He leverages over 10 years of experience in business analysis, financial and operational restructuring and due diligence, assisting corporate boards, distressed companies, and financial institutions with restructuring, turnaround, and enforcement strategies. This includes managing their affairs, conducting business reviews, structuring exit strategies from stressed assets and execution.
Prior to joining Kroll, Karnjote served as a member of the Special Credit Unit at HSBC in Singapore, where he managed a portfolio of high-risk and distressed accounts across various regions, including Vietnam, Dubai, and Oman. Before that, he held the title of Head of Restructuring Services at a Big Four accounting and consultancy firm in Qatar, advising a sovereign wealth fund on a hospitality group’s asset portfolio and its USD 3.7 billion debt.
His notable engagements include the debt restructuring of one of Indonesia’s largest mining companies with USD 4.2 billion in debt obligations. He managed the turnaround, restructuring and sale of a Singapore-based petrochemical plant with a project cost exceeding USD 2.4 billion which included the successful litigation and recovery of over USD 50 million in receivables which was the subject to set-off claims.
He also led and managed the multi-jurisdictional enforcement and successful turnaround of an Irish animation and visual effects production company with operations in Ireland and India. This involved litigation against select directors following the investigation and identification of falsified agreements and over USD 60 million in misappropriated assets accumulated over half a decade.
Karnjote’s additional professional experience includes three years working in assurance, where he was involved in both Singapore-based and cross-border audit engagements specifically in Kuala Lumpur, Dubai, and Kazakhstan across a broad range of industries, including but not limited to real estate, manufacturing, retail, and offshore support. He also worked at a leading oil and gas multinational corporation as a financial analyst specializing in performance analysis and support of nine sales offices across Asia Pacific.
Karnjote received a Bachelor of Accountancy from Nanyang Business School (NTU) Singapore. He is a Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants.
