Professional Team

MTL Legal's team is known for excellence, innovation, commitment and continued professional development, with a focus on keeping abreast of current legal and market developments.

Founders

Co-founders

Pushkar Bavare

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Pushkar Bavare has over 20 years of experience in banking and finance, project finance, real estate, debt restructuring, structured finance and corporate advisory. He regularly advises banks, financial institutions, NBFCs and corporate borrowers on complex financing transactions, including project and infrastructure finance, structured lending, debt capital market transactions and restructuring mandates.

His experience includes large-scale financing transactions across infrastructure and renewable energy projects, with a focus on loan structuring, documentation, security creation and regulatory compliance. His practice also covers stressed assets, debt restructuring and the enforcement of security interests.

  • Previously with Desai & Diwanji and Dentons Link Legal
  • B.Com., LL.B., PG Diploma in Securities Law
  • Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa
  • Solicitor of England & Wales

Sudha Koloti

Co-Founder

Sudha Koloti has over 27 years of experience in banking and finance, commercial litigation, dispute resolution and corporate advisory. She regularly advises and represents banks, financial institutions, NBFCs and ARCs in litigation, legal audits and transaction documentation.

She appears before High Courts, Debts Recovery Tribunals, District and Sessions Courts, Consumer Forums and other judicial and quasi-judicial authorities. Her core areas of practice include banking and commercial litigation, criminal litigation, intellectual property rights and real estate transactions.

  • Extensive academic experience as a visiting lecturer
  • Two LL.M degrees, LL.B. and B.Com.

Amol Bavare

Co-Founder

Amol Bavare brings over 25 years of experience in commercial litigation, arbitration, dispute resolution and corporate advisory. He regularly appears before the Supreme Court of India, High Courts, NCLT, DRTs, SEBI, Consumer Forums and other judicial and quasi-judicial bodies, and has represented clients in domestic and international arbitrations.

His practice focuses on commercial litigation and arbitration, construction contracts, shareholders' agreements, real estate and infrastructure transactions and banking and commercial transactions, as well as matters involving corporate frauds, economic offences, securities law violations and banking frauds.

  • LL.M in Business Laws, Mumbai University
  • Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa
  • Solicitor, Supreme Court of England & Wales
Partners

Partners & associate partners

Our regional offices are led by partners with deep roots in their local markets and experience drawn from India's leading firms, banks and financial institutions.

Jatin Mittal

Partner — Head, Delhi Office

Jatin Mittal heads the Delhi office. With over a decade of experience at leading law firms such as Desai & Diwanji and Trilegal, he advises domestic and international clients, financial institutions, investors, developers and government bodies on complex transactions across the real estate, infrastructure, hospitality, warehousing and renewable energy sectors.

His expertise includes title due diligence, acquisitions, real estate and investment transactions, capital raising, foreign investments, and drafting and negotiating transactional documents. He also advises on joint development, collaboration, sale and lease arrangements, shareholder and business agreements, and the acquisition of distressed assets.

  • Alumnus of Amity Law School, Class of 2014
  • Enrolled with the Bar Council of Delhi

Sumedh Vaidya

Partner — Co-Head, Banking & Finance, Mumbai

Sumedh Vaidya co-heads the Banking & Finance practice in Mumbai. He has over 14 years of experience in banking, project finance and debt structuring.

His practice focuses on advising banks, financial institutions and corporate clients on structured lending, NCD issuances, debt restructuring and related financing arrangements, including complex financing structures and multi-lender transactions.

  • Previously with an SBI Group company, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Yes Bank and IDBI Trusteeship Services Limited

Venu K.V.

Partner — Head, Bangalore Office

Venu K.V. is a Partner at MTL Legal and leads the Bangalore office. He has around 12 years of experience handling diverse legal issues and has practised in both Bombay and Bangalore.

  • Previously with M/s. O.A. Das & Associates
  • Mr. K.A. Suryanarayanan, Advocate
  • Iyer Chambers, Advocates, Mumbai

Shailesh Kokane

Associate Partner — Co-Head, Banking & Finance, Mumbai

Shailesh Kokane co-heads the Banking & Finance practice in Mumbai, with over 13 years of experience in banking, project finance and debt structuring. He advises banks, financial institutions and corporate clients on structured lending, financing arrangements, regulatory compliance and secretarial matters.

  • Over 12 years with an SBI Group company
  • Banking and finance documentation, regulatory compliance and governance

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