Mr. Pranav Sharma is rejoining Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas as an Equity Partner in its Finance Practice. He will be based in Mumbai.
Pranav has over 23 years of specialist experience in banking and finance and debt capital markets and is widely regarded as one of the leading lawyers in these areas. He is qualified to practice both Indian and English law and has worked on a very wide range of banking and finance transactions across various jurisdictions. He has advised banks and financial institutions, multilateral agencies, governmental agencies and state-owned enterprises and leading corporates and private equity sponsors across a vast spectrum of financings – both in India and abroad. He is recognised globally by Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, IFLR100 and Who’s Who Legal as a leading banking and finance practitioner.
Mr. Cyril Shroff, Managing Partner, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas said, “I am delighted that Pranav is joining us back. He is an excellent and highly effective lawyer and very well respected in the profession. With his return, we continue to strengthen our capabilities to serve our clients both national and international. We welcome him back to his real long term professional home.”
Pranav had joined erstwhile Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co. in 2013 and was with the firm until 2021. He has also worked with Linklaters LLP in their banking group in London.
On his joining, Pranav Sharma, said, “I am delighted to be rejoining CAM. It feels great to be welcomed back – and I look forward to working alongside the very talented lawyers there, many of whom are old friends. Given the larger economic factors we see in play in India today, current regulatory trends and the enviable breadth and depth of the firm’s market leading finance practice especially, I am excited about working with the excellent team there to support our clients mobilise debt capital from both the loan and bond markets and to deal with the entire gamut of their financing related requirements.”
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About Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) is India’s leading law firm with a global reputation of being trusted advisers to its clients. The Firm advises a large and diverse set of clients, including domestic and foreign commercial enterprises, financial institutions, private equity and venture capital funds, start ups, government and regulatory bodies. The Firm’s generalists, specialists and senior ex-regulators expertly guide clients across a spectrum of transactions, sectors and regulations. With over 1000 lawyers including 200 Partners, the Firm is a full-service law firm with offices in key business centres at Mumbai, Delhi-NCR, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Chennai, GIFT City, Singapore and Abu Dhabi.
The Firm has been consistently named “Best Overall Law Firm” by the IBLJ Indian Law Firm Awards. It received “National Law Firm of the Year: India” at the IFLR Asia-Pacific Awards for the second consecutive year in 2023 and “Innovation in Advancing Markets” award at the FT Innovative Lawyers Asia Pacific 2022 Awards. The Firm also won “India Deal Firm of the Year” at the ALB India Awards and “Firm of the Year” at the IFLR1000 India Awards in 2022.
