AK & Partners gets two Partners; Sunetra Banerjee joins as Director

Siddhartha Patnaik and Shreyas Mehrotra have joined AK & Partners as Partners in the Infrastructure & Project Finance and Dispute Resolution practices respectively. Sunetra Banerjee has also joined the firm as a Director for its Banking & Project Finance practice..Patnaik is a 1998 graduate of Utkal University.He comes with over 22 years of experience in infrastructure, energy and project finance practice. He was formerly the Legal Head of Railway, Solar, Smart Infra & Arbitration practice at KEC Limited. .Mehrotra is a 2012 graduate of the Gujarat National Law University (GNLU), Gandhinagar.With over a decade of practice, he has been associated with AK & Partners as a Counsel for Dispute Resolution Practice and is now set to transit into the role of a full-time Partner for Dispute Resolution practice. .Banerjee specializes in Accounts & International Trades and comes with over 15 years of experience in banking & financial services.She joins the firm from ICICI Bank where she was the Regional Head. Prior to this, she has previously held leadership positions at YES Bank, Deutsche Bank, and Standard Chartered Bank. .Welcoming the new Partners and Director, the Founding Partner Kritika Krishnamurthy said, “The infrastructure sector is coming of age in India with digitised logistics, privatisation under Gati Shakti and innovations like battery storage, especially in the wake of lithium reserves found in Jammu and Kashmir. Siddharth has seen the entire gamut and will head our expansion in the area. Our strength in financial sector regulation means a natural progression in project finance and pre-insolvency turnarounds which shall be spearheaded by Sunetra. We have already done some noteworthy cases with Shreyas who was already onboard but we are happy to announce his new designation.”.If you would like your Deals, Columns, Press Releases to be published on Bar & Bench, please fill in the form available here.