Shuva Mandal Bio

In a career spanning over two decades in India’s leading law firms and at the Tata’s, Shuva has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, securities laws, shareholder & governance issues, PE investments and corporate litigations. His experience spans sectors such as commodities, auto, retail, financial services, telecom & media, healthcare, defense, energy. Prior to founding Anagram Partners, Shuva has served as Group General Counsel of Tata Sons, the controlling entity of the Tata Group and was a Senior Partner at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co. and AZB & Partners respectively. Between 2016 – 2021, he spearheaded the successful conclusion in the Supreme Court of India, in a multi-party shareholder litigation that involved key governance issues in the Tata Group – widely reported to be corporate India’s biggest shareholder battle. In his 2-decade legal career, Shuva has advised some of India’s leading corporations & financial sponsors principally – Tata Group, Reliance Industries, Vedanta, CVC, TPG Capital, Brookfield, Meta, Walt Disney, Viacom 18 and Palantir. The Financial Times, London rated him amongst the Top 20 Global General Counsels, 2019 – making him the first Indian GC on the list. The FT, London credited him with transforming the legal team at Tata from a support team to a driver of business growth. Chambers & Partners has awarded Shuva with ‘Outstanding Contribution to the Legal Profession: In-House Award’ 2020 and included him amongst ‘the Most Influential General Counsel in India’ and the ‘GC Influencers – Global 100’ 2019. India Business Law Journal has consistently included him in the A List of Lawyers in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023.