Shruti is the Head of Fuse, Allen & Overy’s tech innovation space which she helped set-up in September 2017. 

Fuse’s philosophy is to identify legaltech, regtech and dealtech companies relevant to A&O lawyers and their clients and to find ways to start working together. Fuse is instrumental in driving the adoption of technology within A&O and more broadly, within the legal sector. The Fuse 4th cohort was launched in June 2020. 

Prior to launching Fuse, Shruti was a Counsel in the Derivatives and Structured Finance group. Shruti was the first person at A&O to have directly been promoted to partner into its Advanced Delivery offering. 

Outside of Allen & Overy, Shruti is a mother of three children, an active angel investor and has built a sector-agnostic portfolio of private investments, many of which have a tech focus. Also, she sits in the LawTech Delivery Panel, an industry-led, government-backed initiative, established to support the transformation of the UK legal sector through tech.

In 2019, Shruti won the Asian Women of Achievement Award in the Professionals category, and was included on in the HERoes Role Model List and the Financial Times TOP 10 legal entrepreneurs. During the course of 2018, Shruti was awarded a TechWomen 50 Award and a Fastcase 50 Award and was also included in the following lists: Lawyer’s Hot100, Brummell Magazine’s 30 Inspirational Women, Management Today’s Power Part Timers, the Inclusive Boards 100 most influential BAME leaders in UK and Innovate Finance’s Standout 35 Women in FinTech.

She is interviewed by Helene Alluni-Botteri, Board Member of La French Tech London.