Kannan Rahul

Our Banking and Finance practice’s reputation as a market leader has been built on the foundation of an intuitive commercial understanding of what our clients want to achieve, the quality of our documentation, and our ability to competently deliver the right outcomes within tight timeframes.

Our Partners regularly advise clients on established as well as emerging products in a dynamic legal and regulatory environment. We provide a focused, pragmatic approach, with fee transparency, and highly effective, technology-driven transaction management.

We represent lenders and borrowers across a wide spectrum covering sponsors and corporates. Our key clients include:

• Major domestic banks such as ICICI Bank, State Bank of India and Axis Bank
• Foreign banks such as Standard Chartered Bank, Deutsche Bank, Citibank, Barclays, Nomura and Rabobank
• Multilateral agencies such as IFC, US Exim Bank, and UK’s CDC Group
• Sponsors such as Brookfield and Blackstone
• Non-banking financial companies and offshore credit funds such as Edelweiss, SSG, Piramal Capital and Housing Finance, KKR, and Värde Partners

We work on a range of domestic and cross border structured financing transactions with varied complexity, covering acquisition finance, project finance, private DCM, securitisation, and debt restructuring. This includes distressed investments, enforcement and winding up, advisory, regulatory, and mergers and acquisitions in the financial services sector.

Trilegal is one of India’s leading law firms with offices in four of India’s major cities – Bengaluru, Delhi, Gurugram and Mumbai. It represents clients on a large number of the most complex and high-value transactions in India. Most of its key practices have won top industry awards and accolades.

The firm believes that it is the combination of its culture, depth of transactional experience, a wide range of expertise and the quality and energy of its lawyers, that allows it to offer a level of client service that is unique in the Indian legal market. Its lawyers are trained to take a commercial perspective of the issues that its clients face with a solution-oriented approach.

Trilegal’s areas of expertise include corporate – mergers and acquisitions; strategic alliances and joint ventures; private equity and venture capital; energy and infrastructure; banking and finance; restructuring; capital markets; telecoms, media and technology; dispute resolution; regulatory; competition law; labour and employment; real estate; and taxation. Its client roster includes many of the world’s leading corporations, funds, banks, and financial institutions.