Bahram N. Vakil, Co–Founder of AZB & Partners is amongst India’s foremost restructuring, bankruptcy, infrastructure, and project finance attorneys. As part of his experience in restructuring and bankruptcy law, Mr. Vakil has advised several distressed funds, insolvency professionals, domestic and international banks, including the large, stressed accounts referred to insolvency resolution by the RBI.

He has served on various high–level government committees on financial reform, foreign direct investment and securities market reform. Mr. Vakil was appointed as a key member of the Dr. T K Viswanathan Committee on Bankruptcy Law Reforms, constituted by the Ministry of Finance, Government of India, to draft the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (“IBC”). He is also a member of the Insolvency Law Amendment Committee, constituted by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs to recommend amendments to the IBC. He is also the first Indian lawyer to be invited to serve as a member of the International Insolvency Institute (III).

Additionally, Mr. Vakil has served on the following committees: (i) Member of the Task Force on the Development of Secondary Market for Corporate Loans set up by the RBI; (ii) the Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Committee – SEBI Advisory Group and (iii) the U.K. Sinha Committee – Working Group on Foreign Investment in India.

Mr. Vakil has been recognized for his expertise by an array of international publications. The 2017 RSG India Report recommended Bahram for Infrastructure, Banking, Finance and Project Finance. He has been ranked an ‘Eminent Practitioner’ (2018 & 2019) and Band 1 (2011 – 2017) for Banking & Finance by Chambers Global; an ‘Eminent Practitioner’ (2018 & 2019) and Band 1 (2012 – 2017) for Banking & Finance; and recognized for Corporate/M&A (2012 – 2015) by Chambers Asia–Pacific.

He has a LLM from the Columbia University and is dually qualified to practice law in India and New York.