Siddharth Shah

Siddharth Shah is a senior partner with Khaitan & Co in its Mumbai office and leads the funds practice for the firm. He has over 20 years of professional experience in advising clients in the matters relating to fund formations, setting up of investment platforms, structuring of private equity investments and other corporate transactional matters dealing with joint ventures and M&As in public and private space.

He has vast experience on the funds side having acted as fund counsel to a wide range of domestic and offshore funds across assets classes ranging from angel, venture capital, private equity, real estate, credit, distress asset, public market and hedge funds, REITs, INVITs etc. He advises them on the legal, regulatory and tax matters.

Because of his vast experience in the fund sector in India, he is   regularly invited by the industry associations like IVCA, CII, IMC, APREA, etc. and policy makers such as SEBI and RBI to be part of various regulatory committees and contribute to new policy initiatives. He has been an active contributor in the formulation of the current SEBI guidelines for setting up of AIFs in International Finance Centre like GIFT.  

Siddharth is also a regular contributor to leading business dailies and journals, and also frequently invited for his views by leading business television channels as a subject matter expert in his areas of practice. He is also a regular speaker at various conferences and public forums, both in India and overseas.