Shardul Suresh Shroff is an Indian

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. He is the executive chairman of the law firm Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co. Prior to the split in the Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co", which was India's largest

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, Shardul used to be the managing partner of the north India region of the firm headquartered in New Delhi.

Early life and education

Shroff completed his B.Com (Hons.) from

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and

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from

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Legal career

On 1 July 1980, Shroff was enrolled in the

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and he started his practice at Mumbai. He started to head the

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office of Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co in September 1980.

Past

Committee memberships

* Chair, Committee for Asset Valuation and Principles of Disposal of Corporate Properties, Assets and Shares; Indian government

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* Chair, Review of Offences and Penalties under the Company Law; Indian government Ministry of Corporate Affairs * 1996Dr. Jamshed J. Irani Committee for amending

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* 1996–97, 2000

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(SEBI)-appointed Bhagwati Committees for redrafting and modifying the SEBI Takeover Code * Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Task Force on Corporate Governance, which drafted the ''Corporate Governance Recommendations for Voluntary Adoption'' by directors * second Naresh Chandra Committee appointed to look into aspects of small and medium enterprise and simplification of Company Law (LLPs and joint ventures) * Dr.

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Committee, appointed by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to revamp Radio Broadcast Policy, to recommend changes to license conditions for privatisation of the radio sector, and to propose a national broadcast regulator * M. Damodaran – Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) Committee on

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Current

Bar memberships

* Supreme Court Bar Association of India * Delhi Bar Association *

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(IBA) He is an advocate-on-record of the

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Affiliations

Shroff is Associate President of Society of Indian Law Firms (SILF), a collective of India's top corporate law firms that has opposed entry of foreign law firms into India.

Personal life

Shardul Shroff is a grandson of Amarchand Shroff, who founded the law firm Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co in 1917. He is a son of Suresh A. Shroff, a former managing partner of the firm and Bharati Shroff, also the co-owner of the firm. After the death of Bharti Shroff, the old firm was split into two with Shardul heading the Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas and brother Cyril Shroff heading the Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas. Shroff is married to Pallavi Shroff, an advocate and daughter of former

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, PN Bhagwati. They have two daughters, Shweta Shroff and Natashaa Shroff.

References

20th-century Indian lawyers Living people Businesspeople from Delhi Year of birth missing (living people) Gujarati people Indian corporate lawyers {{India-business-bio-stub