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Mr. Pavan Kumar Vijay is a distinguished professional with over 32 years of experience in Company Law, Capital Markets, Corporate Restructuring & Transaction Advisory. As Founder of Corporate Professionals, he leads a group of dedicated, research-oriented, and skilled professionals, delivering innovative, value-added, and techno-legal business solutions through a unique model of integrated legal and financial consulting services. Mr. Vijay has a track record of accomplishments in various fields. In 2003, he became one of the youngest Presidents of the ICSI (Institute of Company Secretaries of India), demonstrating his leadership skills. Before founding Corporate Professionals in 2003, he served as the Managing Director of BLB Limited, the biggest Corporate Stockbroker (specializing in arbitrage) at that time. Mr. Vijay is known for his innate talent to think differently, endowed with creativity, innovation, and a penchant for technology. He anticipated the future of Startups long before they gained popularity. He founded an IT Venture called www.takeovercode. com which received the ‘TATA NEN Hottest Startups Award 2008’, for being the most innovative business model. CP, under his visionary guidance, continues to develop new technology-driven applications. Mr. Vijay has served in a number of committees set up by the Government, Regulatory Authorities, Professional Bodies, Chambers of Commerce, and Industry. He is Chairman, ASSOCHAM Task Force on Corporate Restructuring and M&A, Member of the Board and Governing Council of VOICE (pioneer consumer organisation in India), and Member of the Advisory Board of Prayas Social Welfare Society. Mr. Vijay was Chairman of Secretarial Standards Board of the ICSI (2014-2018), Chairman, Core Group for Vision New ICSI- 2022, Member, Appellate Authority constituted by Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) under the Company Secretaries Act, Member, Rule Making Committee for framing rules under the new Companies Bill, Member, Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs(IICA), Convener, Corporate Governance Committee of MCA, Member, Primary Market Committee, SEBI, Member, Mutual Fund Committee, SEBI, Member, Narayan Murthy Committee on Corporate Governance, Member, Expert Group constituted by SEBI to review Share Based Employee Benefit and Issue of Sweat Equity Regulations. He has also been a Trustee/Member of Consumer Education and Research Centre (CERC), Ahmedabad. He has been the Chairman of M &A National Council of ASSOCHAM for five consecutive terms and Chairman, Company Law & Corporate Affairs Committee of PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, besides being a Member of various committees set up by NSE, BSE, ANMI, etc. Mr. Vijay is a prolific speaker and has delivered over 485+ lectures on Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Corporate Governance, Insolvency, Company, Competition and Securities Law at various forums. He has authored/ co-authored several books on Company Law, Insolvency Law, Securities Laws, Takeover Code, Depositories, and Valuation. His book on Company Law is widely acclaimed and has been the best seller. He regularly contributes articles to leading professional journals and appears in Panel discussions and Interviews on the media. Mr. Vijay strongly believes in sharing and imparting knowledge and has inculcated a unique culture of knowledge sharing in CP. The initiatives include providing the corporates and professionals with legal and regulatory updates through real-time CP Shorts, CP Newswire & monthly bulletin CP Connect. He undertook a unique initiative in April 2020 when CP started hosting webinars on every Friday of the week on contemporary topics, addressed by Regulators, Industry leaders, and leading professionals. These interactive webinars have gained immense popularity, and over 96000 professionals, Business and Industry leaders from all across India and abroad have registered for 125+ webinars organized so far, and this journey continues. The webinars have drawn great appreciation from the Government, Regulators, Legislators, and Participants for education and dissemination of knowledge, promoting and propagating Good Governance and Compliance Culture, providing feedback to regulators on changes in law, sharing a knowledge repository through videos and FAQs, etc. He has extensively travelled, including the USA, UK, Russia, France, Ireland, Austria, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Netherland, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia. Bhutan and Costa Rica. Mr. Vijay is a Fellow Member of the ICSI, M.Com from St. John’s College, Agra, and a Law Graduate from Campus Law Centre, University of Delhi.

Mr. Manoj Kumar, a Member of the ICSI, possesses around 18 years of experience in M&A, Transaction Advisory, Valuations, and Investment Banking. He is Partner & Head of the M&A, Transactions and Valuation Team of the Group. Mr. Kumar, with his exceptional financial skills coupled with in-depth corporate legal knowledge, has conceptualized and managed around 500 mergers/demergers, acquisitions, takeovers, corporate restructuring, insolvency resolution and business valuation and other investment banking transactions involving listed and unlisted companies in various sectors and industries such as Infrastructure, Real Estate, Auto Components, Capital Goods, Power, Finance and Investments, NBFC, Broking, Pharmaceuticals, IT and ITES, Iron & Steel, Metals, Steel Products, Plastic Products, Sugar, Textiles, Consumer Goods, Capital Goods, Mining, etc. He is the leader of the team managing two very interactive knowledge portals of the Group– www.takeovercode.com and www.insolvencycode.com. Mr. Kumar is a Member of the NCLT & IBC Committee of PHD CCI. He has addressed numerous programmes organized by various forums such as ASSOCHAM, ANMI, CKF, ICSI, ICAI, IICA, NALSAR Law University, JIMS, Apeejay School of Management, etc. He is also a prolific writer and co-authored books on the Companies Act, 2013, Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code, 2016, and Business Valuation. His research orientation is evident from several articles written by him on topics relating to mergers, demergers, takeovers, and insolvency resolutions. His quotes and comments are regularly carried in all major financial dailies, e-papers, and business magazines. Mr. Kumar has travelled multiple times to UK and UAE and also to Sri Lanka and Thailand for business assignments and conferences.