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Corporate banking and securities expert Jigar Shah has been among the most influential lawyers in the development of India’s financial services market. He was a member of a committee at the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), advised on the credit derivatives to the Indian market in 2011 and has since led an industry-wide push for regulatory reform in India’s clearing-house rules for off-exchange trading. As general counsel (GC) at JP Morgan India, Shah leads a team of seven lawyers and reports to John Murphy, JP Morgan’s GC for Asia Pacific. He is a member of JP Morgan’s Asia Pacific legal management committee and overall management committee for India. Shah joined JP Morgan as GC in 2013 after more than a decade at Deutsche Bank India, where he had become the bank’s head of legal.