Sushma Jobanputra

Partner

Sushma Jobanputra is a qualified banking and finance lawyer with broad experience acting for lenders, borrowers, and financial advisers on a variety of financing transactions, including acquisition finance (investment grade and leveraged), secured and unsecured syndicated lending, and structured finance. She also has acted for lenders and other creditors in cross-border restructurings.

Prior to joining Jones Day, Sushma was a partner at a Magic Circle firm in London where her practice focused on structured and acquisition finance. Most recently, she was a managing director at Barclays Capital, heading a team in the structured transactions department, with responsibility on behalf of the bank for the execution of all large complex structured transactions with other financial institutions and multinationals.

Sushma was included as one of Asia's "Hot 100" lawyers for 2011 by Asia Legal Business magazine, which recognizes lawyers who are leaders, movers and shakers, and dealmakers in Asia.

Sushma was born in Rwanda and lived in India, Canada, France, and England prior to moving to Singapore. She is fluent in English, French, Hindi, and Gujarati.