Phoenix Legal

Saket Shukla is a co-founding partner of Phoenix Legal, one of India's fastest growing law firms.

Saket specializes in strategic advisory work and high-end complex transactions cutting across various sectors, including infrastructure, mining and resources, oil and gas, construction, insurance, broadcasting, telecom and hospitality.

With more than two decades of experience, Saket has handled intricate strategic advisory, transactional and projects work, representing investors, targets and various project participants. He has also regularly been representing clients on their India strategy from inception to exit, including through restructurings and high value acrimonious exits, after successfully navigating through the complexities involved in the Indian regulatory framework and enforcement actions. Saket's clients include major international investors, multilateral agencies, promoter groups and HNIs.

Saket keenly follows the regulatory environment in India and participates in various policy building measures. He led an initiative with the insurance regulator which ultimately resulted in the regulator issuing guidelines for mergers of general insurers in India. Apart from policy building measures, Saket also has a keen interest in the social sector. He has advised a US Task Force on CSR related issues and a project in eastern India for connecting silk weaving communities with designers and artists-in-residence to match their craft with current fashion.

Year qualified: 1997

He is really brilliant and very commercial and solutions-focused. Saket Shukla has been recognised among the LawWiser's Lawyers Power League: 100 Leading Law Firm Professionals of 2023. IFLR1000 has recognised Saket as a “highly regarded” lawyer for M&A, Project Development Restructuring and Insolvency Construction and Materials Insurance, Mining. Saket have been recognised by Who's Who Legal as leading practitioner in Energy 2023. Asialaw Leading Lawyers 2023 recommended Saket as a Notable Practitioner in Energy and Infrastructure. Saket Shukla stands out in his ability to put a team together to deal with the matter at hand from within and outside his organization. The teams he has created to deal with our matter have included people from Phoenix and outside to form a complete and diverse set who would be best for the task at hand. His and his team’s alertness and accessibility stand out. Corporate M&A, Legal500 2023.

English and Hindi

Admitted Bar Council of Delhi

St. Michaels School, Patna

B.A. (Hons.), Delhi University (1990-1993) LLB, Faculty of Law, Delhi University (1994-1997) Master in Business Law, National Law School of India University, Bangalore (2002)