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About Aditya Bapat

I make a living arguing cases in the Bombay High Court and its satellite tribunals. I got my law degrees from Columbia Law School and ILS Law College, Pune. While at Columbia, I studied Argumentative Journalism at the Columbia Journalism School. This experience stimulated my love for writing short, punchy pieces. I write on topics ranging from free speech and the Constitution to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code. My love for cricket started, unexpectedly, during India’s disastrous 1991/92 tour of Australia (I was seven). It has blazed on, undimmed by India’s shaky fortunes. When I meditate on life’s ultimate futility, the Beatles’ Abbey Road album offers consolation.

How Maharashtra Seamless won, but still lost

If there is one thing that IBC-watchers are never deprived of, it is courtroom action. There is an inherent tension in the act of plucking a company away from its erstwhile owners and offering it to a flock of bidders that lends itself to constant and tiresome litigation. If there [...]

2021-01-11T17:15:50+05:30 April 14th, 2020|Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code|Comments Off on How Maharashtra Seamless won, but still lost

Jaypee Infratech, the Supreme Court and a Matter of Preference

The insolvency of Jaypee Infratech Limited (JIL) is only eclipsed by Essar Steel in its contribution to insolvency law. The very definition of a financial debt, the cornerstone of the IBC, was amended to fulfil the needs of its homebuyers, mostly the hapless purchasers of JIL’s aptly-named, graveyard-like “Wish Town” [...]

2021-01-11T17:18:06+05:30 March 27th, 2020|Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code|Comments Off on Jaypee Infratech, the Supreme Court and a Matter of Preference

My grouses with the Supreme Court’s Ruchi Soya judgment

The NCLT, Ahmedabad just reserved its judgment in the fresh round of litigation in the seemingly interminable Essar Steel insolvency. Among other issues, it will decide on an application by Essar’s former directors to set aside the approval of Essar’s Committee of Creditors (CoC) to ArcelorMittal’s resolution plan. The directors [...]

2021-01-11T17:25:25+05:30 February 19th, 2019|Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code|Comments Off on My grouses with the Supreme Court’s Ruchi Soya judgment