Shafaq has over 24 years of experience and is an expert in Mergers & Acquisitions, joint ventures, fund investments, commercial law, cross-border transactions, and general corporate advisory.

 

She provides integrated solutions to clients and has advised and assisted several Indian and foreign clients in forming joint ventures and technology and strategic collaborations and advised them from an Indian legal and regulatory perspective. She has advised international and domestic businesses with their investment strategies and structuring and setting up of their operations in India, including complex carve-out deals and the creation of business and employee transfer structures. She has led several international and domestic M&A transactions and the entire due diligence process. She provides end-to-end solutions to clients on all legal aspects of structuring and restructuring investments in India and globally across a multitude of sectors.

 

Previously, she was a partner at JSA, the Executive Partner and Head of corporate practice at Lakshmikumaran and Sridharan, Head of M&A and Joint Ventures at Nishith Desai Associates, and Partner at Bharucha and Partners. She was the head of Uraizee Law Associates (ULAW) before merging its corporate practice into C&M.