[Exclusive] Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Banking & Finance Partners Pranav Sharma and Mallika Chopra to join Trilegal

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Banking & Finance Partners Pranav Sharma and Mallika Chopra are leaving the firm to join Trilegal.

The Trilegal partnership is in the process of voting on the duo.

Confirming Pranav Sharma's exit, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Managing Partner Cyril Shroff said,

“Pranav is an excellent lawyer. He revaluated his life options in the pandemic and decided to move to a smaller platform. He goes with our best wishes."

Update: Trilegal announced today the appointment of Pranav Sharma and Mallika Chopra as partners in its Banking and Finance practice. With this, the partnership strength of Trilegal grows to sixty-five (65).

Nishant Parikh, Partner and member of the management committee, said, “We are excited about Pranav and Mallika joining the Banking and Finance group at the firm. They are both very accomplished professionals who will add more depth to our practice. We would like to extend a warm welcome to both of them and wish them the very best.”

Ameya Khandge, Partner and Head of Banking and Finance, Trilegal, said, “We are absolutely delighted to welcome Pranav and Mallika to the firm. We see the growing set of clients that are increasingly active in the debt market creating a strong demand for high quality lawyers and we will continue to invest our efforts in growing this practice over the next few years. Pranav and Mallika’s strong focus on corporate and structured finance plays well into Trilegal’s traditional strengths in this space and we are confident that they will make an excellent addition to our team in Mumbai.”

Pranav has over 19 years of specialist experience in the practice areas of Banking & Finance and Debt Capital Markets.

Before joining the erstwhile Amarchand Mangaldas in 2012, Pranav worked for over 6 years in the Banking group at Linklaters LLP. He is a 2001 graduate of NLSIU, Bangalore.

Mallika advises across a wide spectrum of Banking & Financing matters, with a special focus on structured debt transactions, real estate and asset backed financings.

She joined Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas in 2018 from Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas.

A 2008 graduate of Symbiosis Law School, Pune, she also previously worked at ICICI Bank and IndusLaw.