Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co

Executive Chairman: Shardul S Shroff
Managing Partners: Pallavi Shroff, Akshay Chudasama
Number of partners: 169
Number of lawyers: 834

Firm Overview:
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co., founded on a century of legal achievements, is one of India’s leading full-service law firms. The Firm’s mission is to enable business by providing solutions as trusted advisers through excellence, responsiveness,innovationand collaboration. SAM & Co.is known globally for its exceptional practices in mergers & acquisitions, private equity, competition law, insolvency & bankruptcy, dispute resolution,international commercial arbitration,capital markets, banking & finance, tax, intellectual property, data protection and data privacy, technology lawand projects & infrastructure.

The Firm has a pan-India presence and has been at the helm of major headline transactions and litigations in all sectors, besides advising major multinational corporates on their entry into the Indian market and their business strategy. Currently, the Firm has over834 lawyers including 169Partners, offering legal services through its offices at New Delhi, Mumbai, Gurugram, Ahmedabad, Kolkata,Bengaluru,and Chennai.

Main Areas of Practice:
■ General Corporate
■ Mergers & Acquisitions
■ Private Equity
■ Banking & Finance
■ Competition Law
■ Insolvency & Bankruptcy
■ Dispute Resolution
■ Projects & Project Finance
■ Capital Markets
■ Tax
■ Intellectual Property

General Corporate:
The firm’s work in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, JVs, private equity and business restructuring is highly regarded. The firm’s competition law, intellectual property and regulatory teams work very closely with the corporate teams for facilitating deal closures. The firm’s insurance practice is robust and well recognised.

Mergers and Acquisitions:
Consistently rated as one of the top legal advisors in the M&A space in India, the M&A team has been continuously providing focused and coordinated solutions to both foreign and Indian companies seeking to acquire existing businesses or set up new projects.

Private Equity:
The firm is known as the ‘go-to’ firm for Private Equity transaction advisory, in India and has developed a reputation as being the firm to handle high stakes and complex PE deals, which is well evidenced by its role on multi-billion-dollar transactions and complex listed company control acquisitions for PE funds. The Firm acts for large PE and SWF clients, in high value transactions, which aptly demonstrates its market reputation.

Banking & Finance:
The team’s offerings range from traditional banking documentation to securitisation, factoring, setting up payment banks, syndicated loans, structured finance, acquisition finance and mortgage backed securities, guarantee structures, equipment financing, non-convertible debentures, external commercial borrowings and working capital loans.

Competition Law:
With a strong and recognised competition practice in India, the 21-member strong competition team has a proven track record of successfully steering clients through the team’s largest transactions, complex investigations and high-stakes litigation.

Insolvency & Bankruptcy:
The firm has a highly skilled and diversified Bankruptcy and Restructuring Practice. The team’s experience covers an entire range of scenarios relating to bankruptcy and insolvency, starting from early signs of distress to corporates and restructuring towards revival to processes involving liquidation and winding down of businesses. The team provides a comprehensive solution in terms of financial restructuring and recovery, insolvency, corporate reorganisation and restructuring, creditors’ rights, and contingent preparedness against any peripheral litigation.

Dispute Resolution:
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co is a go-to firm for domestic & international arbitrations, commercial & corporate and regulatory disputes in various courts, tribunals, forums, administrative authorities & regulators in India.

Projects & Project Finance:
The firm advises developers, EPC contractors, investors and lenders on various infrastructure projects in sectors such as power, oil & gas, nuclear energy, ports, roads and mining. The firm advises on regulatory aspects, contractual issues and government tendering aspects typically associated with such large scale projects.

Capital Markets:
The firm’s offerings include legal and regulatory advice on IPOs, FPOs, rights issues, QIPs, ADRs, GDRs, IDRs, AIM listings, on the Equity side. On the debt capital markets side, our offerings include issuance and restructuring of FCCBs, non-convertible bonds, unlisted infrastructure bonds, and medium term note programs (MTN Programs). The firm also has a well-developed financial regulatory practice (FRP).

Tax:
The firm offers a broad range of direct and indirect tax services (including customs duty, central excise, service tax value added tax, central sales tax, state excise duty etc.) ranging from tax planning, advisory, implementation, documentation, representation and litigation support. The firm has been instrumental in providing tax advice for international transactions, in addition to being involved in advising and structuring major transactions in India.

Intellectual Property:
The firm offers a full range of services that cover patents, trademarks, copyrights, designs and other allied laws, from conceptualisation to enforcement and from negotiations to creation of innovative corporate structures based on intellectual property.

Contacts:  

■ Mr. Shardul S. Shroff, Executive Chairman
Email: [email protected]

■ Ms. Pallavi Shroff, Managing Partner, New Delhi Office
Email: [email protected]

■ Mr. Akshay Chudasama, Managing Partner, Mumbai Office
Email: [email protected]