Gunjan Shah

Mergers, Acquisitions, Private Equity & General Corporate

Ms. Gunjan Shah is a Partner and serves on the Management Committee of the Firm. She specialises in General Corporate, Capital Markets and Banking & Finance. Her areas of expertise include Mergers & Acquisition, Private Equity Corporate Restructuring, Debt Restructuring, Debt Capital Markets, and Securities and Takeover Regulation in India.

In 2019, FT Innovative Lawyers 2019, Asia Pacific Awards, awarded her transaction, AION and JSW’s acquisition of Monnet Ispat & Energy Limited on innovation in legal expertise. Gunjan has also been recognised by Asia One among 50 most influential Indians under 50 – 2016-17 and in March 2015, was acknowledged in the list of India's Hottest Young Executives - 2015, Business Today's ninth listing of the best and the brightest corporate performers under 40. Gunjan has been recognised as one of India’s top 40 business leaders under the age of 40 by the Economic Times – Spencer Stuart Survey, 2014. She is a fellow of the Aspen Global Network– Kamalnayan Bajaj fellowship and has held a number of positions on legal panels and forums and is a judge at the Oxford-Price Media moot court competition held in Oxford, UK.

According to Chambers & Partners 2021 “Gunjan is considered a thorough, deal-oriented and senior lawyer with a notable market presence. Her activity continues to focus heavily on the steel industry, where she has handled a range of important deals.” Chambers & Partners 2019 noted that “Gunjan Shah handles a broad range of corporate commercial issues. She is a popular choice of counsel amongst both domestic and international entities for advice on investment and restructuring work”. Gunjan has been recognised as a “Leading individual” for Corporate and M&A, by the Legal500, 2019, and had been described as described as ‘responsive and knowledgeable’ and ‘thoughtful and very knowledgeable’, and “a person who is a mainstay of the banking, finance and capital markets practice”. At AsiaLaw Profiles, 2019, she has been recognised as “Distinguished practitioner” for Corporate and M&A. Gunjan has been associated with Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas since 1998 and is part of the firm’s Management Committee. 

B.A., LL.B. (Hons), National Law School of India University, Bangalore (1993-98) B.C.L., University of Oxford (2000-2001)”