Cyril Shroff Bio, Age, Family, Wife, Daughter, Net Worth, House, Career

Cyril Shroff Biography

Cyril Shroff is a corporate lawyer from India. Since May 2015, he has served as the managing partner of Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM), India’s largest full-service law firm. Prior to that, he was the managing partner of Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co since 1995. By Asian Legal Business (ALB) India Law Awards, he was named ‘Deal Maker of the Year’ in 2020 and ‘Managing Partner of the Year’ in 2019.

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How old is Cyril Shroff? – Age

He is 62 years old as of 7 November 2021. He was born in 1959 in Mumbai, India. His real name is Cyril Suresh Shroff.

Cyril Shroff Family – Education

Suresh Amarchand Shroff, the former managing partner of Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co, is his father. Amarchand Shroff, Cyril’s grandfather, founded Amarchand Mangaldas in 1917 with Mangaldas Mehta. Following the death of Cyril’s mother, Bharti Shroff, the firm was divided into two, with Cyril heading Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas and brother Shardul S. Shroff heading Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas. After receiving his BA, and LLB from the Government Law College in Mumbai, he was admitted to the Bar in 1982.

Cyril Shroff  Wife

Vandana Shroff, another partner in Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, is his wife. Rishabh Shroff, Partner & Co-Private Client, and Paridhi Adani, Partner & Head – Ahmedabad at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, are his two children. Saloni Shroff is Rishabh’s wife. Paridhi is married to Karan Adani, the son of Gautam Adani, the Adani Group’s chairman, and founder.

Cyril Shroff  House

Shroff and his daughter Paridhi Karan Adani paid approximately Rs 36.33 crore for a sea-view apartment in an almost-completed super-luxury project in central Mumbai’s Worli neighborhood. This is the third apartment they’ve bought together in Oberoi Realty’s Three Sixty West project on Dr Annie Besant Road.

The previous two transactions were worth Rs 74.66 crore, bringing the total value to nearly Rs 111 crore. Two of the apartments are on the 38th floor of a 65-story building, while the third is one floor below. All three apartments are registered under the APC Benefit Trust, whose trustees include Paridhi Adani and Cyril Shroff.

Cyril Shroff Net Worth

He has an estimated net worth of $15 million.

Cyril Shroff and his wife Vandana Shroff
Cyril Shroff and his wife Vandana Shroff

Cyril Shroff Career

Shroff is the managing partner of Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas and was previously the managing partner of India’s largest and most prestigious law firm, Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co. Shroff is regarded and has been consistently rated as India’s top corporate, banking, and project finance lawyer by several international surveys, including those conducted by International Financial Law Review, Euromoney, Chambers Global, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, Asialaw, and others, with over 37 years of experience in a variety of areas, including corporate laws, securities markets, banking, infrastructure, and others. He has received numerous legal publication awards. He has been described as a “legendary figure in the Indian legal community,” and Chambers Global consistently ranks him as a “star practitioner” in India.

Shroff is known as the “M&A King of India.” Mr. Shroff served on the SEBI-created Uday Kotak Committee on Corporate Governance and the SEBI Committee on Insider Trading. He is also a member of the IMC International ADR Centre’s first Apex Advisory Committee, as well as an advisory member of the Finance Planning Standard Board of India and Macquarie. He was appointed to the Society of Insolvency Practitioners of India’s task force. He serves on the International Advisory Board of the Media Legal Defence Initiative.

Shroff also serves on the National Council on Corporate Governance, the National Committee on Capital Markets, Private Equity & Venture Capital, Commodities Markets, Financial Investors, and Regulatory Affairs committees of the CII. He serves on the governing board of KREA University and on the advisory board of Harvard Law School’s Centre for Study of the Legal Profession. Mr. Shroff was admitted to the Bar in 1982 after graduating from the Government Law College in Mumbai with a BA, and LLB degree. He has been a solicitor at the High Court of Bombay since 1983.

Shroff’s experience includes corporate and securities law, disputes, banking, bankruptcy, infrastructure, corporate governance, private client, financial regulations, and other areas. Chambers Global has consistently ranked him as a “star practitioner” in India, and he has been dubbed the “M&A King of India.” In 2015, he received the Asian Law Business (ALB) India managing partner award. At the age of 35, Shroff took over the Amarchand Mangaldas’ Mumbai operations and gradually rose to become a preferred adviser to India’s corporate elite.