Bio

Hemang Shah has advised on transactions with an aggregate value in excess of A$100 billion. He is an accomplished corporate lawyer in public and private M&A, equity capital markets, complex business transactions, and IPOs in Australia and abroad. His clients operate in a wide variety of business sectors, including infrastructure, financial services, technology, and mining. Hemang is ranked in Best Lawyers in Australia (2020 and 2021) for commercial law, and he was a finalist in Lawyers Weekly "Special Counsel of the Year" category in 2018. In 2011, Hemang joined ASX-listed Gloucester Coal as one of the youngest general counsels on the ASX 200. In this role he led the company through a major capital raising and associated acquisitions as well as their merger with Chinese controlled Yancoal. Hemang was appointed general counsel of the listed merged group, Yancoal Australia, with mining assets totaling A$8 billion. During this time he was also a director of Middlemount Coal, an incorporated joint venture between Yancoal and Peabody. Hemang lectures at the University of New South Wales as part of their Founders Program designed to inspire entrepreneurial thinking and is a regular judge for the Peter Farrell Cup, the university's competitive ideas program. He is also the New South Wales branch president of AMPLA (a membership organization for resources and energy lawyers). He previously served as an advisory committee member of the Australian Association of Mining and Exploration Companies, was part of FinTech Australia's Equity/Debt Crowdfunding Working Group that reviewed proposed amendments to the fundraising provisions of the Australian Corporations Act, and participated in Tata Consultancy Services' Future Leaders Summit.