Her story

Shabarika is a Partner, Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Markets at Corrs Chambers Westgarth. Shabarika is a Partner, Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Markets at Corrs Chambers Westgarth. In her professional life, she collaborates with clients across diverse industries, helping them solve complex problems and facilitating significant transactions for their businesses. When thinking of diversity, Shabarika envisions strength, talent, and positive outcomes, emphasizing the need for the legal industry and clients to prioritize diversity as a core value. Her main driver to enter the legal industry was a motivation to understand the world and its institutions through the study of commerce and law, ultimately drawn to the dynamic, varied, and challenging career path offered by commercial law.

Without mentioning your job title, how would you describe what it is you do now (whether at home, work, in the community, etc.)?

I work with clients across a wide range of industries, helping them to solve complex problems, including to structure, negotiate and implement significant transactions for their businesses.

What are the first three words you think of when you hear the word ‘diversity’?

Strength, talent, outcomes.

What do you think it will take to develop truly diverse thinking within the legal industry?

The adoption of diversity as a priority and core value by the legal industry and our clients.

What was your main driver to enter the legal industry?

I was motivated to study commerce and law to better understand the world and its institutions. From there, I was particularly drawn to commercial law because it offered a dynamic, varied and challenging career path.