Promode Murugavelu is a Partner in the Firm’s General Corporate practice and is based out of its Chennai office.

Promode focusses on Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity, Venture Capital and General Corporate advisory. He has advised many prominent companies, including Indian public sector enterprises, in M&A, corporate restructuring and private equity transactions. Promode  has extensive experience in cross border M&A, court based arrangements, compromises, capital restructurings and business consolidations, asset & business acquisitions and joint ventures, with special focus on manufacturing, pharmaceutical, IT, e-commerce, retail and hospitality sectors.

During his legal career spanning almost a decade, Promode has worked on several notable deals including advising NTPC, in its INR 10,307 crore bonus debenture issue (the first bonus debenture issue by a government company in India), Dr. G.S.K. Velu in sale of his 37% stake in Metropolis Healthcare to the Carlyle Group, Heidelberg Cement India in sale of its cement grinding facility in Raigad, Maharashtra, to JSW Steel and Vedanta Group in its corporate restructuring through a court approved Scheme of Amalgamation and Arrangement involving various Indian and off shore entities.

Prior to joining Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co, New Delhi office in 2010, Promode worked with the Corporate Practice Group at Dua Associates, New Delhi and Tatva Legal, Gurgaon. He graduated from The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences in 2006.

A detailed experience statement can be shared on a confidential basis.

Professional Memberships

• Bar Council of Delhi

Education

• B.A. LL.B, (Hons), West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata