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Kalpana Merchant

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AZB & Partners

Express Towers, 23rd Floor
Nariman Point
Mumbai – 400 021
India

Tel: (91 22) 6639 6880
Fax: (91 22) 6639 6888
kalpana.merchant@azbpartners.com


A qualified solicitor in India, Kalpana Merchant has been in the profession for over 20 years. Currently a partner with AZB & Partners, in Mumbai, India, Kalpana Merchant has years of legal experience in banking. She has been involved in securitisation and structured finance transactions (including, leveraged buyouts, asset backed, mortgage backed and collateralised debt obligation securitisation) as well as in the drafting and negotiation of various financing and acquisition documents including credit enhancement documents and documents related to securitisation and structured finance.

Kalpana has extensive experience in dealing with clients in the banking sector and has also advised her clients on derivatives transactions including International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) standard master agreements, syndicated loan agreements, external commercial borrowings, financing of ships, aircrafts, factoring and forfeiting transactions and security and surety arrangements. Kalpana also specialises in mergers and acquisitions and real estate.