Founder

Bharath Veeraraghavan is a lawyer and a Company Secretary. His work career spans over 30 years commencing 1986 during the course of which he has held joint positions of General Counsel and Company Secretary in large listed companies in the UB Group including Best & Crompton Engineering Limited (an engineering company), Herbertsons Limited (a liquor company which was merged into United Spirits Limited, Kingfisher Airlines Limited (a scheduled passenger airline) and Oberoi Realty Limited (a realty company). He was also the Head of Compliance, Internal Controls and Internal Audit for J.M.Financial Investment & Consultancy Services, a large investment bank and Head of Compliance for Peregrine Fixed Income Limited.

His functional area during his career in the role of Company Secretary and Head of Compliance has covered corporate secretarial areas like incorporation of companies, board meetings, shareholder meetings, compliance with various statutes including filing of forms/returns with various regulatory authorities like the Registrar of Companies, Reserve Bank of India etc., Provident Fund Commissioner, etc. and obtaining approvals where required and representing the company before these regulatory authorities. He has also been in-charge of due diligence for acquisitions, mergers, investments by various investment vehicles and other investment related activities including for a GDR issue. He has handled public issues, rights issues, de-listing offers, open offer under the SEBI Takeover Regulations, been involved in the drafting and vetting of offer documents in respect of these offers. He has also created compliance check-lists and modules for various compliance requirements. He was also in charge of protecting the intellectual property rights of the companies he worked for.

In his role as General Counsel he has been responsible for advising management on legal and statutory requirements for the business and the organisation, drafting and negotiation of contracts including cross border contracts covering aircraft acquisition and leasing, software related contracts, MRO contracts, liquor business related contracts like manufacturing agreements, bottling agreements, brand related agreements, and all other contracts across all functions of the relevant companies including labour law related contracts. He was also head of litigation in all the companies that he worked for which included commercial litigation, intellectual property litigation, defending hostile take-over bids and all kinds of litigation across various courts and tribunals in India, Hong Kong, USA and the UK. He has also been involved in dispute resolution through arbitration in India.