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Shailaja Lall

Ms. Shailaja Lall is an Equity Partner at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co and headsthe Insurance & Reinsurance practice of the firm. She has worked extensively in the fieldof insurance law for over 20 years and is recognised as a leading practitioner ofinsurance law in India with remarkable domain expertise. Shailaja experience includes advising insurers, reinsurers, insurance intermediaries andother financial services entities on a full range of non-contentious and contentiousinsurance matters. She also advices extensively on key regulatory developmentsimpacting the sector, including PE investment, licensing of insurance intermediaries,corporate agency arrangements, group insurance arrangements and sale of insurancethrough e-commerce platforms. She works with many of the marqee and most-respectedcompanies throughout the insurance sector. The Legal 500, 2018-21 has recognised Shailaja as a “Leading Individual” for Insurance,which quotes “As a practice head Shailaja Lall is a key name to note for non-contentiousmatters”. She has also been ranked by Chambers and Partners, 2018-21 for insurancematters and it states, “Shailaja Lall both heads the team and takes the leading role inmost of its key mandates, enjoying market recognition as a “very bright” practitionerwho is equally at home in both the transactional and regulatory spheres. Shailaja was the Vice Chair of the Lex Mundi Insurance & Reinsurance Practice Group(2012-16) and a member of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce andIndustry’s (FICCI) Insurance and Pensions Committee (2014-15). · Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co

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About

Shailaja Lall is an Equity Partner at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co and heads the Insurance & Reinsurance practice. She has over 20 years of experience in insurance law, advising insurers, reinsurers, intermediaries, and financial services entities on non-contentious and contentious insurance matters, as well as regulatory developments including PE investment, licensing, corporate agency arrangements, group insurance, and e-commerce insurance sales. She is recognized as a Leading Individual for Insurance by The Legal 500 (2018–21) and ranked by Chambers and Partners (2018–21). She served as Vice Chair of the Lex Mundi Insurance & Reinsurance Practice Group (2012–16) and was a member of FICCI's Insurance and Pensions Committee (2014–15).

Practice areas

InsuranceReinsurance

Office

India

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co · Ms. Shailaja Lall is an Equity Partner at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co and headsthe Insurance & Reinsurance practice of the firm. She has worked extensively in the fieldof insurance law for over 20 years and is recognised as a leading practitioner ofinsurance law in India with remarkable domain expertise. Shailaja experience includes advising insurers, reinsurers, insurance intermediaries andother financial services entities on a full range of non-contentious and contentiousinsurance matters. She also advices extensively on key regulatory developmentsimpacting the sector, including PE investment, licensing of insurance intermediaries,corporate agency arrangements, group insurance arrangements and sale of insurancethrough e-commerce platforms. She works with many of the marqee and most-respectedcompanies throughout the insurance sector. The Legal 500, 2018-21 has recognised Shailaja as a “Leading Individual” for Insurance,which quotes “As a practice head Shailaja Lall is a key name to note for non-contentiousmatters”. She has also been ranked by Chambers and Partners, 2018-21 for insurancematters and it states, “Shailaja Lall both heads the team and takes the leading role inmost of its key mandates, enjoying market recognition as a “very bright” practitionerwho is equally at home in both the transactional and regulatory spheres. Shailaja was the Vice Chair of the Lex Mundi Insurance & Reinsurance Practice Group(2012-16) and a member of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce andIndustry’s (FICCI) Insurance and Pensions Committee (2014-15).

India

Expertise

Non-Contentious InsuranceContentious InsuranceRegulatory DevelopmentsPrivate Equity InvestmentLicensing of Insurance IntermediariesCorporate Agency ArrangementsGroup Insurance ArrangementsSale of Insurance via E-Commerce

Education

  • B.SL. LL.B., ILS Law College, Pune

Admissions

  • Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa

Languages

EnglishHindiMalayalam