Parag has over three decades of corporate experience in handling legal functions of various reputed companies. At Bharat Forge, he played a strategic legal role by anticipating, identifying and mitigating legal risks for its various turnkey projects, contracts and M&A transactions. He was instrumental in setting up the legal department, designing legal policies, devising various SOPs and standardizing agreements at both Alfa Laval and Syngenta in India. He has handled various special projects like legal due diligence, legal audits, litigation analysis and remedies in both these multinational companies.

Parag was also the head of the legal department at both Suzlon and VA Tech Wabag. At Wabag, he was responsible for drafting various deeds and documents with respect to EPC projects apart from vetting, negotiating and finalizing pre-bid agreements, consortium agreements, joint venture agreements, shareholders agreements, cross border agreements etc. He is proficient in drafting and vetting of various types of contracts and corporate agreements like Marketing agreements, distribution agreements, agency/consultancy agreements, service agreements, advertisement/publicity agreements, affidavits, bank guarantees, indemnities, power of attorneys, authority letters, comfort letters, technology transfer and license agreements.

His expertise includes contracts negotiation, conflict management, dispute resolution, commercial arbitration, conciliation and legal liasoning at ministerial and governmental levels. Parag is a commerce graduate and has a degree in Law from ILS Law College, Pune.

Sandeep Sukumar is an accomplished expert in company law and FEMA compliances. With years of experience, Sandeep has conducted secretarial audits for numerous listed companies. He has a strong track record of advising various boards on critical corporate secretarial and legal matters and has been actively involved in due diligence processes for a diverse range of companies. Notably, Sandeep has played a significant role in the IPOs of many organizations, offering invaluable guidance to company secretarial teams from their early stages as private entities through the process of going public.

Sandeep is the Founder and Managing Partner of S Sandeep & Associates, a reputed company secretary firm based out of Chennai with presence in Bengaluru. Furthermore, he is a registered valuer holding a certificate of registration and practice from the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Board of India.

Sandeep is a fellow member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree in addition to a degree in law.

Vivek is a Chartered Accountant with over 25 years of corporate experience across the financial services sector comprising multinational banks, insurance companies, non-banking finance companies etc. in both India and Middle East. Prior to his banking stint at Arab Bank Plc, BankMuscat International and Venture Capital Bank, Vivek was employed with Ernst & Young and KPMG. Vivek was the Chief Risk Officer for the Muthoot Pappachan Group which had diverse interests ranging from real estate to NBFCs. Muthoot Fincorp Limited, Muthoot Capital Services, Muthoot Microfin Limited, Muthoot Housing Finance Limited are some of the NBFCs under the group which Vivek was associated with during his corporate stint.

For the past 15 years, Vivek has been a critical sounding board for the Boards of a number of organizations and has been widely recognised for providing advisory roles on sustainable business models, building efficiencies in business processes and in performance measurement of organizations. His expertise extends to growth as well as rapid turnaround environments. Vivek was conferred with the maiden India Risk Manager Award in 2013 (instituted by ICICI Lombard and ET Now).

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Maxin is a qualified Company Secretary with more than a decade’s experience in Corporate Governance, Compliance and Risk management. He was previously the Company Secretary and Compliance Officer of Muthoot M George Group and its flagship Company Muthoot Finance Ltd. Maxin has handled more than 15 Debt IPOs, Equity Listing, Acquisition and Takeovers assignments. He advises clients on various listing compliances, Debt Issues including CPs and NCDs. Maxin is an expert on NBFC matters, Capital Market and Structuring advisory. He has hands-on experience in dealing with Stock Exchanges, SEBI, MCA and RBI on various compliance matters and regulatory coordination.

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Rajiv is the Founder Director & CEO of Beyond Compliance. Rajiv has over two decades of corporate boardroom experience serving as the Company Secretary and Compliance Officer of renowned Indian-listed companies such as Spencers, Mahindra Holidays, VA Tech Wabag, Biocon etc. During his corporate stint, he gained extensive hands-on experience on board processes and functioning having served various boards with the likes of eminent board members such as Mr.Sanjiv Goenka, Mr.Keki Mistry, Ms. Rama Bijapurkar, Mr. Jerry Rao, Mr. Sridar Iyengar, Mr.M Damodaran, Ms. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw etc. to name a few. He was actively involved in the successful IPO of Mahindra Holidays in the year 2009. During his stint with Wabag, he was in charge of the global compliance function and was responsible for statutory compliances of more than twenty of Wabag’s foreign subsidiaries. At Wabag, he also assumed the responsibility of heading its Investor Relations function. He has vast experience in setting up & liquidating companies globally. He has incorporated entities in Bahrain, Malaysia, Oman, Philippines, Qatar, Singapore, Spain, Thailand and UAE and has liquidated companies in Algeria, China and Hong Kong. During the period 2018 to 2022, Rajiv was the Sr. Partner of M Damodaran & Associates LLP, a premier firm of practicing company secretaries based out of Chennai and Bengaluru.

A commerce graduate by qualification, Rajiv is a bachelor of Academic law and a fellow member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. He also holds a postgraduate degree in Human Resources Management from Pondicherry University.

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Badri has more than 7 years of experience in handling and advising on statutory audits of listed entities/large unlisted entities, FPOs, review and implementation of the internal control system, performing risk assessment, corporate governance compliance and advisory etc.

Badri’s expertise lies in Corporate Insolvency Resolution, Liquidation Advisory, Stressed Asset Management, MSME Advisory and Compliance, M&A Advisory, Restructuring & Turnaround, Resolution Plan Advisory, OTS Settlement, Audit & Assurance, Corporate Governance Advisory, Risk Assessment and Control, Audit of Social enterprises, ESG/Sustainability Reporting/ESG Policy Formulation and facilitating and assisting in legal representation/legal opinion on complex corporate law matters.

Badri has led expert teams on corporate insolvency resolution and liquidation under IBC where his core expertise is in resolution (even under liquidation) and out-of-court settlements. Apart from Insolvency matters, he engages with clients on advisory services relating to corporate law matters and sustainability reporting.

An avid writer, Badri has published in various reputed Professional and International Journals including ICAI, ICSI, FTCCI Review, Director’s Today, and International Corporate Rescue (“ICR”).

He is a guest faculty for the ICSI Institute of Insolvency Professionals, National Institute of Securities Market (“NISM”), wherein he regularly conducts seminars/workshops on IBC, arbitration/mediation etc and has been a speaker at the physical seminar(s) conducted by ICSI on Social Stock Exchange/Social Audit.

Badri is a Chartered Accountant and a qualified Company Secretary with a graduation in law from the prestigious Faculty of Law, University of Delhi. He is a 1st division postgraduate in commerce from Delhi University. He has completed various ICAI certifications including Certification in Forensic Accounting & Fraud Detection, Certification in Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting, Certification in IBC, Certificate Course on MSME etc.

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