Col. Rajiv Kakra has had a rich and varied journey in the legal profession. In his army career spanning over 34 years, he was directly involved in service matters. His specific expertise revolves around strategy planning, human resource management, training and development, conflict management/resolution, general administration, security management and disaster/crisis management.

Col Kakra has diverse experience in administrative and quasi-judicial roles in civil and criminal matters. He also has immense experience at the district, state and national level in a diverse spectrum of areas including revenue adjudication and environment.

Payal Kakra is a legal professional with close to two decades of experience, with an impressive repertoire of legal cases having appeared before various courts and commissions. With exposure to diverse spheres of research work, documentation and drafting of various pleadings, she has handled a wide range of cases, related to Intellectual Property Laws, Telecommunication and Media and Entertainment Laws, Consumer Disputes, Oil & Gas, Insurance Laws etc. She also advises in respect of structuring of the transaction, leading the due diligence, drafting various contractual agreements and documents, negotiating the deals and providing overall transactional support including regulatory approvals, etc. from Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the Foreign Investment Promotion Board of India (FIPB) and the Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI). Apart from this, she has expert knowledge in the Energy Sector with specialization in upstream Oil and Gas, having looked after the regulatory and compliance aspects on behalf of her clients.

Payal has also had experience in advising banks and financial institutions in relation to the restructuring of debt obligations under the corporate debt restructuring. She has also been involved in matters relating to RDDBFI Act and SARFAESI Act which includes Arbitration matters; matters relating to NPAs and proceedings under Debt Recovery Tribunal.

Over the years, she has gained specialization in negotiating and drafting documents relating to commercial, operational, contractual arrangements, service level agreements and policy formulation with various regulatory bodies. She also advises on compliance in connection with corporate laws applicable to listed as well as unlisted entities. She has also advised several multinational and Indian companies, on various matters involving inter-alia, strategy, negotiations and implementation of the transactions in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, compliance of various cross border and domestic rules and regulations.

Her efforts are also extended to the social front, as she has significant exposure in regulatory and compliance work with respect to the environmental clearances. As a strong believer in equality at work place, Payal takes special interest in laws which promote the same and has helped many a corporations design and lay out their policies on Prevention of Sexual Harassment at workplace and handled with much expertise various matters pertaining to the same as well.

A lawyer armed with a business degree, Ajay Pratap Singh is well conversant with the national and international business environment having over two decades of experience in various sectors, especially in Media & Entertainment. His advisory has also extended to sectors such as Aviation, Real Estate and Government Administration and excels in combining strategic insight, business acumen and resource planning skills. Ajay has guided the launch of many channels having obtained licenses/approvals from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting under the up-linking and down-linking guidelines. He has been directly involved in operational and legal affairs of Media Companies, as an in-house and other industries as Consultant. Apart from that he has handled delicate issues of Public Policy and has a keen interest and considerable knowledge in legal aspects of polity, governance and matters pertaining to the Constitution of India.   Given that a business vision is an important pre-requisite for a legal advisor, Ajay provides continuing legal advice to a number of the Firm’s domestic and international clients, ranging from start-up ventures to publicly held corporations. He also advises overseas companies in setting up business operations in India, and assists them in setting up subsidiaries / branches / liaison office, real estate acquisition by way of buyout, lease or leave and license, obtaining various statutory registrations and conducting corporate compliance and legal audits.   Ajay is also a strong believer in pro-bono work and takes strong initiative to indulge in activities that help the lesser privileged members of the society.

Mr. Ujjwal Narayan is an astute and result-oriented professional having over two decades of extensive and rich experience in managing the entire business operations. He has strong business acumen with a proven track record of formulating a wide range of sales and marketing, business development, market communication strategies to establish market presence; increase revenues and profitability in the Telecom, Energy and Water Industry. He has vast experience as an entrepreneur with specialisation in business development, strategic investment and technology collaborations. He has attained outstanding success in building and maintaining relationships with key corporate decision-makers, establishing large-volume, high-profile accounts with excellent level of retention and loyalty. He has also executed assignments in the areas of Corporate Business Development, Product Development, Technical as well as Business feasibility analysis for Mergers & Acquisitions