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MASTER CLASSES ON CORPORATE LAWS
(50 hours Online Educational Certificate Program from Industry Experts) 15 days -‐ June 19, 2020 to July 03, 2020
(7.00 AM to 10.00 AM)
About the Program This unique program is an attempt to bridge the distancing between the academia and Industry in times of social distancing and make generation next prepared as per the expectations of the Industry. The resource persons identified for the classes are experts in their respective areas and have rich experience of 15-‐25 years. The topics had been selected based on their importance, utility, complexity and Industry requirements. Please refer annexure for indicative topics and resource persons. Who can attend This program is open for all students, research scholars, alumni’s of all National Law Universities and members/students of professional Institutes (ICSI, ICAI & ICMAI). Participation fees, Mode of participation & attendance There is no fee for participation. The classes shall be conducted through online mode. Link for the same shall be sent to email address shared by you in registration form. The certificate of participation shall be issued only to those who had attended minimum 45 hours of the classes. Questions During the class you can post your questions in window provided for submission of the same. However we would encourage you to please share all your questions through e-‐mail at [email protected]. Link for Registration Registration can be made during June 16, 2020 to June 18, 2020 at https://rmnlu.webex.com/rmnlu/onstage/g.php?MTID=e5d50b94114e83b6744f4ea9e872874d6 Link for joining the classes shall be shared on your email id after you register on the above link. Program Director Dr. Visalakshi Vegesna, HOD, Department of Legal Studies, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow (email – [email protected]) Program Coordinator: CS & IP Amit Gupta, Lucknow For any queries please contact: Mr. Aditya Rathe @ 9532847184, email – [email protected]
Annexure -‐ A Details of topics proposed to be covered
Sr. No.
Title Coverage
1. Corporate Governance framework for listed entities, unlisted entities & family companies
• Basics of Corporate form of business • Broad framework with the help of case studies and
illustrations for listed entities, unlisted entities & family companies
2. Issuance of Securities • Issue of Securities on Right basis • Private Placement, Preferential allotment • Issuance of preference shares, redemption • Issuance of Debentures • Buyback of shares • Valuations requirements in various cases
3. Powers & duties of Board
• Powers of Board • Borrowings • Deposits • Loan to Directors and related entities • Inter-‐corporate Loans & investments • Wholly owned Subsidiaries & Exemptions • Inter play between Layering rules under section
2(87) & 186(1) • Duties of directors
4. Critical Points regarding Accounts & disclosures in Annual Report
• Maintenance of Books of Accounts – Location (electronically/physically)
• Right to inspect • Approval of financial statements • Consolidation of financial statements • Re-‐opening of books of accounts • Voluntary revision of financial statements • Content of Board Report • Content of Annual report
5. Critical issues regarding Audit & Auditors
• Appointment of Auditors – Statutory, Internal, Secretarial
• Casual Vacancy • Removal of Auditor • Disqualifications • Restriction on Services • Fraud Reporting • NFRA • Recent changes in CARO Reporting
6. Corporate Social Responsibility
• Legal framework • Applicability • CSR Committee • Determination of amount required to be spend • CSR Activities, Implementing Agencies • Monitoring • Disclosures • Proposed Changes
7. All about Dividend, IEPF & Key Managerial Personnel
• Conditions for declaration of Dividend • Provision regarding Depreciation • Interim Dividend • Declaration of dividend out of Profits/reserves • Secretarial Standard -‐3 • Transfer of dividend to IEPF • Transfer of shares to IEPF • Appointment of MD/WTD • Remuneration, commission, inadequacy, Schedule
V • Appointment of KMP • Secretarial Audit • Duties of CS
8. Related Party Transactions
• Disclosure of Interest • Interested Director • Identification of Related Parties • Restriction on Voting • Audit Committee Approval • Transaction covered under 188 • Related Parties as per SEBI (LODR) • Restrictions under SEBI LODR on Related Party
Transactions • Disclosure in financial statements • Maintenance of records
9. Corporate Restructuring
• Fast track merger • Restructuring through NCLT route • Compromise & arrangement • Position under Insolvency law • Case studies
10. Oppression & Mismanagement & Class action suits
• What is oppression & management • Eligibility conditions for filing case under section
241 & 242 of the Companies Act, 2013 • Settled positions through various case laws • Landmark judgments • Class action suits
11. Role of a Corporate General Counsel & emerging Alternative dispute resolution mechanism
• Role, Responsibility & Challenges of Corporate General Counsel
• Drafting of agreements/contracts • Negotiations • Arbitration, Mediation, Conciliation • Online process • Opportunities & challenges
12. Overall framework for debt recovery and challenges & Evolution of Insolvency & Bankruptcy law
• SARFAESI • DRT mechanism • Challenges • Important definitions • Who can trigger Insolvency • Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process • Resolution Plan, Liquidation
13. Individual Insolvency & Bankruptcy
• Important definitions • Who can trigger • Difference between insolvency & bankruptcy • Adjudicating authority, Fresh start, Bankruptcy • Undischarged insolvent • Consequences
14. Securities Laws • Compliance framework for listed entities under SEBI (LODR) Regulations, 2015, SEBI (SAST) Regulations & SEBI (PIT) Regulations & other relevant regulations
15. Financial Market Regulations
• Compliance framework in financial market • RBI, NBFC’s, Micro finance • Banking Regulation Act • Money Market Instruments • Government Securities • Foreign exchange, derivatives • Asset reconstruction Companies
16. Competition law • Overview of Competition Act and Abuse of Dominance and its provisions in practice
• Anticompetitive Agreements • Application of Provisions related to
Anticompetitive Agreements to Business Practices • Combinations and its provisions in practice • Application of the Provisions related top
Combination Provisions to Business Practices • Developing Competition Law Compliance
Programme
17. Panel Discussion • Panel discussion on way forward and challenges in Corporate Laws in view of COVID 19 pandemic (Panelist – Vice Chancellors of various National Law Universities, Resource Persons & experts)
Annexure -‐ B Eminent Speakers
(In alphabetical order)
1.
CS Amit Gupta, PCS & IP: CS Amit Gupta is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India & Insolvency Professional, passionately engaged in practice of the profession for the last 19 years in Corporate and allied Laws and providing out-‐of-‐the-‐box solution on complex legal & strategic management issues. He is a Science and Law Graduate and Diploma Holder in Banking & Finance from ICFAI. He is a Member of Northern India Regional Council of ICSI (NIRC) for 2015-‐18 & 2019-‐2022. He is also chairman of Corporate law committee of NIRC and member of Auditing Standards Board. He is keen academician, actively serving the profession and has made significant contribution in various publications released by ICSI and as Member of Secretarial Standards Board for the year 2017 & 2018, Auditing Standards Board for the year 2016, 2017, 2018 & 2019, Research committee, Task force & core groups on corporate law, Core Group on Governance and Compliance Board Report Statement (GCBRS) for the year 2018 and Chairman of Core Group on Corporate Law Publications of ICSI for the year 2018. He has made notable contribution as member of committee constituted for Vision New ICSI 2022 & structuring of new syllabus in the year 2017.
2.
CS Anshul Kumar Jain, General Manager, Reliance Retail Limited: CS Anshul Kumar Jain is a fellow member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI). He has the experience of over 18 years in the field of Corporate Laws, SEBI related matters, Information Technology, Prevention of Money Laundering, Stock Exchange Arbitration, etc. He has worked with the business group and firm like ITC, Edelweiss, Mehta & Mehta, etc. Presently he is working with Reliance Industries Group where he takes care of Retail and Land related entities of the group. Anshul is hard core professional and known for his research on various topics. He helped many Indian companies and MNCs to implement successfully the Companies Act, 2013. He has given more than 150 presentations on various topics. His presentation on Board’s Report is viewed by more than 10,000 people including regulator Ministry of Corporate Affairs and presentation on effective use of IT in profession is viewed by around 15,000 people across the country.
3.
CS G P Madaan, Managing Partner Madaan Law House: G P Madaan, an alumnus of Shri Ram College of Commerce (DU), Law graduate from Campus Law Centre (DU), fellow member of ICSI, besides holding diplomas in Labour Laws and Corporate Laws and Management has vast practical experience of over 34 years in the Corporate Legal, Secretarial, Capital Markets, Financial and Managerial Disciplines. His law firm specialises into Corporate Legal Advisory, Arbitration and Litigation (High Courts and NCLT). He has been Chairman of Institute of Company Secretaries of India – Northern Region in 2005. For the years 2012-‐18, he was Co-‐Chairman of National Council for Mergers & Acquisitions of ASSOCHAM. He has written various articles on different subjects for professional magazines and web portals. He has addressed many Conferences and Seminars organized by various Professional Bodies, Industry Associations, Chambers, Ministries, Universities, Management Institutions and Regulators. He has also conducted and addressed more than 300 workshops on orientation of Boards and Senior Management on diversified subjects prominent being Companies Act, Corporate Governance, Board Practices &Procedures, CSR, Independent Directors, LODR, NCLT and Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code, 2016 and Prevention of Sexual Harassment at Workplace. He has been pioneer in organising Awareness programs on POSH on Indian on pan India basis. His domains of expertise include practice areas and sectors (litigation and advisory) like Insolvency and Bankruptcy Laws, Company Law, Other Corporate Laws, Securities and Capital Market Laws, Dispute Resolution – Litigation, Commercial Arbitration, Mediation and Conciliation , Consumer Affairs and Real Estate – Investments, Exits, Due-‐Diligence and Advisory.
4.
Dr. J N Gupta, Executive Director (Retired) SEBI: Mr. Gupta is the Founder and Managing Director of Stakeholders Empowerment Services. He is ultimately responsible for all aspects of the firm’s strategy, team and operations. He has over 37 years of diversified professional experience in public and private sector including two terms with securities market regulator (SEBI) in India. In his first stint with SEBI (1994-‐96), Mr. Gupta was the Division Chief of Primary and Secondary Market Division. He was the SEBI nominee director on the boards of Pune and Vadodra Stock Exchange. He re-‐joined SEBI in July 2009 as Executive Director for a two year term and was in charge of Market Regulations, Surveillance, Derivatives and New Products departments. He was a member secretary of the Committee headed by Dr. Bimal Jalan, former Governor, RBI, to review market Infrastructure Institutions. He was also SEBI nominee on IOSCO Standing Committee, member of Steering Committee of CPSS-‐IOSCO. Mr Gupta is a B Tech (Electrical Engineering.) from IIT Kanpur (1977), CAIIB (1984), and Certified Financial Analyst, ICFAI (1991). He
started his career with BHEL and later worked with State Bank of India, Indo Gulf Fertilizers Ltd & Grasim Industries Ltd. He also worked with Kazstroyservice Group, Kazakhstan from 2001 to 2009, as Group CFO. He is also a member of International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN). Mr. Gupta is also a member in the following Committees: 1. Capital Markets Committee of CII and ASSOCHAM. 2. Kerala Infrastructure Investment Board (Statutory Body under Govt. of Kerala) independent Board Member & Executive committee member 3. Secretarial Standard Board -‐ ICSI 4. Chairman of Task Force for Audit/Due Diligence/Compliance of SEBI Laws constituted by ICSI 5. Member of Corporate Governance committee constituted by SEBI
5.
DR. K S Ravichandran, PCS, Coimbatore: Dr. Ravichandran has more than 22 years of experience in Corporate Law and IPR related matters. Prior to taking up the profession of Company Secretaries, he had served the Indian Air Force for 9 years in technical stream as a Trained Russian Radar Specialist. He holds a Diploma in Electronics and Radio Communication Engineering awarded by the Indian Air Force and a Diploma in Technology awarded by the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited. He was also a Lecturer in Commerce in Pasighat working for the Government of Arunachal Pradesh for short period. Dr. Ravichandran, a Graduate in Law with a Masters in Commerce, earned his Doctorate from Alagappa University for his thesis titled ‘A study on the Effectiveness of the Present System of Trial of Offences under the Companies Act, 1956 in protecting public interest’. He is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and is also a Member of Secretarial Standards Board (SSB) of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. His areas of expertise include Corporate Restructuring, Protection of Intellectual Property and Alternative Dispute Resolution, Appearance before all quasi-‐judicial bodies for matters on company law and intellectual property rights, Drafting legal petitions, applications covering all Corporate Laws. Dr. Ravichandran is also a prolific writer and speaker. His work has been published in many leading business newspapers, journals and magazines in India. He has also authored several books. He is a member of the INSOL, AIPPI and also Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
6.
CS Krishna Sharan Mishra, PCS, Chennai: He is a member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, New Delhi and a Law Graduate. He is also registered as Trade Marks Attorney with the Trade Marks Registry, India and has Bachelor’s degree in Economics with Honours from Delhi University. He has experience of around 15 years in handling issues in respect of Trade Marks Management, Joint Venture Deals, Advising Corporate Structures, Formation of companies and Trusts, formulation and implementation of Employees Stock Option Plans, Due Diligence, Buy Back of shares, regular Secretarial Compliances. He has worked with Organisations like Polaris Software Lab Limited, Chennai, a listed software company with global presence, Murugappa Group of Companies comprising of listed and unlisted companies & Taj Group of Companies comprising of listed and unlisted companies with global presence. He is a visiting faculty for Company Law in an in-‐house Training Academy in Chennai run by one of the big four consultancy firms. He is also regularly invited by the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Institute of Company Secretaries and several MBA institutes to address. He has interests in freelance writing with articles published in Business Line and a reputed law journal, “Consolidated Commercial Digest”, Chennai. He has also extensively assisted the co-‐authors, Mr. N R Sridharan and Mr. Arvindh Pandian, of “Guide to Takeover and Mergers” published by LexisNexisWadhwa (Formerly Wadhwa Publications) in bringing out the 3rd edition of the book.
7.
CS Pankaj Virmani, General Manager – Corporate Affairs: CS Pankaj Virmani currently General Manager -‐ Corporate Affairs in DLF Limited. He is a commerce and a law graduate. He is an Associate member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. He has over 16 years experience in handling matters relating to M&A, Restructuring, Joint Ventures, Corporate and Securities Laws, Commercial Contracts, Capital Markets, Compliance Management etc. He is a member of Auditing Standard Board of ICSI and a member of task force on companies act. He is a seeker and a Yoga-‐veera. He has delivered many lectures on varieties of topics.
8.
CS Pavan Kumar Vijay, Past President, ICSI & Managing Director Corporate Professionals: CS Pavan Kumar Vijay, Founder Corporate Professionals, is a Fellow Member of the ICSI, holds a Master’s degree in Commerce and a degree in law. He possesses over 27 years of experience in Company Law, Capital Markets & Financial Services. Before founding Corporate Professionals in 2003, he was the Managing Director of BLB Limited, a biggest Corporate Stockbroker
(specializing in arbitrage) of the time. He has the distinct honor of becoming one of the youngest President of the ICSI in the year 2003. Mr. Vijay has richly contributed in number of committees set up by the Government, Regulatory Authorities, Professional bodies, Chambers of Commerce and Industry, etc. He is also actively contributing towards social causes. He is a Member of the Board and Governing Council of VOICE, Member of Advisory Board of Prays Social Welfare society, Faridabad and had been a Trustee/Member of Consumer Education and Research Centre (CERC), Ahmedabad for over a decade. Mr. Vijay was nominated as the Chairman of Secretarial Standards Board of the ICSI for five consecutive terms (2014-‐2018), Chairman, Core Group for Vision New ICSl-‐2022 for the years 2017 and 2018, which besides formulating the Vision New ICSl-‐2022 also restructured the new CS curriculum, Earlier he had been nominated as a Member of Appellate Authority constituted by MCA; Member, Rule making Committee of MCA, for the new Companies Bill; Member, Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA), Convener, Corporate Governance Committee of MCA, Member, Primary Market Committee of SEBI; Member, Mutual Fund Committee of SEBI; Member, Narayan Murthy Committee on Corporate Governance of SEBI, and Chairman/Member of various other committees set up by PHD, ASSOCHAM, BSE, ANMI, etc. Mr. Vijay is a prolific speaker and author. He has delivered over 475 lectures on Corporate Restructuring, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Takeovers, Corporate Governance, Company Law and Securities Law, etc. at various forums such as MCA, ICSI, ICAI, ICMAI, SEBI, IICA, CBI, IIM, ANMI, BSE, CII, PHD and ASSOCHAM other Chambers, DU and Law Colleges, etc. He has appeared on various TV News Channels in Panel discussion, Talk shows, Interviews, etc. and is quite active on social media platform. Mr. Vijay has authored/ co-‐authored several books, articles, research papers, and reports. His bestselling book “Companies Act, 2013 and Rules & Forms with Concise Commentary and Referencer’ has crossed 50,000 mark. The other recent books include “Business Valuation in India-‐Beyond the numbers”, “Compendium on the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code-‐2016” and Handbook of Company Law Procedures. He also has to his credit his well-‐researched and widely acclaimed publications such as “SEBI Takeover Code-‐Open Offers’ “Takeover Queries”, Depositories, Law, Practice & Procedures” and “Guide to Depositories”. His articles have been published in financial dailies, business magazines and journals of repute.
Mr. Vijay is incredibly passionate about learning new things and experimenting on new found skills. He has widely travelled abroad in his quest of learning and imparting his gained knowledge.
9.
CS Rajiv Choubey, Chief Legal Officer and Company Secretary, ACC Limited, part of the Swiss major, LafargeHolcim. He is an alumnus of Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, Indian Law Institute and Indian Society of International Law, New Delhi. As the Head of Legal & Secretarial function and an Executive Committee (EXCOM) member of ACC, Rajiv is responsible for advising the management of all key legal issues related to the entire gamut of business activities of ACC (mining, environment, competition law, corporate commercial, IPR, industrial & labour laws etc.) including, Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC). Rajiv is on the Board of Bulk Cement Corporation Ltd., National Limestone Co. Pvt. Ltd., Lucky Minmat Ltd., Singhania Minerals Pvt. Ltd. and few other JV companies of MP State Mining Corporation Ltd. He is also one of the trustees of ACC Trust, which is engaged in social and CSR work for ACC Ltd. Rajiv has more than two decades of experience in manufacturing as well as IT Company. Prior to joining ACC, he was the General Counsel of HCL Infosystems Ltd., Vice President -‐ Legal & CS of Vedanta Limited and had a brief stints at Maruti Suzuki, Hindustan Tin etc. Rajiv has handled not only governance and compliance in India but also in the US /NYSE during his stint at Sterlite/Vedanta. Rajiv and his team has been recognized by various forums/ bodies, including Indian Corporate Counsel Association (ICCA), Corporate Counsel Association of India (CCAI), Indian National Bar Association (INBA), Legal 500, IDEX, IOD as one of the leading in-‐house counsels/ teams which he has lead. He has been invited by various forum like Economic Times (ET), ICCA, CCAI, INBA, Law & Business Schools/colleges schools to share his experience with students of law and management and also occasionally writes in the journals such as Business Law Journal Tax Guru etc. He has keen interest in sports, photography and likes cooking for his kids and family.
10.
CS Rakesh Puri, Corporate Lawyer: CS Rakesh Puri is a Senior Company Secretary from ICSI, Graduate in Law and is also CPA from USA. He is also member of All India Management Association. With over 25 years of experience, Rakesh Puri has successfully led in house legal teams in complex joint ventures, overseas set-‐ups, FDI / ODI Investments, financing arrangements and providing litigation strategy as well as legal advice and counsel. He has worked as Company Secretary and Head of Legal and Compliance in various listed and MNCs in manufacturing, IT and Financial Services sector like Crompton Greaves, Computer Associates, EMCO, Elara and CLSA. He was responsible for the conduct of Board and Shareholders matters, legal, corporate and regulatory compliances and governance. Rakesh specializes in Banking & Finance, Capital Markets and Securities Laws, Company Law, RBI, FEMA, NBFC, Arbitration and Contracts. He has vast experience with transactions related to fund raising in Capital Markets by way of IPOs, QIPs, Rights and Preferential Issues. He is well versed with Overseas subsidiaries, Foreign Direct Investments & Exchange Controls Regulations. He is quite familiar with regulatory environment in Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai and London. Rakesh has experience of working as Corporate Lawyer at Mumbai. He has represented before DRT, DRAT, RoC, RD, SFIO, Stock Exchanges, SEBI, SAT, RBI, RBI Compounding Authority, RBI Ombudsman, CIT, NCLT, NCLAT and Bombay High Court. Rakesh has also represented SEBI as its Counsel in many cases before SAT. Rakesh is on the Board of few SEBI registered intermediaries. He is a regular speaker at various programs of ICSI and other professional institutions. He was co-‐author of Book “Guidance Note on Internal Audit of Stock Brokers” published by ICSI.
11. CS S Sudhakar, Vice President (Corporate Secretarial), Reliance Industries Limited: CS S Sudhakar is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, ICSA (UK) and a Law graduate. He is having over three and half decades of wide-‐spectrum of experience in Legal, Secretarial, Finance and Accounts fields. He is working as director in several companies. Prior to joining RIL he has worked for about 15 years with Berger paints (India) Limited, as Sr. G.M.(Finance & Accounts).
He is presently Vice-‐Chairman of Secretarial Standards Board of ICSI for the year 2019-‐20 and member of SSB for years 2016, 2017 and 2018, Member Core Group on “Vision New ICSI plan 2022” during 2017, member Vision Implementation Committee of ICSI during 2018, member Corporate Affairs Committee of PHD Chamber of Commerce & Industry for years 2017-‐18, 2018-‐19 and 2019-‐20. He is regular faculty at Institute of Directors (IOD), guest faculty at NISM, Speaker and visiting faculty member at several workshops, seminars and training programs organized by ICSI, ICAI and ICWAI, ASSOCHAM, PHD Chamber of Commerce, Hindustan Chamber of Commerce, Chennai, and Indian Chamber of Commerce, Kolkata & guest speaker at the programs organized by Marcus Evans and Wolters Kluwer’s. He has also been faculty Member for SMTP / MSOP for over 15 years and chairman – Study Circle Committee of NIRC of ICSI for over 12 years. He has contributed several articles on Corporate Laws, Management and Corporate Governance to professional journals and financial news papers besides contribution in the seminars, conferences and study groups.
12.
Surendra U Kanstiya, B.Com., LL.B., FCS, Practicing Company Secretary. He is the first Company Secretary to hold the “Post Membership Qualification in Competition Law” of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, he is also a Fellow of CUTS Centre for Competition, Investment & Economic Regulation (CUTS-‐C-‐CIER). He has authored 6 books and reviewed 9 books. He has contributed over 200 articles in leading journals like Chartered Secretary; Chartered Accountant; Management Accountant; Corporate Law Adviser; SEBI & Corporate Law; Taxmann; Financial Express etc. He has served Consumer Guidance Society of India (CGSI) as General Secretary, Vice Chairman and Chairman. He has also served on the Governing Council of Consumer International (CI) and presently he is a member of the Steering Committee of International Network of Civil Society Organisations on Competition (INCSOC)
13.
CS Thirupal Gorige, PCS & Insolvency Professional, Bengaluru: CS Thirupal Gorige, one of the partners of M/s Thirupal Gorige & Associates LLP, a Company Secretaries Firm, Bengaluru, dealing with various corporate law practices. He is a B.Com, Graduate from Sri Venkateswara University, Thirupati (1996) and a Fellow Member of Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI). Having qualified in year 2001, he was associated as full-‐time Company Secretary with listed & unlisted Companies till July 2004 and then he started his practice in August 2004 for rendering Secretarial, Management, Financial, Taxation and Corporate Legal Services to various corporate clients and other entities. He is also one of the Insolvency Professionals (IP) registered under IBC code with the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) through ICSI-‐IIP. He appears regularly before various authorities like Ministry of Corporate Affairs, National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), Regional Directors, Registrar of Companies, Official Liquidator, Reserve Bank of India so on. He is one of the core resource persons for blue book-‐ “ICSI Premier on Company Law-‐Vol. I & Vol. II” (Commentary on the Companies Act 2013) recently released by ICSI, New Delhi. He was also one of research members of the Company Law Research Team constituted by the Center for Corporate Governance and Research and Training (CCGRT), ICSI, Mumbai for the year 2018. He has been a speaker at various forums, workshops, seminars etc. organized by various institutions and organizations like various chapters of ICSI, ICAI, ICWAI, IIM-‐B, IOD.
MASTER CLASSES ON CORPORATE LAWS
(50 hours Online Educational Certificate Program from Industry Experts) 15 days - June 19, 2020 to July 03, 2020
(7.00 AM to 10.00 AM)
About the Program This unique program is an attempt to bridge the distancing between the academia and Industry in times of social distancing and make generation next prepared as per the expectations of the Industry. The resource persons identified for the classes are experts in their respective areas and have rich experience of 15-25 years. The topics had been selected based on their importance, utility, complexity and Industry requirements. Please refer annexure for indicative topics and resource persons. Who can attend This program is open for all students, research scholars, alumni’s of all National Law Universities and members/students of professional Institutes (ICSI, ICAI & ICMAI). Participation fees, Mode of participation & attendance There is no fee for participation. The classes shall be conducted through online mode. Link for the same shall be sent to email address shared by you in registration form. The certificate of participation shall be issued only to those who had attended minimum 45 hours of the classes. Questions During the class you can post your questions in window provided for submission of the same. However we would encourage you to please share all your questions through e-mail at [email protected]. Link for Registration Registration can be made during June 16, 2020 to June 18, 2020 at https://rmnlu.webex.com/rmnlu/onstage/g.php?MTID=e5d50b94114e83b6744f4ea9e872874d6 Link for joining the classes shall be shared on your email id after you register on the above link. Program Director Dr. Visalakshi Vegesna, HOD, Department of Legal Studies, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow (email – [email protected]) Program Coordinator: CS & IP Amit Gupta, Lucknow For any queries please contact: Mr. Aditya Rathe @ 9532847184, email – [email protected]
Annexure - A Details of topics proposed to be covered
Sr. No.
Title Coverage
1. Corporate Governance framework for listed entities, unlisted entities & family companies
· Basics of Corporate form of business · Broad framework with the help of case studies and
illustrations for listed entities, unlisted entities & family companies
2. Issuance of Securities · Issue of Securities on Right basis · Private Placement, Preferential allotment · Issuance of preference shares, redemption · Issuance of Debentures · Buyback of shares · Valuations requirements in various cases
3. Powers & duties of Board
· Powers of Board · Borrowings · Deposits · Loan to Directors and related entities · Inter-corporate Loans & investments · Wholly owned Subsidiaries & Exemptions · Inter play between Layering rules under section
2(87) & 186(1) · Duties of directors
4. Critical Points regarding Accounts & disclosures in Annual Report
· Maintenance of Books of Accounts – Location (electronically/physically)
· Right to inspect · Approval of financial statements · Consolidation of financial statements · Re-opening of books of accounts · Voluntary revision of financial statements · Content of Board Report · Content of Annual report
5. Critical issues regarding Audit & Auditors
· Appointment of Auditors – Statutory, Internal, Secretarial
· Casual Vacancy · Removal of Auditor · Disqualifications · Restriction on Services · Fraud Reporting · NFRA · Recent changes in CARO Reporting
6. Corporate Social Responsibility
· Legal framework · Applicability · CSR Committee · Determination of amount required to be spend · CSR Activities, Implementing Agencies · Monitoring · Disclosures · Proposed Changes
7. All about Dividend, IEPF & Key Managerial Personnel
· Conditions for declaration of Dividend · Provision regarding Depreciation · Interim Dividend · Declaration of dividend out of Profits/reserves · Secretarial Standard -3 · Transfer of dividend to IEPF · Transfer of shares to IEPF · Appointment of MD/WTD · Remuneration, commission, inadequacy, Schedule
V · Appointment of KMP · Secretarial Audit · Duties of CS
8. Related Party Transactions
· Disclosure of Interest · Interested Director · Identification of Related Parties · Restriction on Voting · Audit Committee Approval · Transaction covered under 188 · Related Parties as per SEBI (LODR) · Restrictions under SEBI LODR on Related Party
Transactions · Disclosure in financial statements · Maintenance of records
9. Corporate Restructuring
· Fast track merger · Restructuring through NCLT route · Compromise & arrangement · Position under Insolvency law · Case studies
10. Oppression & Mismanagement & Class action suits
· What is oppression & management · Eligibility conditions for filing case under section
241 & 242 of the Companies Act, 2013 · Settled positions through various case laws · Landmark judgments · Class action suits
11. Role of a Corporate General Counsel & emerging Alternative dispute resolution mechanism
· Role, Responsibility & Challenges of Corporate General Counsel
· Drafting of agreements/contracts · Negotiations · Arbitration, Mediation, Conciliation · Online process · Opportunities & challenges
12. Overall framework for debt recovery and challenges & Evolution of Insolvency & Bankruptcy law
· SARFAESI · DRT mechanism · Challenges · Important definitions · Who can trigger Insolvency · Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process · Resolution Plan, Liquidation
13. Individual Insolvency & Bankruptcy
· Important definitions · Who can trigger · Difference between insolvency & bankruptcy · Adjudicating authority, Fresh start, Bankruptcy · Undischarged insolvent · Consequences
14. Securities Laws · Compliance framework for listed entities under SEBI (LODR) Regulations, 2015, SEBI (SAST) Regulations & SEBI (PIT) Regulations & other relevant regulations
15. Financial Market Regulations
· Compliance framework in financial market · RBI, NBFC’s, Micro finance · Banking Regulation Act · Money Market Instruments · Government Securities · Foreign exchange, derivatives · Asset reconstruction Companies
16. Competition law · Overview of Competition Act and Abuse of Dominance and its provisions in practice
· Anticompetitive Agreements · Application of Provisions related to
Anticompetitive Agreements to Business Practices · Combinations and its provisions in practice · Application of the Provisions related top
Combination Provisions to Business Practices · Developing Competition Law Compliance
Programme
17. Panel Discussion · Panel discussion on way forward and challenges in Corporate Laws in view of COVID 19 pandemic (Panelist – Vice Chancellors of various National Law Universities, Resource Persons & experts)
Annexure - B Eminent Speakers
(In alphabetical order)
1.
CS Amit Gupta, PCS & IP: CS Amit Gupta is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India & Insolvency Professional, passionately engaged in practice of the profession for the last 19 years in Corporate and allied Laws and providing out-of-the-box solution on complex legal & strategic management issues. He is a Science and Law Graduate and Diploma Holder in Banking & Finance from ICFAI. He is a Member of Northern India Regional Council of ICSI (NIRC) for 2015-18 & 2019-2022. He is also chairman of Corporate law committee of NIRC and member of Auditing Standards Board. He is keen academician, actively serving the profession and has made significant contribution in various publications released by ICSI and as Member of Secretarial Standards Board for the year 2017 & 2018, Auditing Standards Board for the year 2016, 2017, 2018 & 2019, Research committee, Task force & core groups on corporate law, Core Group on Governance and Compliance Board Report Statement (GCBRS) for the year 2018 and Chairman of Core Group on Corporate Law Publications of ICSI for the year 2018. He has made notable contribution as member of committee constituted for Vision New ICSI 2022 & structuring of new syllabus in the year 2017.
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CS Anshul Kumar Jain, General Manager, Reliance Retail Limited: CS Anshul Kumar Jain is a fellow member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI). He has the experience of over 18 years in the field of Corporate Laws, SEBI related matters, Information Technology, Prevention of Money Laundering, Stock Exchange Arbitration, etc. He has worked with the business group and firm like ITC, Edelweiss, Mehta & Mehta, etc. Presently he is working with Reliance Industries Group where he takes care of Retail and Land related entities of the group. Anshul is hard core professional and known for his research on various topics. He helped many Indian companies and MNCs to implement successfully the Companies Act, 2013. He has given more than 150 presentations on various topics. His presentation on Board’s Report is viewed by more than 10,000 people including regulator Ministry of Corporate Affairs and presentation on effective use of IT in profession is viewed by around 15,000 people across the country.
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CS G P Madaan, Managing Partner Madaan Law House: G P Madaan, an alumnus of Shri Ram College of Commerce (DU), Law graduate from Campus Law Centre (DU), fellow member of ICSI, besides holding diplomas in Labour Laws and Corporate Laws and Management has vast practical experience of over 34 years in the Corporate Legal, Secretarial, Capital Markets, Financial and Managerial Disciplines. His law firm specialises into Corporate Legal Advisory, Arbitration and Litigation (High Courts and NCLT). He has been Chairman of Institute of Company Secretaries of India – Northern Region in 2005. For the years 2012-18, he was Co-Chairman of National Council for Mergers & Acquisitions of ASSOCHAM. He has written various articles on different subjects for professional magazines and web portals. He has addressed many Conferences and Seminars organized by various Professional Bodies, Industry Associations, Chambers, Ministries, Universities, Management Institutions and Regulators. He has also conducted and addressed more than 300 workshops on orientation of Boards and Senior Management on diversified subjects prominent being Companies Act, Corporate Governance, Board Practices &Procedures, CSR, Independent Directors, LODR, NCLT and Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code, 2016 and Prevention of Sexual Harassment at Workplace. He has been pioneer in organising Awareness programs on POSH on Indian on pan India basis. His domains of expertise include practice areas and sectors (litigation and advisory) like Insolvency and Bankruptcy Laws, Company Law, Other Corporate Laws, Securities and Capital Market Laws, Dispute Resolution – Litigation, Commercial Arbitration, Mediation and Conciliation , Consumer Affairs and Real Estate – Investments, Exits, Due-Diligence and Advisory.
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Dr. J N Gupta, Executive Director (Retired) SEBI: Mr. Gupta is the Founder and Managing Director of Stakeholders Empowerment Services. He is ultimately responsible for all aspects of the firm’s strategy, team and operations. He has over 37 years of diversified professional experience in public and private sector including two terms with securities market regulator (SEBI) in India. In his first stint with SEBI (1994-96), Mr. Gupta was the Division Chief of Primary and Secondary Market Division. He was the SEBI nominee director on the boards of Pune and Vadodra Stock Exchange. He re-joined SEBI in July 2009 as Executive Director for a two year term and was in charge of Market Regulations, Surveillance, Derivatives and New Products departments. He was a member secretary of the Committee headed by Dr. Bimal Jalan, former Governor, RBI, to review market Infrastructure Institutions. He was also SEBI nominee on IOSCO Standing Committee, member of Steering Committee of CPSS-IOSCO. Mr Gupta is a B Tech (Electrical Engineering.) from IIT Kanpur (1977), CAIIB (1984), and Certified Financial Analyst, ICFAI (1991). He
started his career with BHEL and later worked with State Bank of India, Indo Gulf Fertilizers Ltd & Grasim Industries Ltd. He also worked with Kazstroyservice Group, Kazakhstan from 2001 to 2009, as Group CFO. He is also a member of International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN). Mr. Gupta is also a member in the following Committees: 1. Capital Markets Committee of CII and ASSOCHAM. 2. Kerala Infrastructure Investment Board (Statutory Body under Govt. of Kerala) independent Board Member & Executive committee member 3. Secretarial Standard Board - ICSI 4. Chairman of Task Force for Audit/Due Diligence/Compliance of SEBI Laws constituted by ICSI 5. Member of Corporate Governance committee constituted by SEBI
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DR. K S Ravichandran, PCS, Coimbatore: Dr. Ravichandran has more than 22 years of experience in Corporate Law and IPR related matters. Prior to taking up the profession of Company Secretaries, he had served the Indian Air Force for 9 years in technical stream as a Trained Russian Radar Specialist. He holds a Diploma in Electronics and Radio Communication Engineering awarded by the Indian Air Force and a Diploma in Technology awarded by the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited. He was also a Lecturer in Commerce in Pasighat working for the Government of Arunachal Pradesh for short period. Dr. Ravichandran, a Graduate in Law with a Masters in Commerce, earned his Doctorate from Alagappa University for his thesis titled ‘A study on the Effectiveness of the Present System of Trial of Offences under the Companies Act, 1956 in protecting public interest’. He is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and is also a Member of Secretarial Standards Board (SSB) of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. His areas of expertise include Corporate Restructuring, Protection of Intellectual Property and Alternative Dispute Resolution, Appearance before all quasi-judicial bodies for matters on company law and intellectual property rights, Drafting legal petitions, applications covering all Corporate Laws. Dr. Ravichandran is also a prolific writer and speaker. His work has been published in many leading business newspapers, journals and magazines in India. He has also authored several books. He is a member of the INSOL, AIPPI and also Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
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CS Krishna Sharan Mishra, PCS, Chennai: He is a member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, New Delhi and a Law Graduate. He is also registered as Trade Marks Attorney with the Trade Marks Registry, India and has Bachelor’s degree in Economics with Honours from Delhi University. He has experience of around 15 years in handling issues in respect of Trade Marks Management, Joint Venture Deals, Advising Corporate Structures, Formation of companies and Trusts, formulation and implementation of Employees Stock Option Plans, Due Diligence, Buy Back of shares, regular Secretarial Compliances. He has worked with Organisations like Polaris Software Lab Limited, Chennai, a listed software company with global presence, Murugappa Group of Companies comprising of listed and unlisted companies & Taj Group of Companies comprising of listed and unlisted companies with global presence. He is a visiting faculty for Company Law in an in-house Training Academy in Chennai run by one of the big four consultancy firms. He is also regularly invited by the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Institute of Company Secretaries and several MBA institutes to address. He has interests in freelance writing with articles published in Business Line and a reputed law journal, “Consolidated Commercial Digest”, Chennai. He has also extensively assisted the co-authors, Mr. N R Sridharan and Mr. Arvindh Pandian, of “Guide to Takeover and Mergers” published by LexisNexisWadhwa (Formerly Wadhwa Publications) in bringing out the 3rd edition of the book.
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CS Pankaj Virmani, General Manager – Corporate Affairs: CS Pankaj Virmani currently General Manager - Corporate Affairs in DLF Limited. He is a commerce and a law graduate. He is an Associate member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. He has over 16 years experience in handling matters relating to M&A, Restructuring, Joint Ventures, Corporate and Securities Laws, Commercial Contracts, Capital Markets, Compliance Management etc. He is a member of Auditing Standard Board of ICSI and a member of task force on companies act. He is a seeker and a Yoga-veera. He has delivered many lectures on varieties of topics.
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CS Pavan Kumar Vijay, Past President, ICSI & Managing Director Corporate Professionals: CS Pavan Kumar Vijay, Founder Corporate Professionals, is a Fellow Member of the ICSI, holds a Master’s degree in Commerce and a degree in law. He possesses over 27 years of experience in Company Law, Capital Markets & Financial Services. Before founding Corporate Professionals in 2003, he was the Managing Director of BLB Limited, a biggest Corporate Stockbroker
(specializing in arbitrage) of the time. He has the distinct honor of becoming one of the youngest President of the ICSI in the year 2003. Mr. Vijay has richly contributed in number of committees set up by the Government, Regulatory Authorities, Professional bodies, Chambers of Commerce and Industry, etc. He is also actively contributing towards social causes. He is a Member of the Board and Governing Council of VOICE, Member of Advisory Board of Prays Social Welfare society, Faridabad and had been a Trustee/Member of Consumer Education and Research Centre (CERC), Ahmedabad for over a decade. Mr. Vijay was nominated as the Chairman of Secretarial Standards Board of the ICSI for five consecutive terms (2014-2018), Chairman, Core Group for Vision New ICSl-2022 for the years 2017 and 2018, which besides formulating the Vision New ICSl-2022 also restructured the new CS curriculum, Earlier he had been nominated as a Member of Appellate Authority constituted by MCA; Member, Rule making Committee of MCA, for the new Companies Bill; Member, Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA), Convener, Corporate Governance Committee of MCA, Member, Primary Market Committee of SEBI; Member, Mutual Fund Committee of SEBI; Member, Narayan Murthy Committee on Corporate Governance of SEBI, and Chairman/Member of various other committees set up by PHD, ASSOCHAM, BSE, ANMI, etc. Mr. Vijay is a prolific speaker and author. He has delivered over 475 lectures on Corporate Restructuring, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Takeovers, Corporate Governance, Company Law and Securities Law, etc. at various forums such as MCA, ICSI, ICAI, ICMAI, SEBI, IICA, CBI, IIM, ANMI, BSE, CII, PHD and ASSOCHAM other Chambers, DU and Law Colleges, etc. He has appeared on various TV News Channels in Panel discussion, Talk shows, Interviews, etc. and is quite active on social media platform. Mr. Vijay has authored/ co-authored several books, articles, research papers, and reports. His bestselling book “Companies Act, 2013 and Rules & Forms with Concise Commentary and Referencer’ has crossed 50,000 mark. The other recent books include “Business Valuation in India-Beyond the numbers”, “Compendium on the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code-2016” and Handbook of Company Law Procedures. He also has to his credit his well-researched and widely acclaimed publications such as “SEBI Takeover Code-Open Offers’ “Takeover Queries”, Depositories, Law, Practice & Procedures” and “Guide to Depositories”. His articles have been published in financial dailies, business magazines and journals of repute.
Mr. Vijay is incredibly passionate about learning new things and experimenting on new found skills. He has widely travelled abroad in his quest of learning and imparting his gained knowledge.
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CS Rajiv Choubey, Chief Legal Officer and Company Secretary, ACC Limited, part of the Swiss major, LafargeHolcim. He is an alumnus of Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, Indian Law Institute and Indian Society of International Law, New Delhi. As the Head of Legal & Secretarial function and an Executive Committee (EXCOM) member of ACC, Rajiv is responsible for advising the management of all key legal issues related to the entire gamut of business activities of ACC (mining, environment, competition law, corporate commercial, IPR, industrial & labour laws etc.) including, Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC). Rajiv is on the Board of Bulk Cement Corporation Ltd., National Limestone Co. Pvt. Ltd., Lucky Minmat Ltd., Singhania Minerals Pvt. Ltd. and few other JV companies of MP State Mining Corporation Ltd. He is also one of the trustees of ACC Trust, which is engaged in social and CSR work for ACC Ltd. Rajiv has more than two decades of experience in manufacturing as well as IT Company. Prior to joining ACC, he was the General Counsel of HCL Infosystems Ltd., Vice President - Legal & CS of Vedanta Limited and had a brief stints at Maruti Suzuki, Hindustan Tin etc. Rajiv has handled not only governance and compliance in India but also in the US /NYSE during his stint at Sterlite/Vedanta. Rajiv and his team has been recognized by various forums/ bodies, including Indian Corporate Counsel Association (ICCA), Corporate Counsel Association of India (CCAI), Indian National Bar Association (INBA), Legal 500, IDEX, IOD as one of the leading in-house counsels/ teams which he has lead. He has been invited by various forum like Economic Times (ET), ICCA, CCAI, INBA, Law & Business Schools/colleges schools to share his experience with students of law and management and also occasionally writes in the journals such as Business Law Journal Tax Guru etc. He has keen interest in sports, photography and likes cooking for his kids and family.
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CS Rakesh Puri, Corporate Lawyer: CS Rakesh Puri is a Senior Company Secretary from ICSI, Graduate in Law and is also CPA from USA. He is also member of All India Management Association. With over 25 years of experience, Rakesh Puri has successfully led in house legal teams in complex joint ventures, overseas set-ups, FDI / ODI Investments, financing arrangements and providing litigation strategy as well as legal advice and counsel. He has worked as Company Secretary and Head of Legal and Compliance in various listed and MNCs in manufacturing, IT and Financial Services sector like Crompton Greaves, Computer Associates, EMCO, Elara and CLSA. He was responsible for the conduct of Board and Shareholders matters, legal, corporate and regulatory compliances and governance. Rakesh specializes in Banking & Finance, Capital Markets and Securities Laws, Company Law, RBI, FEMA, NBFC, Arbitration and Contracts. He has vast experience with transactions related to fund raising in Capital Markets by way of IPOs, QIPs, Rights and Preferential Issues. He is well versed with Overseas subsidiaries, Foreign Direct Investments & Exchange Controls Regulations. He is quite familiar with regulatory environment in Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai and London. Rakesh has experience of working as Corporate Lawyer at Mumbai. He has represented before DRT, DRAT, RoC, RD, SFIO, Stock Exchanges, SEBI, SAT, RBI, RBI Compounding Authority, RBI Ombudsman, CIT, NCLT, NCLAT and Bombay High Court. Rakesh has also represented SEBI as its Counsel in many cases before SAT. Rakesh is on the Board of few SEBI registered intermediaries. He is a regular speaker at various programs of ICSI and other professional institutions. He was co-author of Book “Guidance Note on Internal Audit of Stock Brokers” published by ICSI.
11. CS S Sudhakar, Vice President (Corporate Secretarial), Reliance Industries Limited: CS S Sudhakar is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, ICSA (UK) and a Law graduate. He is having over three and half decades of wide-spectrum of experience in Legal, Secretarial, Finance and Accounts fields. He is working as director in several companies. Prior to joining RIL he has worked for about 15 years with Berger paints (India) Limited, as Sr. G.M.(Finance & Accounts).
He is presently Vice-Chairman of Secretarial Standards Board of ICSI for the year 2019-20 and member of SSB for years 2016, 2017 and 2018, Member Core Group on “Vision New ICSI plan 2022” during 2017, member Vision Implementation Committee of ICSI during 2018, member Corporate Affairs Committee of PHD Chamber of Commerce & Industry for years 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20. He is regular faculty at Institute of Directors (IOD), guest faculty at NISM, Speaker and visiting faculty member at several workshops, seminars and training programs organized by ICSI, ICAI and ICWAI, ASSOCHAM, PHD Chamber of Commerce, Hindustan Chamber of Commerce, Chennai, and Indian Chamber of Commerce, Kolkata & guest speaker at the programs organized by Marcus Evans and Wolters Kluwer’s. He has also been faculty Member for SMTP / MSOP for over 15 years and chairman – Study Circle Committee of NIRC of ICSI for over 12 years. He has contributed several articles on Corporate Laws, Management and Corporate Governance to professional journals and financial news papers besides contribution in the seminars, conferences and study groups.
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Surendra U Kanstiya, B.Com., LL.B., FCS, Practicing Company Secretary. He is the first Company Secretary to hold the “Post Membership Qualification in Competition Law” of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, he is also a Fellow of CUTS Centre for Competition, Investment & Economic Regulation (CUTS-C-CIER). He has authored 6 books and reviewed 9 books. He has contributed over 200 articles in leading journals like Chartered Secretary; Chartered Accountant; Management Accountant; Corporate Law Adviser; SEBI & Corporate Law; Taxmann; Financial Express etc. He has served Consumer Guidance Society of India (CGSI) as General Secretary, Vice Chairman and Chairman. He has also served on the Governing Council of Consumer International (CI) and presently he is a member of the Steering Committee of International Network of Civil Society Organisations on Competition (INCSOC)
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CS Thirupal Gorige, PCS & Insolvency Professional, Bengaluru: CS Thirupal Gorige, one of the partners of M/s Thirupal Gorige & Associates LLP, a Company Secretaries Firm, Bengaluru, dealing with various corporate law practices. He is a B.Com, Graduate from Sri Venkateswara University, Thirupati (1996) and a Fellow Member of Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI). Having qualified in year 2001, he was associated as full-time Company Secretary with listed & unlisted Companies till July 2004 and then he started his practice in August 2004 for rendering Secretarial, Management, Financial, Taxation and Corporate Legal Services to various corporate clients and other entities. He is also one of the Insolvency Professionals (IP) registered under IBC code with the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) through ICSI-IIP. He appears regularly before various authorities like Ministry of Corporate Affairs, National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), Regional Directors, Registrar of Companies, Official Liquidator, Reserve Bank of India so on. He is one of the core resource persons for blue book- “ICSI Premier on Company Law-Vol. I & Vol. II” (Commentary on the Companies Act 2013) recently released by ICSI, New Delhi. He was also one of research members of the Company Law Research Team constituted by the Center for Corporate Governance and Research and Training (CCGRT), ICSI, Mumbai for the year 2018. He has been a speaker at various forums, workshops, seminars etc. organized by various institutions and organizations like various chapters of ICSI, ICAI, ICWAI, IIM-B, IOD.
