Corporate/M&A: The Elite

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas has one of India's pre-eminent M&A practices, bringing a combination of strengths that few firms in the Indian market can match. The firm's heritage underpins a culture of excellence, responsiveness, innovation, and collaboration that runs through every M&A engagement. The team delivers commercially oriented, bespoke advice across the full transaction lifecycle, seamlessly integrating capabilities in competition law, tax, employment, IP, litigation, and capital markets to provide end-to-end solutions.

The firm advises clients ranging from large corporations and financial sponsors to private equity firms and governmental bodies. Core specialisations include cross-border acquisitions and divestments, private equity buy-outs and exits, public M&A, merger control, joint ventures, corporate restructurings, and insolvency-related acquisitions.

Landmark mandates include advising Reliance Industries on its USD 8.5 billion strategic JV with Disney, Facebook on its USD 5.7 billion investment in Jio Platforms, the largest FDI in India's technology sector, and Walmart on its USD 16 billion acquisition of Flipkart.

With over 950 lawyers across seven offices, the firm offers unmatched pan-India coverage and the ability to mobilise large, multi-disciplinary teams at speed for the most complex and time-sensitive mandates, advising both inbound and outbound investors in one of the world's most dynamic deal-making environments.