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India Outbound Investment Forum 2012July 5 2012 • Trident, Nariman Point, Mumbai

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Patrick AngRajah & Tann LLP

Patrick is currently the Deputy Managing Partner of the firm, and Head of the firm’s Regional Practices. He was previously the Head of the firm’s Business Finance & Insolvency practice group.

He has 23 year experience handling contentious and non-contentious matters. His recent high profile cases include representing the liquidators of Lehman Brothers Singapore and the Asia Pacific entities of Nortel Networks.

He has also acted in disputes (both in Court and before international arbitral tribunals) arising from or relate to M&A transactions in Asia involving cross border issues. In this aspect, he has represented corporate from Singapore, Malaysia, India, China, Japan and Indonesia, and also from the US and Europe. He has been consistently recognised as a leading lawyer internationally, in Asia and in Singapore in his field in consecutive years by Asian Legal Business Legal, Who’s Who Singapore, AsiaLaw Leading Lawyers, Asia Law & Practice, Asialaw Profiles, International Who’s Who of Insolvency and Restructuring Lawyers, Euromoney Guide To The World’s Leading Insolvency and Restructuring Lawyers, International Financial Law Review 1000, Asia Pacific Legal 500 and Chambers Global - The World’s Leading Lawyers.

Sanjay BhandarkarRothschild

Sanjay Bhandarkar heads Rothschild’s operations in India. He has over 20 years experience in Investment banking.

During his career with Rothschild, Sanjay has advised on a variety of corporate finance transactions including the Government of India on the 3G and BWA auctions; Aircel on the sale of its towers business to GTL; Suzlon on its debt restructuring discussions with international lenders, shareholders of MTR Foods on its sale to Orkla; Intermet Europe to Sakthi Auto; Azure Solutions Limited UK on its acquisition by Subex Systems Limited India; GVK-South African consortium on its bid for Mumbai airport privatisation; Indian Lenders on restructuring and sale of Dabhol Power Company, India’s largest and most complex restructuring; Indian Lenders on sale of Daewoo car assets; AXA on its life insurance joint venture with the Bharti Group; the Government of Karnataka on the privatisation of electricity distribution companies; the Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Limited on pre-privatisation matters; ONGC on its bid for Enron’s upstream assets in India; the Aditya Birla Group on acquisition of the Nifty Copper mine in Australia; National Grid on its bid for the Tale transmission facility; the Sri Lankan government on the financial evaluation of bids received from international power developers to build the 180 MW Kelanitissa project.

Sanjay has a degree in Management from XLRI, Jamshedpur. Prior to joining Rothschild in 1998, Sanjay worked with Peregrine Capital and ICICI Securities and Finance Company Limited.

Yee Leong ChongRajah & Tann LLP

Yee Leong has been practicing for more than 20 years. He is recognised as a leading international arbitration lawyer in the Asia-Pacific region by a leading global ranking publication and is one of seven leading arbitration practitioners in the world nominated in 2011 for the Global Arbitration Review’s award for Advocate of the Year, the only Asian to be short-listed. He heads the International Arbitration and Construction Practice Group in Rajah & Tann LLP and is concurrently the principal partner of M/s Kamilah & Chong in Malaysia. He was a partner at Jones Day, an international law firm, from 2003 to 2007 and headed the International Litigation and Arbitration Group in Singapore.


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Roy DeyholosTorys LLP

Ron Deyholos is a partner at Torys LLP, an internationally recognized law firm in Canada with offices in Toronto, Calgary and New York. Ron’s practice focuses on the energy sector, with an emphasis on oil and gas law. He advises on all aspects of the development and operation of energy projects, including major offshore oil and gas and oil sands. He has been recognized by Chambers and Partners, Lexpert/Thomson Canada and Law Business Research as a leading Canadian practitioner. Ron also has extensive experience advising on renewable energy sources, including cogeneration and wind power projects.

As head of the firm’s Calgary office and Torys’ Oil and Gas Practice, Ron is active in Canada’s booming natural resource sector. He has represented foreign and domestic companies with respect to joint venture arrangements to develop Canadian oil sands and major gas projects, including PTT Exploration and Production Public Company in its US$2.28 billion acquisition of a 40% partnership interest in Statoil Canada Partnership; UTS Energy in its C$1.5 billion plan of arrangement with Total E&P Canada; Husky Oil China on matters pertaining to Husky’s joint ventures with China National Offshore Oil Corporation; Enerplus Resources Fund in its cross-border acquisition of a working interest in certain areas in the Marcellus shale natural gas play; and he acted for Husky Oil in its contract with Seadrill to provide a deep-water semi-submersible drilling rig for use in China’s offshore waters.

Before joining Torys, Ron was a partner at another major Canadian law firm, where he was a key player in growing its oil and gas initiative. As a member of various legal and industry associations such as the Canadian Bar Association’s Natural Resources and International Business Law Subsections, the Canadian Petroleum Law Foundation and the International Bar Association’s Section on Energy and Resources Law, he stays on top of developing issues in this complex, evolving and specialized field.

Gaurav GuptaMacquarie Capital

Gaurav has over 15 years of corporate finance and advisory experience having advised Indian and International clients on domestic and cross border M&A, and Capital Market transactions.

Gaurav has worked with several Indian Corporate such as Reliance, Adani, Essar, GVK, Lanco, Jindal, Bennett Coleman, Dr Reddy’s, DLF, Axis Bank, etc.

He has successfully closed transaction in Sectors such as Resources, Infrastructure, Financial services, TMT etc. Prior to joining Macquarie, Gaurav worked with Nomura, Lehman, Rothschild and Arthur Andersen.

Gaurav is a qualified accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

Wilton HenriquesCrompton Greaves

Wilton Henriques is a Chartered Accountant, a Company Secretary, and a post graduate in Law. He has over 27 years of experience, and with his earlier Organisations, has held several managerial positions in Finance, Treasury, Accounts, Legal and Secretarial. He has been with Crompton Greaves (CG) for the last 16 years. For the last 11 years, Mr Henriques was also the Global Head of Human Resources for CG Group worldwide, which position he has recently relinquished due to his increasing involvement with Avantha and other areas within CG.

Mr. Henriques has the global responsibility for the Legal, Governance and Risk Management functions of CG


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and its joint venture companies. As President, within Avantha, he also leads the Avantha Group initiatives for Governance, Risk, Legal and Secretarial, in addition to his responsibilities in CG.

Due to his increasing involvement with Avantha and other areas within CG, Mr. Henriques has recently relinquished his HR role in CG.

Ranbir HunjanClifford Chance

Ranbir is a partner based in the London office of Clifford Chance in the banking and finance practice.

Ranbir specialises in Asset and Project finance with a particular focus on Transportation & Infrastructure, and Energy & Renewables. Ranbir has been acting on India related matters for over 20 years and is recognised by Chambers as one as the leading practitioners in this area. Ranbir is a director of CC Asia Limited and a core member of the Clifford Chance India Group.

Gaurav KhungarReligare Capital Markets

Gaurav Khungar is a Career Investment Banker for over 17 years with a successful record of conceptualizing, identifying, originating and closing ECM, M&A (Buy-side and Sell-side including significant cross-border experience) & PE transactions across different sectors in the middle market with an overall work experience of 20 years;

Gaurav has had exposure to different work environments and organizations requiring understanding of various markets, and has had M&A visibility in USA, UK, Europe, Japan, SEA and organizations such as Bank of America, Lazards, Rabobank, KPMG & Religare

Gaurav has anchored strategic responsibility for sectors and businesses in domestic and global platforms and has been appointed to National & International leadership roles; In 2003, he was responsible for KPMG receiving an award for “The Deal of the year in Emerging Markets” 2003 for the Punjab Tractors transaction. He has a successful transaction record with Voltas (Tata Group), India Foils (Vedanta Group), CMC, Indo Tech Transformers, Alcan, Take Solutions, Endurance Technologies amongst many others. Gaurav’ role at Religare Capital Markets Ltd as a Managing Director encompasses responsibility to build & develop Investment Banking Strategy, Senior Sponsor Coverage, Corporate Finance and Global M&A alliances.

Brijesh KoshalDaiwa Capital Markets

Brijesh Koshal has total experience of about three decades as a commercial banker, Investment Banker and in Corporate Finance. He has led investment banking/ advisory/ AMC companies, since 1992. His recent sector specialization is Infrastructure, Pharmaceuticals, FIG, mining, Realty and Power. He has been involved in infrastructure sector businesses – capital market, advisory and restructuring etc. since 2001.

Prior to joining Daiwa as Managing Director – Investment Banking, he was the Head of Infrastructure and Construction Sector at Enam. As an Investment Banker he has also worked with Taib Bank and India Securities Limited. While he was part of India’s early power generation company in the private sector – Essar Power Limited, he also headed Banking Relationships for Essar group, a US$ 10 Bn resources to shipping conglomerate.


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Brijesh has done more than 60 transactions in Public and Private Equity markets, Debt and Advisory business – Business restructuring and M&A. He has led teams for in-bound and out-bound cross border M&A transactions and he has been the advisor to India’s one of the fastest cross border acquisition deals – done in 3 months and covering India, US and Brazil.

Brijesh has strong relationships with Indian corporate houses at decision maker’s level. Additionally, he has received media recognition for innovative methods used in marketing offers.

He has authored several articles in leading Indian Business magazines for over 15 years on topics like M&A, Mutual Funds, ECM etc. Since 1995, he has been featured on business TV channels and print media. Also , he has been a part of various panel discussions. He has been a visiting faculty to management institutes in India.

He is currently engaged in a few cross border transactions between Europe-India-Asia Pacific, Europe-Middle-East-India, India-Japan and India–USA-LATAM. He is exploring more possibilities for cross border business between India –Japan. He is also engaged in exploring African business for Indian corporate houses in mining business.

Patricia KovalTorys LLP

Patricia Koval is a partner at Torys LLP, an internationally recognized law firm in Canada with offices in Toronto, Calgary and New York. Ranked globally by leading directories such as Chambers and Partners, Lexpert and Law Business Research as one of Canada’s leading lawyers, Pat focuses on corporate finance and securities law, mergers and acquisitions, mining and corporate governance.

As Co-Chair of Torys’ India initiative, she is active in many transactions between Canada and India. Among others, she led the global team which represented Hindalco Industries in its acquisition of Novelis and related global financings and AV Transworks in its acquisition of Minacs Worldwide. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Canada-India Business Council, and of its Mining Committee.

Pat regularly acts for issuers, financial advisers and potential acquirors in structuring acquisitions, dispositions and reorganizations, including takeover bids, arrangements, privately negotiated acquisitions and going-private transactions. She also regularly acts for issuers and investment dealers in structuring international, cross-border and domestic public and private financings of equity, debt and other securities, and in the design of enhanced or new financial products and services.

As an authority on corporate and M&A transactions in Canada, she is frequently sought after for domestic and international business conferences, having authored numerous articles in these areas. She is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where she has taught a course for many years on Mergers & Acquisitions, and she is also now teaching a hands-on course on M&A to practicing lawyers and businessmen registered in the Graduate Professional L.L.M. programme. Pat also advises on Canada/India educational opportunities as a member of Osgoode Hall Law School’s South Asian Advisory Council.


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Niten MalhanWalburg Pincus

Niten Malhan is a Managing Director with Warburg Pincus. He has been with Warburg Pincus since 2001, is co-head of the firm’s Mumbai office and focuses on the firm’s investment activities in India. Previously, he worked as an engagement manager with McKinsey & Company in New Delhi, Jakarta and Boston and was a director of business development for a Silicon Valley start-up.

Mr. Malhan is a director of ACB (India), Alliance Tire, DB Corp, Diligent Power, Havells India, Lemon Tree Hotels, Metropolis Healthcare and Punj Lloyd. He also serves on the board of the Indian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association and co-chairs the Private Equity sub-group of the Capital Markets Committee for the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).

Mr. Malhan holds a B.S. in computer science and engineering from IIT-Delhi, and an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Priya MehraGibson Dunn

Priya Mehra is a senior associate in the Singapore office of Gibson Dunn. Her areas of practice include mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity, privatization, capital markets and general corporate advice.

Ms. Mehra has an extensive background working in the Indian markets and her experience includes advising foreign investors in formation of joint ventures in India and/or acquiring stakes in Indian companies; advising private equity investors on the most viable investment options in India vis-à-vis foreign investment guidelines; advising Indian companies in forming joint ventures and acquiring stakes in overseas companies; and advising Indian and foreign investors in acquiring government equity in public sector undertakings, including advice on key issues related to status of government companies and implications of change in status.

Ms. Mehra’s capital markets experience includes assistance in initial public offerings, follow-on public offerings, rights offerings, and private placements, representing issuers and investment banks, advising in connection with Securities Exchange Board of India Rules and Regulations and assistance in Rule 144A and Regulation S transactions by Indian companies.

Ms. Mehra has also worked on project finance transactions in advising major international energy companies. She also advises on statutory compliance under the Indian Companies Act, Foreign Exchange, Securities, Labor and Environmental laws.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Ms. Mehra worked in the Singapore office of Jones Day (2007-2008). She was previously a senior associate in one of India’s leading law firms (2002-2007).

Ms. Mehra received an LL.B. in 2002 from the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, and a B.A. (Hons) in 1999 from Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi. Ms. Mehra is admitted to practice in India and is admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England & Wales. She is fluent in English and Hindi.


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Vivekananda N.Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC)

As Deputy Head (South Asia) with the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), Vivekananda heads the India initiatives of the SIAC. He is involved in the proposed establishment of SIAC’s first overseas office in Mumbai, India with a view to promoting SIAC in India and the South Asia region. He also assists in case administration.

Vivekananda graduated from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India. He was called to the Indian Bar in July 2006 and worked for two years with a Senior Counsel in the Supreme Court of India. He subsequently joined the Dispute Resolution and Litigation team of a major Indian law firm based in New Delhi, India.

As a Senior Associate with the firm, he has had experience in dealing with arbitrations and commercial and other litigations in several fora in India.

Rajiv NayarCitigroup

Rajiv is a Managing Director and Head of Capital Markets Origination for Citigroup in India.

Rajiv has over 25 years broad based banking experience with Citi in both emerging and developed markets in leveraged and acquisition finance, project and export finance and corporate banking as well as risk and portfolio management. Prior to relocating to India in 2010, Rajiv was a member of Citi’s Asia Pacific Leveraged & Acquisition Finance Team where he led a number of deal teams that provided financing commitments for acquisitions for leading corporations and private equity firms in the region including ASEAN, China, Taiwan, Korea and India. These included a number of notable and landmark transactions such as the GBP3.7 Billion financing for Tata Steel’s acquisition of Corus Group in 2007 as well as the refinancing of Tata Motors Bridge Facility for the acquisition of Jaguar Land Rover in 2009, both of which were executed in challenging market conditions. In addition, Rajiv led the Citi team that committed a US$14.0 billion acquisition debt facility for Essar Group’s bid for Hutchison Essar which remains the largest ever underwriting commitment for the region.

Rajiv started his banking career with Citi in India. Prior to moving to Hong Kong in 2005, Rajiv worked with Citi in London for over 12 years, initially in the Emerging Markets Corporate Finance Group and subsequently with the European Portfolio Management Group. Rajiv is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

Robert NoronhaDeloitte Touche Tohmatsu India

Robert is on a long term secondment to the Deloitte Mumbai office from the Toronto, Canada office since 2008. He previously worked for 5 years with Arthur Andersen India from 1991-96.

Robert has led transaction support engagement teams on several complex, large, multi location M&A transactions for strategic investors and private equity firms.

He advises clients with respect to deal execution, financial due diligence and providing innovative transaction solutions and deal insight.


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Robert has led over 100 M&A transactions in Canada, India and globally. He is a Chartered Accountant from India and Canada. He has over 20 years of experience in public practice and M&A Transaction Services.

Robert spends significant time supporting Indian mining and oil and gas companies in cross border acquisitions.

Santosh ParabInfrastructure Development Finance Company

Mr. Parab is a post graduate in law. Mr. Parab has over 17 years of experience in the legal sector. He has worked with IDBI for 5 years before joining IDFC. During the last twelve years he has been involved in dealing with legal and other issues arising our of documentation relating to financing of various infrastructure project financed by IDFC. Apart from project financing he was worked on documents for bidding of projects, setting up third party funds, investment and acquisition documents. He was a member of IDFC team, which handled various advisory assignments, entrusted to IDFC by Ministry of Surface Transport and National Highways Authority of India which included drafting of Model Concession Agreement for Toll Roads (below Rs. 100 crore), advising NHAI on bidding processes for various projects. He was a member of IDFC team, which worked on various assignments including, Corporatisation of Ennore Port, advising corporates for bidding for the transmission projects, Government of Kerala assignment which involves review of existing legal and regulatory framework for the road sector in the State of Kerala and suggest changes, amendments necessary for development of road sector through private participation.

Jai PathakGibson Dunn

Jai Pathak is the Partner-in-Charge of the firm’s Singapore office and the South and Southeast Asia region. He is also a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.

With over 25 years of experience, Mr. Pathak has been actively assisting our clients in the Indian market or Indian clients with business needs outside India. He has extensive experience in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, takeovers, dispositions, privatizations, joint ventures, licensing, infrastructure development, as well as private equity and structured finance transactions.

Mr. Pathak handles transactions across the board in India. He is currently working on transactions in the TMT, retail, financial services, infrastructure and real estate development sectors.

Mr. Pathak sits on Boards in India and Singapore, including as Chairman of the iGate-Patni Board, and as a member of the Timken India Board.

Chambers & Partners Global and Chambers & Partners Asia Pacific 2012 editions rank Mr. Pathak as a leading lawyer for Corporate/M&A in both India and Singapore. In addition, Mr. Pathak was presented the “National Law Day Award – 2001” by the Indian Council of Jurists for his unique contribution to the development of Indian corporate law. He also won the “Best Corporate Lawyer” award at Asian Legal Business’s Legal Who’s Who Singapore 2003.

Mr. Pathak graduated from law school (B.A. (Hons. in Jurisprudence)) from Oxford University in 1984 (M.A., 1989) and received his LL.M from the University of Virginia in 1985. He previously earned his B.A. (Hons.) and M.A. degrees from the University of Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.


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Prakash PillaiRajah & Tann LLP

Prakash is the Head of the Firm’s South Asia Practice and a Partner in the Firm’s International Arbitration Practice Group.

Prakash’s main focus is on international commercial arbitration and on commercial litigation. He has extensive experience in international commercial arbitration and commercial litigation work and has appeared in a broad spectrum of contentious matters before various arbitral tribunals, as well as the High Court and Court of Appeal of Singapore. He has also acted in a number of significant and landmark cases in the areas of shareholders’ disputes, commercial, contractual and tortious disputes, defamation, restitutionary claims, insolvency litigation and property-related disputes. Many of the disputes he has handled have arisen or have been connected with the Indian market.

Prakash graduated from Queen Mary College, the University of London and has a Masters degree in law from the University of Cambridge. He is also a Barrister-at-law at the Middle Temple in London.

Prakash sits on a number of boards in Singapore and is the Vice-Chairman of the Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry. He also sits on various committees of the Law Society of Singapore and the Singapore Academy of Law. Prakash was a national and school chess player in his youth and won many prizes and medals in chess competitions.

Mark PoultonClifford Chance

Mark is a partner based in the London office of Clifford Chance specialising in corporate/M&A work.

Mark is a director of CC Asia Limited and co-heads Clifford Chance’s Corporate India focus. He has over 20 years’ experience in public and private corporate mergers and demergers, acquisitions and disposals, restructurings, structured financings and joint ventures. He has acted on a significant number of cross-border deals across a wide range of industry sectors.

Sudipta RouthLuthra & Luthra

Sudipta is a partner with Luthra & Luthra Law Offices in Mumbai. Sudipta has over 15 years of experience and is a versatile dual qualified lawyer (India and England & Wales) with a master’s degree in International Banking and Finance.

Sudipta’s area of expertise includes cross-border banking and finance and international Mergers & Acquisition. He has diverse experience and has represented both international and domestic clients in a variety of cross-border acquisition financing and corporate transactions.

Sudipta has routinely led and supervised multi-jurisdictional and multi-departmental teams in acquisition transactions out of India and London. Prior to joining Luthra & Luthra, Sudipta practiced out of London with a magic circle firm. Sudipta has acted on and advised in a variety of bilateral, club and syndicated transactions in challenging emerging economies (like India, Russia, Turkey, Egypt, Iraq and Bulgaria) and across diverse sectors (such as telecom, steel, real estate, media and power).

Sudipta has structured, negotiated and closed several cross-border transactions as local lead counsel in India. He has extensive experience in structuring Joint Ventures, formulating entry and investment strategies and


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acquisitions for international clients. Equally, he has routinely advised domestic clients in overseas acquisitions and joint ventures. He has been currently involved in structuring overseas funding strategies for domestic clients, where he combines his international experience in financing transactions with emerging markets expertise in M&A transactions.

Vijay SampathBharti Enterprises

Vijaya Sampath is a Senior Partner heading the corporate practice of Lakshmikumaran and Sridharan. She is also the Ombudsperson and was previously the Group General Counsel and Company Secretary for the Bharti group in India and overseas. Vijaya has worked as a partner in the corporate practice of a national law firm as well as in house legal counsel in large multinationals and Indian groups.

With over 30 years of experience, she has successfully led in-house legal teams in complex joint ventures, cross border acquisitions, PE investments, financing arrangements and international commercial arrangements, providing high-end litigation strategy as well as legal advice and counsel. As Company Secretary, she was responsible for the conduct of Board and shareholder meetings of listed and closely held group companies, legal, corporate and regulatory compliances and preserving the highest standards of transparency and governance. Besides a degree in English literature and law, she is a fellow member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. She has attended the Advanced Management Program in Harvard Business School and the Strategic Alliances Program at Wharton.

Mohit SarafLuthra & Luthra

Mohit Saraf is a senior partner with Luthra & Luthra Law Offices, one of the leading law firms of India and recipient of various national and international awards. He heads the entire corporate practice of the firm and personally spends a majority of his time advising on M&A and private equity transaction. Within M&A, he advises extensively on the takeovers of manufacturing businesses in India.

During the past year, Mr. Saraf has advised on several major transactions, including Abbott Laboratories’ USD 3.72 billion acquisition of Piramal Healthcare Solutions. He has also advised the TATA group on their joint venture agreement with Starbucks. Some of his other recent transactions include the USD 1.19 billion acquisition (including acquisition finance) of Whyte & Mackay (a scotch company by United Spirits), and the acquisition of Shyam Telecom by Sistema (USD 700 million). He had also advised on the merger of Air India and Indian Airlines, the two national airline companies of India.

Clients of Mr. Saraf include Arcelor Mittal, Abbott Laboratories, United Spirits, Kingfisher Airlines, CapitaLand, Moser Baer, AXA SA (France), Sesa Goa, Roca Corporation Empresarial, Sistema, Mylan, DLF, Blackstone, DE Shaw, Great Offshore, One Equity, Lehman Brothers, Oman Investment, Merill Lynch, Kliener Perkins, Avenue Capital, Qatar Investments, Abu Dhabi Investments, and Istithmar, among others. He is listed as a Band 1 M&A lawyer in Chambers Asia Leading Lawyers, ILFR 1000, Asia Pacific Legal 500 and Practical Law Company. He was also recognized as a Who’s Who Business Lawyer. Mohit Saraf was noted as one of Asia’s top 25 M&A lawyers in 2009 by ALB and was also honored by ALB HOT 100 as one of the top performing lawyers for 2009.

Mr. Saraf has been awarded the ‘Shaurya Chakra’, a national peacetime gallantry award by President Mr. R. Venkatraman.


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Pramo SelvaratnamGoldman Sachs

Pramo is an Executive Director in Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs India and has been with the firm for 8 years. He covers the Natural Resources, Energy and Power sectors in India. Prior to Moving to India in 2008, Pramo was a part of the Natural Resources Financing, and Investment Banking Groups in Goldman Sachs New York.

His experience includes leveraged buyouts, equity and M&A transactions in the sector. Prior to investment banking, Pramo began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers, following which he attended Harvard Business School.

Pramo was also a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the AICPA and PICPA, and has a BA in Economics and Business Administration from Franklin & Marshall College.

Atulya SharmaDeutsche Bank

Atulya Sharma holds a Master’s degree in Law from City University, London and a PG Bachelors Degree in Law (LLB) from Delhi University. He has been working in the legal profession for nineteen years and his experience covers a wide spectrum of legal practice. Focus areas are project finance, private equity, M&A, structured products, corporate finance, banking, restructuring and complex litigations. Has extensive experience in working with different organizations and cultures worldwide.

Mr. Sharma joined DB as Director and Head of Legal in India in the beginning of 2007. Before coming to DB, he was the General Counsel for the IDFC Group in India. Before IDFC, Mr. Sharma was a Senior Partner in a leading Indian law firm. Mr. Sharma was also a Senior Counsel in the World Bank Group’s private equity arm, International Finance Corporation (IFC).

Bharat VasaniTata Sons

Mr. Bharat Vasani (53) is a renowned corporate lawyer in India with international reputation. Presently, he is the General Counsel for the Tata Group, a position which he has held for over a decade.

Mr. Vasani has over 3 decades of experience at a senior management level in successfully managing the in-house legal departments of large corporations with international operations. He is reputed for having the most diverse corporate legal experience, ranging from Mergers and Acquisitions to handling high-profile litigations.

Mr. Vasani has extensive experience in negotiating joint ventures and collaborations; corporate restructuring, commercial contracts, and has been actively involved in several large international M&A transactions. His key strength is his people’s skill. He is highly regarded in Government circles and in various Chambers of Commerce for his pro-active approach on public policy issues. His views were sought by the Government of India on diverse matters including the new Companies Bill, the Competition Act, as also the drafting of several new legislations in India.

Mr. Vasani has participated in several international conferences and training programmes at the Harvard Law School and the Harvard Business School and has spoken at a large number of international seminars on various subjects, including Corporate Governance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Insider Trading, Takeover Code, Constitutional issues, etc.


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Mr. Vasani is reputed for his strong domain knowledge of corporate laws and has a good overview of laws of different jurisdictions.

Mr. Vasani has won several awards, including the IFLR Award 2010 for his outstanding achievements and the Legal Era Award for the Best General Counsel of the Year 2011.

Sara WilshawHigh Commission of Canada to India

After completing her studies in International Relations and Economics at York University in Toronto, Canada, Sara joined the Foreign Service in 1996. Her career at Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada has seen her posted to the high-tech commercial section in Tokyo and on the IP file at the Permanent Mission of Canada to the WTO in Geneva. In Ottawa, she has had assignments covering East Asia (Korea and Japan), Multilateral Trade Policy, Human Resources and Strategic Policy; leading the team that laid the groundwork for Canada’s Global Commerce Strategy.

As the head of the Trade Commissioner Service Support division, Sara successfully managed a $5 million Client Service Fund and tabled the Government’s Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy for the Extractive Sector. Before being posted to India in 2011, Sara was the Director-General of the Office of the Chief Trade Commissioner of Canada.

In her current role as Minister (Commercial) and Trade Program Manager at the High Commission of Canada to India, Sara is responsible for advancing Canada’s commercial relationship with India, Nepal and Bhutan; and for providing leadership and guidance to the 12 trade and investment offices Canada has located across South Asia.

Christoph WitteClifford Chance

Christoph is a partner based in the Düsseldorf office of Clifford Chance specializing in Corporate / M&A work.

Christoph coordinates the India-Germany activities of the firm having advised on numerous India related transactions. He is recognized by Chambers as an expert for India related work. He regularly advises corporate and financial investor clients on acquisitions, disposals, restructurings and joint ventures. He has a particular focus on multi-jurisdictional work and on regulated industries such as energy and healthcare.

Kumar SambasivanSuzlon Energy

Kumar is a post graduate in Commerce and Law Graduate from Madras University and has over 20 years of experience spanning various aspects of legal functions. Kumar started his career as an Advocate in the Office of Mr. AC Muthanna, Senior Advocate at Madras High Court specializing in civil, criminal and commercial laws. Subsequently, he joined the TTK Group in Bangalore. After nine years he left TTK as a Deputy General Manager and went on to work with the GMR Group to focus on the then growing infrastructure sector. He has subsequently worked with HCL Technologies as a specialist for their M&A team and Punj Lloyd as Head of Legal. He moved to Mumbai to head the legal function for Essar Projects. Presently Kumar works with Suzlon Energy in Pune Kumar’s strengths include project contracting, M&A, compliance, claims & dispute management and business collaborations.


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Vishnukumar BansalMorgan Stanley

Sharad JhinganLanco Infratech

Supratim SarkarSBI Capital Markets


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SPEAKER CONTACT INFORMATION

Patrick AngRajah & [email protected]

Vishnukumar BansalMorgan [email protected]

Sanjay [email protected]

Yee Leong ChongRajah & [email protected]

Roy [email protected]

Gaurav GuptaMacquarie Capital [email protected]

Wilton HenriquesCrompton [email protected]

Ranbir HunjanClifford [email protected]

Sharad JhinganLanco [email protected]

Gaurav KhungarReligare Capital [email protected]

Brijesh KoshalDaiwa Capital [email protected]

Patricia [email protected]

Niten MalhanWarburg [email protected]

Priya MehraGibson [email protected]

Vivekananda [email protected]

Rajiv [email protected]

Robert NoronhaDeloitte Touche Tohmatsu [email protected]

Santosh ParabInfrastructure Development Finance [email protected]

Jai PathakGibson [email protected]

Prakash PillaiRajah & [email protected]

Mark PoultonClifford [email protected]

Sudipta RouthLuthra & [email protected]

Kumar SambasivanSuzlon [email protected]

Vijay SampathBharti [email protected]

Mohit SarafLuthra & [email protected]

Supratim SarkarSBI Capital [email protected]

Pramo SelvaratnamGoldman [email protected]

Atulya SharmaDeutsche [email protected]

Bharat VasaniTata [email protected]

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