Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co

ESTABLISHED IN 2015

Total number of professionals: 729 (141 partners)
Principal office: New Delhi
Other offices: Mumbai, Gurugram, Bengaluru, Chennai, Kolkata and Ahmedabad

Key practice areas

Arbitration & ADR, banking & finance, bankruptcy & insolvency, capital markets, competition & antitrust, corporate & commercial, intellectual property, project finance, and taxation.

Our services

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co (SAM & Co), founded on a century of legal achievement, 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, innovation and collaboration. SAM & Co is known globally for its exceptional practices in mergers & acquisitions, private equity, competition law, insolvency & bankruptcy, dispute resolution, capital markets, banking & finance and projects & infrastructure. We have a pan-India presence and we have 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.

General corporate: Our work in the areas of mergers & acquisitions, JVs, private equity, insurance, real estate, employment and business restructuring is well documented in the annals of Indian corporate history. Our corporate teams are well complemented by our other practices to facilitate deal closures.

Banking & finance: Our offerings range from traditional banking documentation to securitization, factoring, payment banks, syndicated loans, structured acquisition equipment finance, mortgage backed securities, guarantee structures, NCDs, ECBs, and working capital loans.

Competition law: With a strong and the most recognized competition practice in India, the competition team has a proven track record of successfully steering clients through their largest transactions, complex investigations and high-stake litigations.

Insolvency & bankruptcy: Our experience covers an entire range of scenarios relating to bankruptcy and insolvency, from early signs of distress and restructuring towards revival, to processes involving liquidation and the winding down of businesses. We provide a comprehensive solution to financial restructuring and recovery, insolvency, corporate reorganization, creditors’ rights and contingent preparedness against any peripheral litigation.

Dispute resolution: We are a go-to firm for domestic and international arbitration, as well as commercial, corporate and regulatory disputes in various courts, tribunals, forums, administrative authorities and regulators.

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

Capital markets: We advise on IPOs, FPOs, rights issues, QIPs, ADRs, GDRs, IDRs, and AIM listings on the equity side, and the issuance and restructuring of FCCBs, non-convertible bonds, unlisted infrastructure bonds, and medium-term note programmes (MTN programs) on the debt side.

Tax: We offer a broad range of advisory and litigation services in the areas of direct and indirect taxes (including customs duty, goods and service tax and state excise/alcohol duty).

Intellectual property rights: We offer a full range of services that cover patents, trademarks, copyrights, designs and other allied laws, from conceptualization to enforcement and from negotiations to creation of innovative corporate structures based on intellectual property.