About
Sheena Ogra
Professional Experience
Sheena is amongst the senior members of the firm’s corporate commercial team. She practices in the areas of Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity, Corporate / Business structuring and restructuring (including joint ventures) and Contracting (commercial and corporate contracts)
Over a period of time she has developed the ability to lead teams in many sizeable transactions and advise clients on structuring, drafting, negotiating private equity transactions including drafting of agreements such as the shareholders’ agreements, share subscription, share purchase and joint venture agreements. Apart from the above, Sheena has also advised clients on day to day legal affairs of the company including but not limited to issues relating to corporate law, employment law, etc.
She has extensive experience in FDI investments, joint ventures, setting up of business operations in India across various industry sectors such as FMCG, infrastructure, energy, media, real estate and construction, services, hospitality, technology, medical devices, IT/ITES, manufacturing and retail amongst others.
She along with other team members have recently contributed to the India Chapter on setting up in India for joint book project of Euraaudit and Interlegal’s joint book project due to be published in early 2019.
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