Ekta Gupta is a Corporate, M&A and PE Partner at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co. and has been with the firm since 2007. Ekta regularly advises large private equity funds, public and private companies, sovereign wealth funds, MNCs, strategic corporate clients and Indian conglomerates on a wide variety of their complex cross-border PE and M&A transactions. Ekta’s diverse practice includes representing clients in acquisitions, dispositions, minority and strategic investments and advising on full range of their operations and activities across a range of sectors in India.

In the e-commerce and retail space, Ekta has formidable experience and is regarded a sectoral expert. In this space, she has led over 100 acquisitions and investments for marquee clients exceeding several billion dollars including Walmart’s acquisition of Flipkart, which is largest e-commerce acquisition in the world.

Ekta has received multiple recognitions and accolades from several international legal publications for her stellar credentials displayed in the corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity domain.

She is one of the Top 40 Under 40 lawyers, recognised by BW Legal World. She is amongst the Top 100 Individual Lawyers of the Forbes, Legal Powerlist India, 2022. Ekta is amongst one of the four Indian lawyers to be ranked amongst Top 25 lawyers globally by Mergermarket Individual Global League Table, 2020. Ekta has been ‘Notable Practitioner’ for Corporate M&A, Private Equity by Asialaw Profiles consistently for the last 3 years.