WSB Real Estate Partners is guided by a seasoned Board of Directors with deep expertise across real estate, finance, governance, and investment management. The Board plays a critical role in shaping the firm’s strategic direction, ensuring strong governance practices, and overseeing long-term value creation for stakeholders.
Mohinder Pal Bansal
Director
Virendra
Gala
Director
Chirag Shah
Director
Mohinder Pal Bansal
Mohinder Pal Bansal is the Founding Partner and Chairman of Blacksoil Group. He provides
management and corporate advisory to clients along with assisting in various formats of capital
raising and restructuring.
Mohinder is a Chartered Accountant with over 30 years of experience and has advised corporates
like Allcargo Global Logistics, Navneet Education, Prince Pipes, EduHold NV, Amforge Industries
and Bank of Punjab with M&A, capital markets, fund management, and portfolio integration. He
also serves on the board of six notable companies.
Virendra Gala
Virendra Gala is the promoter of Mahavir Agency which is engaged in the real estate advisory
business.
He has over 25 years of real estate financing and broking experience with expertise across the
real estate value chain from land acquisition to possession of fully developed projects. He
specializes in enabling sale and acquisition of large parcels of industrial lands, strategizing
marketing, and bulk buying of large real estate projects and has successfully completed
transactions of ~7 million sq ft of industrial & land parcels for developers across Western
Mumbai.
Chirag Shah
Chirag Shah is a Director at Walton Street BlackSoil Real Estate Partners Private Limited, where
he leads fund-raising and investments across alternative credit AIFs, spanning both real estate
and non-real estate segments.
He plays a key role in sourcing investment opportunities, transaction management, structuring,
and asset management. With over a decade of experience in fund management, Chirag has been
instrumental in setting up multiple Category II AIF credit funds across real estate and non-real
estate sectors.
He also serves as a Director at BlackSoil AMC, overseeing credit funds across both segments.
Over the years, he has been involved in managing Assets Under Management (AUM) of over ₹3000Cr.
Chirag holds an MBA in Finance.
