Ashik Shah

Ashik Shah

Senior Managing Associate

Overview

Ashik focuses his practice on private equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and general corporate governance matters. Ashik counsels and represents public and private companies, private equity funds and entrepreneurs in a variety of complex transactions, including mergers, stock and asset acquisitions, dispositions, corporate restructurings and cross-border transactions. 

Ashik has substantial experience in transactions involving business and professional services, healthcare, food and beverage, software and technology, consumer products, renewal energy, manufacturing and industrials, and transportation and logistics, among others.

Ashik is skilled in negotiating and drafting purchase, shareholder and equity agreements as well as closing complicated transactions by utilizing his strong communication skills with an emphasis on efficiency to meet client needs.

Ashik also counsels various clients on a broad range of general corporate matters, including governance and executive compensation.

Prior to joining Benesch, Ashik was a corporate associate at Paul Hastings LLP.

Experience

Credentials

Education

UC Berkeley Law, 2017, J.D.
  • Editor, Berkeley Business Law Journal
  • Editor, Berkeley Journal of International Law
  • Member, South Asian Law Students Association
  • Member, Berkeley Law Queer Caucus
Indiana University, 2014, B.A. in International Studies and Political Science with distinctions
  • Minor in Spanish

Clerkships and Bar Admissions

Illinois

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  • Member, South Asian Bar Association
  • Member, LAGBAC Bar Association