Aparna Mehra

Partner, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co

Aparna Mehra is a partner in the firm’s competition law practice and has over 10 years of extensive experience, particularly in the Indian merger control regime. She is a merger control specialist and has been involved in a number of high-profile merger control matters, leading the charge in notifications and, where necessary, negotiating remedies. She also played an important role in the finalisation of the Indian merger control regime in April–May 2011, working closely with the government of India and the Competition Commission of India in relation to the draft Combination Regulations and associated exemption measures. Prior to venturing into competition law, Aparna was involved in a number of M&A transactions and practised general corporate commercial law by advising clients on regulatory and compliance issues in various sectors. She has co-authored several competition law publications, such as the India chapter of the upcoming Private Equity Antitrust Handbook, published by the American Bar Association, ‘Navigating through Indian Merger Control, Trends and Challenges’, published in USIBC Legal, and the India chapter of the Antitrust Chronicle – Antitrust Developments in Asia Pacific, published by Competition Policy International.    Aparna represented Monsanto in the Bayer/Monsanto transaction for India, which won the Matter of the Year at the Global Competition Review Awards, 2019.  She has been listed as a foremost practitioner under 45 in Who’s Who Legal: Competition – Future Leaders. In addition, she is recognized as a “Rising Star” in Competition and Antitrust in The Experts Guides list for 2018 and 20