Soummo Biswas

Soummo Biswas is a Partner at the Firm and focuses on Banking & Structured Finance and Debt Capital Markets.

Soummo has significant experience in the financing space which covers, inter alia, banking, banking advisory, structured finance, leveraged finance, real estate and infrastructure / utilities financing, stressed and non-stressed restructuring and debt capital markets (public issue/private placement), each domestically and internationally. Legal 500 in its rankings has referred to him as a partner who “attracts praise for his great understanding of sector nuances and expertise in handling complex transactions”.

Soummo has advised various Indian banks, corporates, financial institutions, funds and investors on private placement (listed and unlisted) and public issue of debenture and on bilateral, syndicated and consortium facilities in INR and foreign currency. He has been involved in several marquee transactions in the debt space including the first few debt issuances under the shelf-tranche construct. He also has a lot of experience in financial regulations both in the banking and the non-banking space including advising several domestic and international banks and financial institutions such as SBI, IDBI Bank and BNP Paribas in raising regulatory capital. He advised International Finance Corporation in its maiden issue of “Maharajah Bonds” and “Masala Bonds” and JSW and Lodha in their high yield bond issuance. Recently he has advised Piramal on the biggest real estate financing deal. He also regularly advises Indian banks, corporates and financial institutions on their foreign currency and rupee denominated bond issuances.