Harry Chawla

Managing Partner

Qualifications

  • B.Sc. – Kurukshetra University
  • LLB. – Kurukshetra University

Bar Enrollment

  • Bar Council of Delhi

Bar Membership

  • Delhi High Court Bar Association
  • Inter-Pacific Bar Association

Overview

Harry Chawla has extensive experience in the areas of Banking & Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Real Estate. Harry has advised clients in the banking and financial services sector, real estate sector as well as the hospitality, health care, automobile, aviation, telecom, IT, ITES, consumer goods sectors.

He has represented some of the largest players in the Indian real estate market, including several Indian companies as well as foreign investors. He has also assisted the Government of India as well as State Government(s) in the drafting of legislations in this sector.

Harry has worked closely with a large number of international and domestic corporations with respect to their business in India and abroad, in the areas of general commercial advice, mergers & acquisitions, private equity, corporate restructuring, joint ventures, fund raising and commercial contracts, etc.

He has advised and represented clients on issues pertaining to corporate finance (both domestic and cross border), debt restructuring and refinancing, securitization, acquisition finance, structured finance, bonds and similar instruments. He has acted for both lenders and borrowers and been involved in complex transactions involving multiple lenders across jurisdictions.

He has also participated in the evolution and formulation process of business strategies with several clients, vis-à-vis their new ventures and business initiatives and has advised in establishing, operationalizing and implementing such business strategies of the clients. He has also advised several clients on strategizing in dispute resolution, negotiation and settlement etc.

Awards & Recoginition

  • Awarded ‘Top Managing Partner’ by Forbes India Legal Powerlist 2023.
  • Awarded the ‘Managing Partner of the Year’ at the LegalEra- Legal Media Group, Indian Legal Awards 2023-24.
  • Recognized as ‘Icon’ in India Business Law Journal’s A-list of Top 100 lawyers in 2023-2024.
  • Recognized as amongst ‘100 Leading Law Firm Professionals’ in the Lawyers Power League 2023 by LawWiser.
  • Ranked in India Business Law Journal’s A-list of Top 100 lawyers in 2022-2023 and 2020.
  • Recognized as the Real Estate Lawyer of the Year at the 12th Legal Era Awards, 2022-23.
  • Awarded Real Estate Law Expert of the Year 2022 by The Lawyer Network.
  • Awarded Leading Legal Mind in Corporate Finance (India) by APAC Legal Awards 2020.