Sunil Inder Choitram

Sunil Choitram is head of a legal department and the compliance officer at Crescent Group, a privately owned group of companies based in the UAE, spanning oil and gas, ports and logisitics, healthcare, funds, PE, VC and beyond. Given the group’s diversified holdings, Sunil has a very wide practice, covering corporate/commercial matters, finance, funds, disputes and regulatory advice across various industrial sectors.

Prior to joining Crescent, he spent more than 10 years advising lenders and sponsors around the world on complex project finance transactions at Clifford Chance LLP, one of the largest lawfirms in the world. Originally trained and based in London, he went on to Frankfurt and then Abu Dhabi focusing on project and corporate finance and non-contentious corporate/commercial matters. Over the course of 2008/2009, he forged alliances with AZB, the leading lawfirm in India, and advised Reliance Industries on oil and gas matters and more than a billion dollars of corporate joint ventures. In 2010 he was in-house counsel to Al Waha Capital, a boutique investment firm in Abu Dhabi. After several years in Abu Dhabi, he left private practice in 2014 to join Crescent.