Devidas Banerji (pictured) joins Khaitan & Co as a Partner, for Banking & Finance at their Mumbai office.

Rabindra Jhunjhunwala quoted, “We are delighted to have Devidas join the firm. This is our second international lateral hire in this practice (Banking and Finance) group. He brings with him international experience and along with Shishir Mehta will be located in the Mumbai office. Within a short period of time we have created a formidable banking and finance practice out of the Mumbai office”.

Devidas is a law graduate from Symbiosis, Pune batch of 2001. He completed his LL.M. in 2002 from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. He is enrolled as an Advocate with the Bar Council of West Bengal and is a qualified Solicitor of England and Wales.

Devidas started his career as a trainee at the London offices of Clifford Chance  LLP and qualified as an associate in the asset finance group in 2004, where he represented  sponsors, banks, aircraft manufacturers and corporate in a myriad of cross border and structured financing transactions. During his tenure in London, he successfully completed a secondment with a leading investment bank in London, where he was part of a specialised finance team with particular focus on Indian transactions.

In 2007, Devidas moved to the general Banking & Finance team at Clifford Chance, Singapore where he specialised in a variety of banking transactions, including several major acquisitions and leveraged financings in Asia. In Singapore, he regularly represented leading financial institutions, corporations and sponsors in negotiating and documenting complex financings and advising them on syndicated lending transactions, intercreditor and subordination issues, guarantees, securities, insolvency and other aspects of international financing transactions.

Devidas is the second international lateral hire after Shishir Mehta who was formerly with White & Case’s New York offices and currently heads Khiatan's Banking & Finance practice from Mumbai.