Shagoofa Rashid Khan
Senior Partner
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I believe in the transformative power of simplicity: be good, do good. Am committed to guiding clients in navigating complexities and creating long term value in an ever-evolving landscape while actively collaborating with regulators and associations in shaping the future.
Shagoofa Rashid Khan, Senior Partner in the Mumbai office, leads the Investment Funds Practice. She has nearly 25 years of experience across structuring funds, managed accounts, fund documentation, private equity, acquisitions / exits/ restructuring / joint ventures and strategic initiatives (real estate and infrastructure sectors), international taxation and planning, corporate and commercial laws, business advisory, compliance, governance, ethics advisory, audit and finance. She has led the investment funds practice in leading Indian law firms and her clients included sovereign funds, pension funds and marquee global and domestic fund managers. She has also been in-house counsel for over 12 years and been responsible for legal, compliance, regulatory, governance and corporate affairs in leading Indian fund houses. Having been in the fund industry for more than two decades, she has hands-on experience across the life cycle of a fund from structuring a fund product to winding up.
DIRECTORSHIPS, MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS
- Executive Committee (2022 – 24): Indian Venture Capital Association
- Regional Advocacy Committee (2020 – 2024): Asia Pacific Real Assets Association
- CII Legal Affairs Committee (2024 – 2025)
- SEBI’s Working Group on review of AIF Regulations (2023 – 2025)
- SEBI’s Working Group on review of Research Analysts Regulations (2022)
- Expert Committee on Investment Funds, IFSCA (2021)
- SEBI’s Working Group on review of Investment Advisers Regulations (2019)
- Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa (2016)
RECENT RECOGNITION
2024
2023
2022
2021
India Business Law Journal
Recognized as a ‘General Counsel of the Year’ in IBLJ’s in-house Counsel Awards
India Business Law Journal
Recognized as a ‘General Counsel of the Year’ in IBLJ’s in-house Counsel Awards
Legal Era
Star Women Lawyer of the Year, at 5th Annual Legal Era Women in Law Excellence Awards
Business World
Listed in BW Legal World ‘Top 100 General Counsel Power list’
Asialaw Profiles
Distinguished Practitioner
Legal 500 Asia Pacific
Leading Lawyer
RECENT RECOGNITION
India Business Law Journal
Recognized as a ‘General Counsel of the Year’ in IBLJ’s in-house Counsel Awards
India Business Law Journal
Recognized as a ‘General Counsel of the Year’ in IBLJ’s in-house Counsel Awards
Legal Era
Star Women Lawyer of the Year, at 5th Annual Legal Era Women in Law Excellence Awards
Business World
Listed in BW Legal World ‘Top 100 General Counsel Power list’
Asialaw Profiles
Distinguished Practitioner
Legal 500 Asia Pacific
Leading Lawyer