Jehaan Shroff

Jehaan is a co-founding partner at Consortia Legal, heading the corporate, transaction advisory, restructuring, funds, education and data protection practices. He specialises in domestic and cross-border transactions, private equity and venture capital investments, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, debt financing, refinancing structured finance and funds.

Jehaan is based in Mumbai and specialises in domestic and cross-border transactions, private equity and venture capital investments, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, debt financing, refinancing and structured finance.

As a corporate specialist, Jehaan regularly provides strategic and transaction advice to Indian and foreign clients with respect to their investments from and into India. He has advised diverse set of clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups across various sectors including logistics, hospitality, manufacturing, insurance, financial services, information technology and social media. With over a decade of experience as a corporate and transaction lawyer and an earlier stint as an investment banker, Jehaan demonstrates a unique ability to evaluate transactions and advise clients based on commercial acumen and understanding of business as well as legal skill.

Jehaan has advised several regulated entities such as insurance companies and intermediaries on joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and bancassurance transactions. Jehaan regularly advises fintech, insuretech and wealth-tech companies as well as NBFCs, including digital lending platforms, and SEBI regulated entities on various corporate (including contract negotiations) and regulatory matters.

Jehaan also heads the data protection practice of the firm. He advises clients on data protection and privacy related issues and has assisted businesses in gearing up to navigate the impending regime on data protection and privacy. He has also advised leading industry bodies that submitted recommendations to MeitY, Government of India on the impact of India’s new data protection framework. Jehaan facilitates workshops for his clients which include insurers, reinsurers and intermediaries on data protection implication for the insurance industry.

Jehaan completed his MBA from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, with a dual specialisation in finance and strategy. On completing his MBA, he worked as an investment banker with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India Private Limited where he advised several clients, both on the buy-side and the sell-side. Prior to co-founding Consortia Legal, Jehaan worked with a couple of other reputed Indian law firms.