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Akshita Pandit

Associate

Email

akshita.pandit@aoshearman.com

Phone

+44 20 3088 1745

Offices

London

V-CARD
Akshita advises on a wide range of restructuring and insolvency matters and has worked on a variety of cross-border transactions and distressed investments.

Her clients include distressed debt funds, banks, large corporates and other international financial institutions. During her time at the firm, Akshita has completed a secondment in the firm's Dubai office.

Akshita is a dual qualified lawyer. She is admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales and as an advocate in India.

 

Expertise

Experience

Representative matters

  • The Vroon Group, a Dutch shipping company, on all aspects of its restructuring primarily in England and The Netherlands. This restructuring was the first successful implementation of a parallel English scheme of arrangement and Dutch WHOA proceedings.
  • The senior secured lenders of Swedish oil manufacturer Nynas AB since 2020 on various matters including the successful consensual restructuring of the Group’s EUR1.5bn debt and a holistic refinancing of its debt structure.
  • The secured lenders (comprising of a number of debt funds) of a £600m revolving facility of intu Properties in all aspects of the administration proceedings of intu, including enforcement of security.
  • An ad hoc group of lenders of £850m credit facilities of the Thomas Cook group in the ongoing liquidation proceedings.

Pro bono

  • Volunteered at the Make A Wish Foundation of India, a charity aimed at providing support and care to underprivileged and terminally ill children in November 2013.
  • Advising with Refugee Legal Support, a human rights charity, in relation to their Family Reunion from Europe project aimed at reuniting applicants in Greece with their family members in the UK.

Published Work

  • Jennifer Marshall, Lucy Grey, Akshita Pandit and others, (2022) “Rent arbitration and the UK restructuring toolkit”, Herstructurering & Recovery Online

Leadership Positions And Professional Affiliations

  • Law Society of England and Wales
  • Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa, India

Qualifications

Admissions

Admitted as a Solicitor (England and Wales), 2021

Admitted as an Advocate (High Court of Bombay, India), 2018

Academic

B.A., LL.B (Hons), NALSAR University of Law, 2018

Languages

English, Hindi
Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.