Shafaq has over 23 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. She has led
several international and domestic M&A transactions. 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.