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Mr. Shailendra Singh – Founder and Managing Partner
Advocate – Enrolled with the Bar Council of Delhi, Enrolment No. D/534-A/01. In practice since 2001.
Insolvency Professional — Registered with the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India, Registration No. IBBI/IPA-002/IP-N00471/2017-2018/11372. Has held appointment as Interim Resolution Professional and Resolution Professional, including in real estate corporate insolvency resolution processes, and as Liquidator.
Mediator — Trained under the Mediation and Conciliation Project Committee (MCPC) of the Supreme Court of India and empanelled with the Supreme Court Mediation Centre.
DIFC Courts — Registered in Part II of the DIFC Courts’ Register of Practitioners, Dubai, carrying rights of audience to conduct oral advocacy before those Courts. Registration is provisional pending first appearance, in accordance with DIFC Courts Order No. 1 of 2025.
Mr. Singh’s practice is principally in insolvency and bankruptcy law, corporate and commercial disputes, economic-offence and PMLA defence, arbitration, and constitutional and civil litigation. He appears before the Supreme Court of India, the High Court of Delhi, the National Company Law Tribunal, the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal, the Debts Recovery Tribunal and other forums across the country.
Within the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, his work as counsel and Insolvency Professional covers the full resolution process — initiation of the corporate insolvency resolution process under Sections 7, 9 and 10, constitution and conduct of the committee of creditors, verification and admission of claims including the claims of homebuyers, resolution plans and their approval, avoidance proceedings under Sections 43, 45, 50 and 66, liquidation, and appeals before the NCLAT and then before Supreme Court of India.
He has separately held appointment as an Insolvency Professional, in both of the capacities the Code provides for.
As Interim Resolution Professional and Resolution Professional, his appointments have included real estate corporate insolvency resolution processes. Real estate insolvency raises questions that do not arise in ordinary corporate insolvency: the treatment of allottees as financial creditors under the explanation to Section 5(8)(f); the threshold for initiation by allottees introduced into Section 7(1) by the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Act, 2020; the constitution of a class of creditors and the appointment and functioning of its authorised representative under Section 21(6A); the verification of claims received in Form CA from a dispersed body of homebuyers; project-wise resolution; and the interface between the Code and the RERA regime and the State authorities constituted under it. His work in these processes has covered the conduct of meetings of the committee of creditors, the invitation and evaluation of resolution plans, and applications arising in the course of the process.
As Liquidator, he has conducted the liquidation process — the constitution of the stakeholders’ consultation committee, the taking into custody and realisation of the liquidation estate, the sale of assets and, where applicable, of the corporate debtor or its business as a going concern, the verification and adjudication of claims, and distribution in accordance with the waterfall in Section 53.
The consequence for the firm’s clients is that insolvency litigation here is approached with an operational understanding of the resolution professional’s and the liquidator’s statutory position — what the office holder is obliged to do, what the office holder cannot do, and where the pressure points in a process actually lie — and not only from the litigator’s side of the record.
Beyond insolvency, his practice extends to commercial arbitration, defence in proceedings before the Enforcement Directorate and economic-offence agencies, bail and quashing matters, writ jurisdiction under Articles 226 and 32, and Special Leave Petitions under Article 136.
As a mediator trained under the Mediation and Conciliation Project Committee (MCPC) of the Supreme Court of India and empanelled with the Supreme Court Mediation Centre, he brings a structured approach to dispute resolution that does not begin and end in the courtroom — assessing, at each stage of a matter, whether a negotiated resolution would serve the client better than continued proceedings.
Mr. Singh is also the proprietor of Shailendra Singh & Co., Advocates and Solicitors.
International and Cross-Border Practice
A growing proportion of the firm’s work has a foreign element — an Indian company with obligations abroad, an overseas creditor or investor with exposure in an Indian insolvency, an arbitration seated outside India, or assets and proceedings spread across more than one jurisdiction. The firm treats this as a distinct dimension of its practice rather than as an occasional adjunct to it.
DIFC Courts, Dubai. Mr. Singh is registered in Part II of the DIFC Courts’ Register of Practitioners, which carries rights of audience to conduct oral advocacy before those Courts. In accordance with DIFC Courts Order No. 1 of 2025, that registration is provisional pending his first appearance, upon which it falls to be confirmed. The DIFC Courts apply a common law procedure and operate in English, and the jurisdiction is of particular relevance to cross-border insolvency and recognition, the enforcement of awards and judgments, and commercial disputes with a Gulf dimension. For Indian businesses with operations, counterparties or assets in the UAE, and for UAE-based parties with exposure in India, the combination of Indian practice and DIFC rights of audience allows both ends of a dispute to be considered together.
Co-ordination with independent firms. For matters requiring advice on the law of another jurisdiction, the firm works alongside independent law firms in Dubai, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States. Advice on foreign law is given by lawyers qualified in that jurisdiction. The firm advises on Indian law and takes responsibility for keeping the components of a matter aligned, so that a client is not left to co-ordinate several firms across several time zones.
What this means in practice. The enforcement of a foreign award in India; the position of an offshore creditor in a corporate insolvency resolution process; the recognition abroad of an Indian insolvency; the Indian regulatory dimension of an overseas transaction — in each of these the Indian and foreign elements have to be planned together rather than sequentially. That is how the firm approaches them.
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Our Team
The firm’s advocates and legal professionals combine courtroom experience with research capability across the firm’s practice areas — insolvency and corporate law, criminal and white-collar defence, arbitration, and civil and constitutional litigation.
Members and associates: Advocates of the firm include Mr Abhyuday Dhasmana, Ms Vandita Tiwari, Ms Ritikaa Sharma, Mr Amit Kumar Singh,Mr Rajesh Kumar, Mr Ajay Kaushik, Mr D.D. Tripathi, Ms Seema Arora, Mr Vipin Kumar, Mr Anjani Kumar, Mr Madan Kumar, Mr Rajeev Sharma, Mr R.S. Patel.
This depth allows the firm to attend to matters running in parallel across multiple forums without loss of continuity.
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How We Work
Across disciplines. The firm’s practice covers litigation, advisory and transactional work, so that a matter touching more than one area of law can be handled within a single team.
Cross-border co-ordination. The firm’s relationships with independent law firms in Dubai, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States allow the Indian and foreign components of a matter to be run in step, with advice on foreign law given by lawyers qualified in the relevant jurisdiction.
Continuity of involvement. Mr. Singh remains personally engaged in the matters the firm takes on, particularly in complex or substantial proceedings.
Preparation. The firm’s approach rests on thorough preparation of the record, the pleadings and the authorities before a matter reaches hearing.