Praajakta Pargaonkar
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Praajakta Pargaonkar is a Corporate & Commercial Partner with extensive international experience across private practice, offshore finance and in-house legal roles. She advises on mergers and acquisitions, intra-group reorganisations, shareholder arrangements, corporate governance, investment fund structuring and commercial contracts.
Praajakta began her legal career at Slaughter and May before moving to Covington & Burling. She later spent five years in the Cayman Islands with Ogier and Maples Group, advising on complex corporate, commercial and investment fund matters. Most recently, she worked in-house at Tata Consultancy Services Limited, bringing a commercially focused perspective to her client work.
Highlights
- Advised an India-based pharmaceutical client on the US$750 million sale of certain assets to a major US pharmaceutical company
- Advised an insurance software company on its £250 million management buyout and sale to a large private equity house
- Drafted and negotiated shareholder agreements for joint ventures and multi-investor holding companies
- Established open-ended and closed-ended Cayman Islands investment fund structures as both lead counsel and offshore counsel
- Drafted and advised on commercial terms of business for the use and deployment of AI-powered solutions
Expertise
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Intra-group reorganisations
- Shareholder agreements
- Corporate governance
- Investment fund structuring
- Open-ended and closed-ended Cayman Islands fund structures
- Commercial contracts
- AI-related commercial terms and contract clauses
Career History
Tata Consultancy Services Limited
Ogier, Jersey
Maples Group, Cayman Islands
Ogier, Cayman Islands
Covington & Burling
Slaughter and May
Education
BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, University of Oxford
LPC and GDL, BPP School of Law
Professional Membership
Member, The Law Society of England and Wales
