Bio

Ryna Karani is an equity partner of the Firm. When Ryna joined ALMT Legal in November 2006 she bought with her a wealth of experience and expertise to the Firm. Ryna heads the banking & finance team in the Firm which includes advising on both rupee loans and external commercial borrowings, structured finance, restructuring, consortium finance, project finance, including drafting and negotiating the agreements, security and other related documents on a full range of finance transactions including cross border transactions. Ryna is also a trained corporate/commercial lawyer and has vast experience in advising clients on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity and investment funds. She advises clients on a full range of corporate transactions including cross border transactions. She has assisted several international clients in establishing their presence in India either as wholly owned subsidiaries, joint ventures, branch or representative offices. Ryna advises on a variety of property related cases and transactions. She has represented several large corporate houses, banks, financial institutions, and high net worth individuals in various real estate transactions which include sale deeds, development agreements, detailed title verifications (also for private equity and investor charts in real estate). Besides her corporate practice, Ryna advises clients on infrastructure projects including submission and preparation of RFPs, finalizing tenders, drafting and/or negotiating concession agreements and related documents. She also advises on general corporate matters, commercial contracts and real estate matters. For some time now Ryna has been involved in a variety of insolvency matters and is jointly developing and growing the Firm’s insolvency practice. Asia Pacific Legal 500 has recommended Ryna for Banking & Finance and Real Estate and recognised Ryna as ‘Other key lawyer’ for her corporate M&A practice. Chambers & Partners has ranked Ryna for Corporate/M&A. IFLR1000 recognises Ryna as ‘Highly Regarded Lawyer’ for Banking, Private Equity, M&A and Real Estate Acquisitions in its 2021 and 2020 Edition.