NAME: Prashant Gupta
LAW FIRM: Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co
COUNTRY: India
PRACTICE AREAS: Capital markets
Prashant Gupta of Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co is our November lawyer of the month for his pivotal role in advising Prosus, the largest shareholder of Swiggy, in the food delivery giant's landmark $1.3 billion initial public offering (IPO). The highly anticipated listing, which has attracted bids worth more than $15 billion from prominent investors including Norway's sovereign wealth fund Norges and Fidelity, marks one of India's most significant tech IPOs of the year.
As head of the firm's capital markets practice, Gupta has built a sterling reputation handling complex equity and debt capital raising transactions. His expertise spans IPOs, rights issues, qualified institutional placement (QIP) offerings, buy-backs, capital restructurings and pre-IPO private placements. Throughout his career, he has advised on capital markets transactions that have collectively raised over $60 billion globally, including both the largest IPO and bond offerings out of India, as well as the largest secondary trade on the Indian stock exchanges.
Gupta is currently ranked as an Elite practitioner for Capital markets on asialaw.
