Professor Jayadev is tenured faculty of IIM Bangalore, his area of interests is Banking, Corporate finance, and risk management. He worked on funded research projects such as “Educational Loans”, “Debt, Defaults and Corporate governance”, “Basel-II and Credit Risk” and “Mergers and Acquisitions in Banks”, “Corporate Governance-Post IBC” and “Bankruptcy Prediction” Jayadev extended consultancy services to Wipro Limited and Accenture on Basel II and III, Risk and Compliance. His corporate leadership positions include Board member of Union Bank of India, Chairman and Board of Directors of BGSE Financials Limited and on the board of a few start-up ventures.
Jayadev structured and delivered customized senior executive management programs for several reputed companies- L&T, Tata Motors, Kotak Mahindra Bank, HDFC bank, HSBC, SBI, Syndicate Bank, Canara bank, Ordinance Factories Board (OFB), Karur Vysya Bank, Philips Lighting, Persistent Systems, Exide Insurance among others. Jayadev is one of the study team members contributed to Colloquium on “Functioning and strengthening of IBC November 2022” and made presentation on Data Driven Research to improve the outcomes of IBC to the “Colloquium NCLT members March 2023”
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Mr. Samir Chawla has over 28 years of professional experience in high-yield assets and special situations, turn-arounds, project finance and development, structured debt, and trading in debt instruments. He has worked with some of the leading banks, financial institutions, and an asset reconstruction company in India in various senior positions. During his stint with the asset reconstruction company, Samir led numerous transactions in corporate insolvency and resolution process of the IBC, both on the “buy side” (as resolution applicant) as well as the “sell side” (as a lender and part of the committee of creditors). He was involved with the successful bidding and conclusion of one of the largest transactions under the IBC.
Samir holds a PGDM from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and a B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He is currently pursuing the Executive Fellow Programme in Management at Indian School of Business Hyderabad.
Samir was adjunct faculty at IIM Lucknow. He has trained senior executives of top corporate firms.
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Other Programme Faculty:
Mr Satish Kumar Gupta specializes in distressed and special situation investments. He has been a stressed assets and banking expert with large banks, and top asset reconstruction companies for over two decades. Satish has been closely involved in investment, turnaround, and resolution of numerous stressed loans. He advises a large set of players in distressed debt space on acquisition, monitoring, and resolution of special situations.
Satish is also an insolvency professional registered with Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India. He successfully led the corporate insolvency resolution process of Essar Steel India Ltd (ESIL) as its Resolution Professional. ESIL was a complex and one of the largest cases to be successfully resolved under the IBC; ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steel producer, was the successful resolution application and took over the company as its new promoter.
In October 2020, Turnaround Management Association (TMA), USA awarded Satish the “TMA 2020 Mega Company Turnaround” award for the year 2020 in the Mega company category with annual revenue of more than USD 1 billion in recognition of the successful turnaround and resolution of Essar Steel India Limited.
Satish is a member of Indian Bank Association’s (IBA) Sub-Committee on Stressed Assets. He is a regular speaker and writer on insolvency, turnaround, and restructuring themes. Satish has a master’s degree in business management from XLRI, Jamshedpur and a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi University.
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Mr. Aashit Shah is an equity partner at J. Sagar Associates and chairs the Finance Practice at the firm. He has more than 21 years of experience and specialises in banking & finance, debt restructuring and insolvency, mergers & acquisitions, private equity and investment funds.
Aashit has been actively involved in various debt restructuring schemes and corporate insolvency resolution processes under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016. He has advised resolution professionals, individual creditors, creditors’ committees, potential bidders or lenders to potential bidders in some of the largest insolvencies and debt restructuring exercises in India, including Essar Steel, Bhushan Steel, Sintex Industries, Altico Capital, Reliance Capital, Shapoorji Pallonji, Ruchi Soya, Ricoh India, Meenakshi Energy, Ushdev International and United Seamless.
Aashit has been recognised as a leading lawyer and distinguished practitioner in the banking and finance practice and insolvency practice by international publications such as IFLR, Chambers and Partners Global, Chambers and Partners Asia Pacific, Legal 500, AsiaLaw, Who’s Who Legal and Legal Era.
He was recognised amongst:
India’s Super 50 Lawyers in 2022 by the Asia Legal Business
India’s Top 100 Lawyers (A List) in 2022 by India Business Law Journal
India’s Top 100 Lawyers in 2022 by Forbes.
He also received the Banking and Finance Lawyer of the Year 2020 award for India by IFLR 1000.
Aashit holds a B.L.S. LL.B. degree from Government Law College, Mumbai and an LLM degree in International and Comparative Law from Chicago-Kent College of Law, USA. He is also qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales, and a member of INSOL International.