Trilegal counsel Arpan Chowdhury has joined financial and investment advisory firm SSG Advisors as vice president legal this month.

He is the second person in SSG’s India legal team, with a focus on special situations and distressed asset related work. He will be working with Praveen Thomas (2002 batch Delhi University), who had joined in April 2017 as director and senior legal counsel from Deutsche Bank, where he was senior legal counsel.

An NUJS Kolkata 2010 alumnus, Chowdhury began his career with the erstwhile Amarchand Mangaldas until 2015 and moved on to Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas after the split as principal associate in 2015 for two years before joining Trilegal as counsel.

SSG provides non-binding, non-discretionary investment advisory & financial advisory services to institutional / professional investors principally in special situation and distressed investments as well as private higher quality secured credit investments on a non-exclusive basis.

Chowdhury is based in Mumbai in his new role.