Shagoofa has over 25 years of experience across private equity, acquisitions, and strategic initiatives, corporate and commercial laws, compliance and ethics advisory, audit and finance. She started her law career at Nishith Desai Associates where she went on to head real estate funds practice. She led the legal-compliance functions at Kotak Investment Advisors Limited and IDFC Alternatives and was in Group Legal Team of Tata Sons. Prior to NIIF, Shagoofa headed Investment Funds practice at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas.

She has been a member of working groups / committees constituted by SEBI and IFSCA. She is member of IVCA’s Executive Committee (2022-24) and member of Regional Advocacy Committee, APREA.

Shagoofa has been recognised as Star Women Lawyer of the Year, at 5th Annual Legal Era Women in Law Excellence Awards (2023), listed in Business World’s “Legal World Top 100 General Counsel” List (2022), listed in “India’s Top 100 Women in Finance, 2020” by AIWMI and listed in “Top 20 Emerging Legal Leaders, India” by RSG Emerging Leaders 2019. She has been ranked, multiple times, as “Distinguished Practitioner” and “Leading Lawyer” by AsiaLaw Leading Lawyers and Legal 500.