Biography: Banking

Ms Vijaya Rao is a partner at Luthra & Luthra Law Offices, a premier top tier law firm in India. In her career spanning over three decades, Ms Rao has advised on varied and complex transactions across equity and equity-linked structures, lease financing, securitisation, restructuring, refinancing, and project finance.

Ms Rao's practice focuses primarily on rendering advisory and legal assistance in project finance, banking & finance and private equity matters and associated regulatory work. She has represented lenders in the debt financing of power projects (including UMPPs), an oil refinery in India, an iron ore terminal, an expansion of a power project in western India, transmission line project, crude steel capacity brown field expansion project, facilities for handling of crude oil and finished products, installation, etc of GSM Network across 22 circles in India and acquisition of NLD and ILD License to route the telecom traffic, development of various road projects, acquisition of telecom towers, manufacturing of solar photovoltaic cells & silicon wafers, dedicated coal mines, ECB financings, corporate financing, assets acquisitions, restructuring of debt of an airline, expansion financing.

She was also member of the group of Indian Bank's Association and was involved in term loan consortium documentation. Ms Rao is a visiting lecturer of financing law related topics in various law colleges.

Biography: Project Finance

Ms Vijaya Rao is a partner at Luthra & Luthra Law Offices, a premier law firm in India. In her career spanning over three decades, Ms Rao has advised on varied and complex transactions across equity and equity-linked structures, lease financing, securitisation and project finance.

Ms Rao has been recognised as a 'leading lawyer' by Chambers Global, Legal 500, IFLR, Asialaw and various other publications for her expertise in project finance.

Ms Rao's practice focuses primarily on rendering advisory and legal assistance in project finance, banking and finance and private equity matters and associated regulatory work. She has recently represented lenders in the debt financing of power projects (including UMPPs), an oil refinery in India, an iron ore terminal, an expansion of a power project in western India, transmission line project, crude steel capacity brownfield expansion project, facilities for handling of crude oil and finished products, installation etc, of GSM Network across 22 circles in India and acquisition of NLD and ILD licence to route the telecom traffic, development of various road projects, acquisition of telecom towers, manufacturing of solar photovoltaic cells and silicon wafers, dedicated coal mines, ECB financings, corporate financing, assets acquisitions, restructuring of debt of an airline, expansion financing.

Some of the eminent clients she has advised in her career with Luthra & Luthra Law Offices include Goldman Sachs; Adani Power; Tata Steel; Oman Investment Fund; Axis Bank, Union Bank, IDBI Bank; State Bank of India; a consortium led by General Electric; Infrastructure Leasing and Finance Services; Yes Bank; UB Group, and National Australia Bank.