Rushabh Maniar Bio

With over 20 years of experience, Rushabh Maniar leads the Firm’s Regulatory & Securities practice and supports the Mergers & Acquisitions, Joint Ventures, and General Corporate practices. He was an invitee to the SEBI Working Group on redrafting the SEBI (Foreign Portfolio Investors) Regulations, 2014, under the Chairmanship of Shri. Harun R. Khan and regularly advises various global firms on FPI foreign portfolio investor related aspects. He is also currently a member of SEBI’s FPI Advisory Committee. He has assisted various onshore and offshore entities with their entry and exit from the mutual fund sector in India and was an invitee to the SEBI Working Group to reconcile the SEBI (Mutual Funds) Regulations, 1996 with the Companies Act, 2013 and the Insolvency and the Bankruptcy Code, 2016. Rushabh also advises portfolio managers, investment advisers, research analysts, proxy advisers, stockbrokers, merchant bankers, foreign venture capital investors and alternative investments funds. He also advises clients on their foreign investment strategies in India, obtaining regulatory approvals and compounding contraventions under Indian foreign exchange laws with the Reserve Bank of India.