Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Company is a full-service law firm.The Firm came into existence on May 11, 2015 from its predecessor Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co .

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co

Headquarters	New Delhi and Mumbai
No. of offices	8
No. of lawyers	119 partners, 550 lawyers (September 2015)[1]
Major practice areas	General Practice
Key people	Shardul S. Shroff, Pallavi Shroff
Date founded	11 May 2015 (Amarchand Mangaldas-1917)
Founder	Shardul S. Shroff
Company type	Partnership
Website	www.amsshardul.com

SAM & Co is known for its  practices in mergers & acquisitions, private equity, competition law, insolvency & bankruptcy, dispute resolution, capital markets, banking & finance and projects & infrastructure.

With 118 partners and offices spread across seven locations in India, the firm regularly advises MNCs, Private Equity Funds and Indian corporate houses.

Locations

The Firm has pan-India presence with offices in Delhi, Mumbai, Gurugram, Bangalore, Chennai, Ahmedabad and Kolkata.

Management

Shardul Shroff.

Shardul S. Shroff is the Executive Chairman, and Pallavi S Shroff and Akshay Chudasama are the Managing Partners of the Firm.

Practice Areas

The key practice areas of the Firm include:

·        Mergers & Acquisitions

·        Joint Ventures

·        Private Equity & Funds

·        Banking & Finance

·        Insolvency & Bankruptcy

·        Real Estate

·        Insurance

·        Competition Law

·        Dispute Resolution: Litigation and Arbitration

·        White Collar Crimes

·        Capital Markets

·        Compliance & Investigation

·        Projects and Projects Finance

·        Tax

·        Employment and Labour

·        Technology, Media & Telecommunication

·        Intellectual Property

·        Private Client Practice

·        Environmental Law

·        Venture Capital

The Works

The firm has been making transactions across various segments of the industry and business. It has represented transnational corporates on their India entry and business strategy, with services in merger & acquisition, tax, competition law, dispute resolution & arbitration, regulatory litigation, capital markets and private equity practices, amongst other practice areas. The competition practice is SAM’s major practice area.

SAM has been involved in many complex transactions and dispute resolution cases. Firm’s briefs have included advising Walmart on its US$ 16 billion acquisition of a controlling stake in Flipkart. It also advised a committee of creditors on insolvencies in which Tata Steel acquired a 72.65% controlling stake in Bhushan Steel, and is currently representing Punjab National Bank as it tries to recover from a US$ 1.4 billion fraud involving jeweller Nirav Modi, who fled the country More recently, the Firm acted as Legal Counsel in the Reliance- Future Group deal.

References

https://www.mondaq.com/company/26280/Shardul-Amarchand-Mangaldas-Co

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https://www.legal500.com/firms/34518-shardul-amarchand-mangaldas-co/35126-mumbai-india/

https://www.amsshardul.com/all-services/

https://www.livemint.com/Companies/DMjEYc7DQsSKqkR2lMzARK/How-Shardul-Amarchand-revamped-its-structure.html

1. "Breaking: AZB partner Shuva Mandal defects to Shardul Amarchand". Legally India. Retrieved 9 September 2015.

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