Siddharth Shah is a senior Partner in the Investment Funds, Private Equity, Corporate and Commercial practice groups in the Mumbai office. He has over 25 years of experience in advising domestic and international fund clients on legal, regulatory and tax matters involving structuring and organisation of funds/investment platforms.

Siddharth’s clients include funds across asset classes ranging from angel, venture capital, private equity, real estate, credit, distress assets, hedge funds, REITs, INVITs etc. He also advises clients on corporate transactions involving M&A, private equity and real estate investments and joint ventures. Besides advising clients on traditional fund structures, he has also been very actively involved with establishment of bespoke investment platforms spanning across asset classes ? private equity/venture capital, venture debt, structured credit, distress assets, infrastructure as well as real estate.

Siddharth advises clients across the entire spectrum of services covering conceptualisation of the structure, establishment of relevant entities under the platform, preparation of documents (including shareholders agreements as well as platform/fund documentation), negotiations (inter se between partners as well as LP negotiations), seeking of necessary regulatory licenses, structuring of carried interest and related documentation, and other incidental services including ongoing operational matters customary to such bespoke structures.

He is a regular speaker at domestic and international conferences; and is acknowledged as an expert and an expert in his field by reputed legal directories and industry publications and is a regular invitee/member of various industry associations and regulatory committees set up by regulators for policy initiatives.

Recognitions & Accomplishments:
Siddharth has been consistently recommended by many of the world’s leading law chambers and accreditation bodies. He has been acknowledged for his experience and expertise by:

• Asialaw Leading Lawyers – Asialaw Profile as an ‘Elite Practitioner’ in Private Equity;
• IFLR 1000 Lawyers ranking as the ‘Highly Regarded’ practitioner in Private Equity;
• India Business Law Journal asone of India’s toplawyers, 2021 and amember of theexclusive ‘A’ list of lawyers;
• Chambers & Partners intheir Asia?Pacific rankingsas a ‘Band1’ lawyer for Private Equity; and 
• WhosWhoLegalpublished by theLaw Business Research Limited, UKas a ‘Global Elite Thought Leader–Private Funds Formation 2021’.

Practices:

Investment Funds, Private Equity, Corporate and Commercial

Education:

M.B.A. (Finance), New Hampshire College, Boston (1996), LL.B., Saurashtra University, Bachelor Of Engineering (Mech), Saurashtra University (1993)