SKR & Partners

India

Analysis

Overview

SKR & Partners will celebrate its 20th anniversary next year. The full-service firm was established by Santosh Kumar Ray and it has offices in Kolkata, Mumbai and Delhi. The firm has offerings in regulatory, advisory and dispute resolution, and makes its debut in the rankings for restructuring and insolvency, and dispute resolution. The firm has been very active on contentious insolvency matters in the past year. Other key contacts at the firm include partners Chetana Lal, Rituparna Sanyal and Akash Tandon.

Dispute resolution

Work highlights

Assisted the State Bank of India on the maintainability of the CIRP against the main corporate debtor.

Represented the Bank of Baroda in matter against the legal heir of a personal guarantor. This case saw the NCLT considering the issue of whether an application under Section 95 of IBC is maintainable against legal heirs of personal guarantor for the first time and gave clarity to this issue.

Advised the Central Bank of India, UCO Bank and Textile Solutions, in their separate applications against corporate debtors.