Insolvency, Doing Business in India, Mergers & Acquisitions, Foreign Exchange Management 

Manish Kumar Sharma has recently joined the league of Insolvency Professionals by clearing IBBI’s Insolvency Professionals Examination. Manish is a qualified Company Secretary and Advocate with almost two decades of legal experience. He has led various transactions related to foreign investments, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and, regulatory & general corporate advisory.

With combination of his professional qualification and diverse experience, he has advised clients in:

structuring of transactions in compliance with foreign exchange laws.b. acquisition of listed companies in compliance with Takeover

Regulations, and unlisted companies.c. Private equity investments, with advice on entry and exit strategies to foreign investors.d. Conducting legal due diligences.e. Providing advice on general corporate and other issues.f. Seeking approvals and registrations with various regulators and authorities.

He has been successfully taking ahead firm’s commendable track record of about two decades in M&A activities and conducting legal due diligences. He has rendered legal advice and assisted many companies in multimillion dollar capital market transactions of domestic public issues and rights issues, overseas listing including Global Depository Receipt (GDR), Foreign Currency Convertible Bond (FCCB) issues and Alternative Investment Market (AIM) listing.

Manish has also advised clients across continents including S&P Global Inc., USA; Kingfa Sci. & Tech. Co. Ltd, China; McGraw Hill, USA; WSP Group; Simplot, USA; Sig Sauer Inc USA; SABIA Inc. USA; Mertex, UK; Arab Potash Company (APC), Jordan; G.N. Store, Nord, Denmark; and Standard & Poor’s South Asia Services Private Limited.

Manish frequently speaks in various fora, his views were appreciated in the Conference on Overseas Fund Raising by Indian Corporates, Conference on Listing by Indian Corporates in Alternative Investment Market-London Stock Exchange (Organized by PHDCC), and Important Aspects of Shareholders Agreement. He has also appeared as a spokesperson on the corporate law show “The Firm” on CNBC TV 18, for SEBI related matters. He has also spoken on ‘Anti-Corruption laws in India’ in American Bar Association conference held in Tokyo, Japan.

Bar Council of India, Delhi Fellow member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India Delhi High Court Bar Association

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B.Com (Hons.) (1990) Hansraj College, Delhi University Company Secretary from Institute of Company Secretaries of India (1994) L.L.B. (1997), Delhi University Certified Insolvency Professional (2018)