Cyril Shroff
Managing Partner
Bio:
Mr. Cyril Shroff is the Managing Partner of Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas since May 2015 and previously was the Managing Partner of Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co.
With over 37 years of experience in a range of areas, including corporate and securities law, disputes, banking, bankruptcy and restructuring, infrastructure, private client, financial regulatory and others. Since the introduction of the new insolvency laws and out-of-court restructuring guidelines in India, Mr. Shroff has led many path-breaking cases such as the restructuring/insolvency of the IL&FS Group, Jet Airways, DHFL and Essar Steel.
He is consistently ranked as “star practitioner” in India by Chambers Global and is regularly recognized as an award winning professional across various practices. Mr. Shroff was awarded with “Managing Partner of the Year 2019” at the Asia Legal Business (ALB) India Law Awards.
Mr. Shroff was a member of SEBI constituted Uday Kotak Committee on Corporate Governance and SEBI Committee on Insider Trading. He is member of first apex advisory committee of the IMC International ADR Centre and also a task force member of Society of Insolvency Practitioners of India.
He is a member of the Media Legal Defence Initiative International Advisory Board; part of various committees of the CII’s the National Council on Corporate Governance, the National Committee on Capital Markets, Private Equity & Venture Capital, Commodities Markets, Financial Investors and Regulatory Affairs.
He is on the Board of Indian Institute of Management, Trichy and Krea University; member of the Apex Advisory Board of Adani Institute of Infrastructure Management; a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Study of the Legal Profession established by the Harvard Law School and Advisory Board of the National Institute of Securities Markets (NISM).
Mr. Shroff was admitted to the Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa (India) in 1982 after receiving his B.A., LLB degree from the Government Law College in Mumbai. He is also a Solicitor, Bombay Incorporated Law Society, since 1983.