Prashan Patel
Director, Grant Thornton

Prashan Patel is a director in Grant Thornton’s Insolvency and Asset Recovery team dealing with contentious assignments. He specialises in global asset tracing, recovery, and enforcement, using insolvency and civil procedures as powerful tools to recover hidden and misappropriated assets to maximise financial recoveries for stakeholders. 

His work typically involves multiple onshore/offshore insolvency appointments – liquidations, bankruptcies, and receiverships – where he coordinates enforcement and asset recovery strategies across multiple jurisdictions, including India, the Middle East, the UK, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, the Offshore Financial Centres, and the US. 

He has extensive experience working with Indian and Middle Eastern financial institutions, corporates and lawyers in enforcing non-performing loans, judgments and arbitration awards. Often acting on a contingent basis where he shares the costs and rewards of recovery.

He has recently been working with Grant Thornton India to help grow and develop its asset recovery and insolvency business in light of recent legislative changes in India. He also spends a considerable amount of time in the Middle East.