SAM & Co. Partner and Head of Banking & Finance Sapan Gupta to join ArcelorMittal as India GC

Sapan Gupta – Partner at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM & Co.) and the firm's National Head of Banking and Finance practice, is set to join ArcelorMittal as General Counsel, according to sources.

Sapan is one of the primary partners responsible for the insolvency and bankruptcy practice of the firm. As part of bankruptcy, he has been advising on matters like Essar Steel among others.

Before joining SAM & Co., Sapan was the Head of Legal-Corporate Finance, Transaction Banking and Capital Market, South Asia at Standard Chartered Bank. Previously he has also worked with Tata Group, ICICI Bank and HSBC in various positions.

Sapan has completed his LLB from Faculty of Law, Delhi University. He received his LLM from Harvard Law School where he was a Tata Scholar. He has also attended the London School of Economics as a Chevening Gurukul Scholar.

He is qualified to practice law in India and the State of New York.