Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas announces Shuva Mandal, partner, National Practice head to join TATA Group

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas announced today that Shuva Mandal, National Practice Head of Corporate, M&A and Private Equity at SAM & Co., will be joining the USD 100b TATA Group as its Group General Counsel. He will be part of N. Chandrasekaran's special team that will assist in transforming the TATA Group.

Mandal has been with SAM & Co. for almost two years. During that time, he led the General Corporate, and M&A practice at SAM & Co., steering the National Practice Group through an important period of the Firm's growth and transformation. The Firm's practice is ranked amongst the top corporate practices in India.

"While Shuva's resignation leaves us deeply saddened, we are also pleased to know that he will be joining the very highly regarded TATA team. The TATA Group has been a client of the firm and we have a strong and extensive relationship with the Group. This relationship will only strengthen with Shuva's move to the TATA Group," said Executive Chairman Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, Shardul Shroff.

"The SAM & Co. team remains strong. Our national footprint of 91 partners including 44 general corporate partners, many of whom are ranked at the top of their fields of practice, will continue to deliver the highest quality of services to our clients," added Shroff.

"We wish to offer our very sincere thanks to Shuva for all of his hard-work in helping us establish a national Corporate practice at SAM & Co. We look forward to continuing our relationship and working together with Shuva," said Managing Partner Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, Pallavi Shroff.

"Shuva is a stellar lawyer and has been instrumental in helping to establish the SAM & Co. office in Mumbai and growing it from strength to strength. He has led and developed a highly-professional team of lawyers, who will continue with the Firm," said Managing Partner Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, Akshay Chudasama.

"The Firm continues to actively look out for opportunities to team with quality lawyers in the legal market the Firm services," added Chudasama.

"I wish to thank the wonderful team at SAM & Co. and my Partners with whom I thoroughly enjoyed working over the last 18 months. The experience has been great. The team at SAM & Co. will go places," added Shuva Mandal.