Moorari Shah leads Sheppard’s consumer finance and fintech team, advising fintechs, banks, consumer finance companies, investors and their partners across the financial ecosystem on how to innovate, scale and navigate complex regulatory challenges. His counsel combines commercial acumen with deep regulatory insight, shaped by extensive in-house and law firm experience.
A Strategic, Trusted Adviser
Clients say Moorari feels like an extension of their team, anticipating issues before they surface, distilling complex rules into concise, practical guidance, keeping them informed of developments they “would not have known about,” and making them look good to their own stakeholders.
Practical and Risk-Savvy
Clients repeatedly emphasize Moorari’s pragmatism—his skill in risk assessment and proposing workable options when a perfect path is not available—and his ability to help clients find ways to mitigate the risk without stalling business objectives.
Deal-Making and Corporate Expertise
Nationally recognized by Legal 500 for M&A/Corporate and Commercial work, Moorari has negotiated asset and stock purchases, fintech bank partnerships, startup financings through IPO, complex payment processing and acquiring deals, and technology outsourcing arrangements. He is equally adept in real estate, asset-based, and unsecured financings, and in enforcing creditor rights in workouts.
A Partner Clients Trust Personally
Clients remark on Moorari’s character as much as his counsel, describing him as someone who cares about their careers and well-being—a partner rather than merely a service provider.
Earlier in his career, Moorari served as a Manhattan assistant district attorney and spent nine years in-house at Toyota Motor Credit Corporation. He currently chairs the Legislative and Regulatory Subcommittee of the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association (ELFA), and he is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt.
