Rishi Hindocha

Rishi Hindocha is a Partner at A&O Shearman in Singapore, focusing on Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law. He has extensive experience advising on restructuring, insolvency and financing matters across a wide range of industries and jurisdictions.

His work includes advising on financings for distressed and special situations, informal (consensual) restructuring, formal (court-based) statutory rehabilitation and reorganisation (such as via scheme of arrangement), and insolvency, recovery and enforcement (such as through judicial management, liquidation and receivership).

Rishi advises stakeholders across the capital structure on restructuring and enforcement options, distressed debt trading and financings, distressed M&A acquisition finance and structured financings.

Before joining the Singapore office, Rishi was based in London with the firm’s award-winning London restructuring practice group and has advised on some of the largest and most complex cross-border financings and restructurings, including Metinvest Group’s award-winning scheme of arrangement and the COMI-shift scheme of arrangement for Celsa Huta, the first time an English scheme had been used to restructure a Polish corporate.

His representative matters include advising a global financial institution as a bilateral lender and scheme creditor in the high-profile restructuring and Singapore scheme of arrangement of PT Pan Brothers Tbk; advising the de facto steering committee (led by Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and Bank Mandiri) and a bank syndicate of 18 onshore Indonesian and regional banks on the US$3.2 billion financial restructuring of PT Perkebunan Nusantara III; advising Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd on its exposure to Floatel International; advising Singamas Container Holdings Limited on the debt re-profiling and subsequent repayment by Pacific International Lines involving a Singapore scheme of arrangement and a US$600 million financing package from Heliconia Capital Management; advising an ad-hoc committee of bondholders on the restructuring of an Asia-headquartered airline; advising the Hong Kong branch of an international bank on recovery and enforcement advice in connection with a secured and guaranteed HKD 3 billion facility guaranteed by Kaisa Group Holdings Limited; advising the steering committee of lenders on interim stabilisation measures and recovery in full through shareholder finance injections and the takeover and de-listing of the PureCircle Group; advising a syndicate of lenders on the restructuring of an up to US$300 million syndicated facility to a subsidiary of PT Rajawali Corpora; and advising a creditor on its debt claims in the high-profile liquidation of cryptocurrency hedge fund Three Arrows Capital Ltd.

He is recognised by Chambers and Partners (2022, 2023), which described him as “a technically strong lawyer and a future market leader in restructuring” with “a good ability to manage various stakeholders.” He was voted a Rising Star at the 2023 IFLR Asia Pacific Awards, a Rising Star in the 2022 Global Restructuring Review 40 under 40, and featured in INSOL International’s 2022 Young Practitioner Spotlight.

His expertise covers restructuring, insolvency and capital solutions, and digital assets, with industries spanning energy, infrastructure and transport, private capital, capital solutions, fintech, technology and private credit.

Rishi is the Social Impact Partner for A&O Shearman’s Singapore office and one of the firm’s four global social impact partners, a trustee of the A&O Shearman Foundation, and a Director of Turnaround Management Association Singapore and South East Asia Pte. Ltd. He is a member of the Law Society of England and Wales, the Turnaround Management Association, INSOL, and the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation.

His published work includes “The restriction on loan principal haircuts for Indonesian SOE Banks” (INSOL World, 2023), “Debtor-in-possession restructurings in Singapore” (INSOL World, 2023), “Fishing in turbulent waters: crypto opportunities in Singapore and the US” (IFLR, 2022) and “Crypto loans and security: Lessons from the crypto winter” (INSOL International, 2022).