Satish Kumar Gupta

Mr Satish Kumar Gupta specializes in distressed and special situation investments. He has been a stressed assets and banking expert with large banks, and top asset reconstruction companies for over two decades. Satish has been closely involved in investment, turnaround, and resolution of numerous stressed loans. He advises a large set of players in distressed debt space on acquisition, monitoring, and resolution of special situations. Satish is also an insolvency professional registered with Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India. He successfully led the corporate insolvency resolution process of Essar Steel India Ltd (ESIL) as its Resolution Professional. ESIL was a complex and one of the largest cases to be successfully resolved under the IBC; ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steel producer, was the successful resolution application and took over the company as its new promoter.

In October 2020, Turnaround Management Association (TMA), USA awarded Satish the “TMA 2020 Mega Company Turnaround” award for the year 2020 in the Mega company category with annual revenue of more than USD 1 billion in recognition of the successful turnaround and resolution of Essar Steel India Limited.

Satish is a member of Indian Bank Association’s (IBA) Sub-Committee on Stressed Assets. He is a regular speaker and writer on insolvency, turnaround, and restructuring themes. Satish has a master’s degree in business management from XLRI, Jamshedpur and a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi University.