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Sumit Agrawal, Regstreet Law Advisors

Sumit Agrawal

Regstreet Law Advisors
Mumbai

Contact
Tel: +91 99 87729337
Email: sumit@regsla.com

India Future Legal Leaders 2021

Practice areas

Corporate & commercial; corporate governance; financial regulation; white-collar crime

Introduction

Sumit founded Regstreet Law Advisors after his experience of almost a decade at SEBI. Sumit is one of the most respected practitioners in the financial regulatory space. He advises corporates, commodity and stock exchanges, intermediaries as well as their promoters, key management and investors, on various issues.

He has extensively handled matters related to SEBI, the stock exchanges, IRDAI (insurance regulator) and the appellate body, the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT).

Sumit also advises clients on regulatory requirements for obtaining registrations and recognition of products with regulators such as SEBI, RBI, IRDAI, PFRDA and IBBI.

At SEBI, Sumit worked with various verticals viz. integrated surveillance, legal affairs and regulatory policy, commodities derivatives, enforcement and litigation. He was part of the Chief Justice NK Sodhi Committee to formulate insider trading regulations and assisted in investigating the IPO scam (Roopalben Panchal scam) and the Satyam scam.

He also played a key role in formulating norms for tackling fraud and unfair trade practices, registration of intermediaries, disclosures in public issues, the framework for the rejection of offer documents, merger of erstwhile Forward Markets Commission (FMC) with SEBI and defended SEBI’s power to seek phone call records.

Sumit had also assisted SEBI, MCA and the Ministry of Finance, the government of India, in bringing parliamentary amendments to securities laws, in addition to handling inter-regulatory issues within India and internationally.

Since starting his entrepreneurial venture, Sumit has advised a variety of clients from regulators and exchanges such as IRDAI, NCDEX, BSE; listed conglomerates and market intermediaries including the Piramal Group, Raymond, HT Media, Nippon Mutual Fund, Brickwork Ratings, Kotak Securities, Raine Group, BOC Group; and high net-worth individuals, promoters and KMPs such as Rakesh Jhunjhunwala (Rare), Vivek Mehrotra, Abhay Gandhi (Sun Pharma), SB Mainak (LIC/ CARE), etc.

As a legal and regulatory expert, Sumit is often quoted in the media. He is a visiting faculty at various institutions, including at the National Institute of Securities Markets (NISM), Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) and various national law universities. He is also a member of the advisory board of the Government Law College, Mumbai for its postgraduate securities law course.

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