Legacy of Excellence

Aniket Sengupta is a former Equity Partner at Luthra & Luthra Law Offices, specializing in general corporate and transactional advisory. His wealth of experience with complex transactions and multinational clients has earned him recognition as a leading lawyer by several global and domestic publications. His exemplary advisory services for clients in the Energy Industry, across practice areas such as Energy and infrastructure, Project development and Project finance earned him high regard from IFLR 1000. Asia Law recently ranked Aniket as a Distinguished Practitioner, especially for his expertise in Banking and Finance.

Aniket is law graduate from the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, India, having 24 years of extensive experience in commercial laws with primary focus on Banking & Finance, including project financing, corporate financing, loan syndication/consortium financing arrangements, cross-border financing, external commercial borrowings, debt restructuring and asset financing and leasing – acting for both lenders as well as for the borrowers and guarantors. He also has robust experience in the fields of commercial contracts, aviation laws and M&A/Private Equity transactions.

Aniket was an in-house counsel with Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Limited (IL&FS) Mumbai from 2000 to 2003 and subsequently joined as a Senior Associate with Luthra & Luthra in 2003. He was made Partner in 2008 at Luthra and Luthra Law Offices India, and remained at the helm of affairs for 16 years, also as an Equity Partner for nearly 3 years. During this term, he was responsible for the administration and promotion of the Bangalore and Mumbai office of Luthra and Luthra.

Some of his notable clients in the past include foreign banks and financial institutions such as Citibank, Nordbank, Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), US EXIM, UK Export Finance and Asian Development Bank. He has advised large domestic banks and financial institutions on their lending transactions, including State Bank of India, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, IndusInd Bank, IDFC, Power Finance Corporation, India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited, Bank of Baroda, Punjab National Bank, amongst many more. As Borrower’s counsel, he has regularly acted for Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited, Indian Oil Corporation Limited, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited, Oil India, Total Energies, Reliance (ADAG), IHB Limited, Alstom, DLF Ltd. and GVK group, amongst others.