Bio

Tirthankar Datta specialises in banking & finance, financial services, mergers & acquisitions and cross border investments. He has extensive experience in structured debt transactions including all manner of finance related transactions (secured, limited recourse and syndicated), project finance, acquisition finance, structured finance, real estate financing, listed and unlisted corporate bonds / non-convertible debentures (private placement), insolvency and debt restructuring and other general banking and fintech products. In addition, he has extensive experience in real estate financing including both construction finance as well as lease rental discounting facilities, in the residential, commercial and retail sectors as well as lending to financial institutions (such as non-banking finance companies), debt capital markets, leverage finance and acquisition finance transactions. He regularly advises clients on Indian law and regulatory issues relating to equity and debt financing transactions and acquisitions including on issues concerning exchange control regulations and securities regulations . He has been practicing law since 2008. Before joining JSA, he worked for eight years with Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (earlier Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co.), another law firm in India. He has been recognised as a “Leading Lawyer: Rising Star” in Banking and Finance by IFLR 1000 (2019 & 2020) and has been recognized in the influential bi-annual RSG India Report 2019 for Capital Markets and Corporate practice areas as a recommended individual lawyer of the firm from client reviews.