S.L. Gupta

Mr. S.L. Gupta, the founding and managing partner, is a renowned lawyer with an experience of more than 40 years. He specializes in areas of Commercial and Bankruptcy Laws, Project Financing, Banking and Recovery Litigation, Corporate & Financial Restructuring, Infrastructure Projects, Capital Markets, Arbitration including International Commercial Arbitrations, Aviation, Private Client Practice, Business Restructuring, Employment and other Service matters, Real Estate and Hospitality Projects.

Closely connected to Banking industry, Mr. Gupta has spent almost 4 decades representing and guiding clients, negotiating, drafting loan and security documents for various banks and NBFCs. He has represented his clients in highly prestigious litigations and various high-profile matters in all the Courts and Tribunals in and around Delhi in the matters involving complicated commercial transactions which are reported in the reputed journals of India. He has been appearing in numerous significant matters involving high stakes in Supreme Court of India, various High Courts across the nation, Debt Recovery Appellate Tribunal, Debt Recovery Tribunal, National Company Law Appellate Tribunal, National Company Law Tribunal, Appellate Tribunal PMLA, Adjudicating Authority PMLA, Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal, National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission and other judicial and quasi-judicial authorities.

Mr. Gupta has been advising clients on the structure of financing (including security package for lending transactions). He has advised various overseas banks, including foreign branches of Indian banks as well as international banks/financial institutions, on various matters that include enforcement actions to steps taken before the Indian courts. He has handled various banking transactions for Indian and Multinational banks.

Mr. Gupta first promoted Vats, Gupta & Co. in the year 1991; the said firm was dissolved in the year 2007 and he promoted SL Gupta & Partners with new set of partners. Bhattal Law Attorneys LLP was incorporated in the year 2018 which took over the establishment and practice of SL Gupta & Partners.

Great minds like his are crucial in today’s era where so many complexities and ambiguities have surrounded the position of the start-ups as well as the corporates with high turnovers. With the vision of making the bank employees aware about the legality in today’s era and in the time of growing number of wilful defaulters and fugitive economic offenders, Mr. Gupta has been invited to head the chair at prestigious forums/colleges to deliver lectures and also have been invited by various moderators to present webinars on various legal aspects.