ESTABLISHED IN 2015

Total number of professionals: 900+ (189 Partners)
Principal office: New Delhi
Other offices: Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Gurugram, Kolkata and Mumbai

Key practice areas

General corporate; M&A; private equity; banking & finance; capital markets; competition law; data protection and data privacy; dispute resolution; employment; environment law; fintech; insurance; intellectual property; international commercial arbitration; insolvency & restructuring; real estate; infrastructure, energy and project finance; tax; technology and media; white-collar crime, investigations and compliance.

Our services

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co, founded on a century of legal achievement, is one of India’s leading full-service law firms. Our mission is to enable businesses by providing solutions as trusted advisers through excellence, responsiveness, innovation and collaboration.

General corporate: Our work in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, JVs, private equity and business restructuring is well documented in the annals of Indian corporate history. Our competition law, intellectual property and regulatory teams work very closely with the corporate teams to facilitate deal closures.

Private equity: Our private equity practice regularly advises funds and sponsors on investments in Indian companies through a variety of instruments. We also represent private equity sponsors in establishing their presence in India and on downstream investments across diverse sectors and public companies across many industries and at every stage of the investment cycle.

Banking and finance: Our 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.

Insolvency & restructuring: Our 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.

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

Dispute resolution: We are a go-to firm for domestic and international arbitrations, commercial and corporate and regulatory disputes in various courts, tribunals and regulators in India.

Intellectual property: We assist through a comprehensive range of services including patents, trademarks, copyright, designs and other allied laws. The spectrum ranges from conceptualisation to enforcement and from negotiations to creation of complex corporate structures based on intellectual property.

Infrastructure, energy and project finance: We advise developers, EPC contractors, investors and lenders on various infrastructure projects in sectors such as power, oil & gas, nuclear energy, ports, roads and mining. We also advise on regulatory aspects, contractual issues and government tendering aspects.

Capital markets: Our 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 programmes.

Tax: We offer a broad range of direct and indirect tax services (including customs duty, transfer pricing, central excise, service tax, value-added tax, central sales tax, state excise duty, etc.), ranging from tax planning, advisory, implementation and litigation support.