC merger of Capital First and IDFC Bank, first successful debt and equity restructuring under the SDR regime of RBI, involving the sale of Hyatt Hotels Pune to SAMHI group, legal validity to OTC derivatives under Indian laws and the introduction of Credit Derivatives, successful restructuring of sale of Leela  Hotels to Brookfield, issuance of the first partly paid NCD structure, winding down of regulated entities such as banks and NBFCs in India, setting up of a special liquidity trust under the directions of the Government, to cater to COVID-19 related defaults and asset monetisation structures for easing liquidity to NBFCs, etc.

Clients praise Veena for her ‘firm grasp of banking as well as applicable regulations’ with her vast experience in derivatives is highly valued. She has the ability to ‘provide commercial inputs over and above the legal advice’ and to ‘offer alternative solutions’. Clients describe her as ‘proactive, approachable, responsive and timely, good technical skills, very professional, very sharp and relationship driven.’

Veena has worked at Juris Corp for over a decade across varied areas of practice impacting banks and financial institutions and at ICICI Bank mainly for its offshore operations. While at ICICI, she was based in Canada and worked in setting up the wealth management subsidiary, and worked with Davis Polk and Wardwell in New York on secondment primarily to set up the New York branch of ICICI.

Professional Memberships

  • Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa

Education

  • B.A. B.L, (Hons.), National Academy of Legal Studies and Research, Hyderabad

 

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