Credentials
Bar admissions, certifications, education and current appointment.
Bar admissions
California · Bar Council of Delhi
Certifications
CFE · CAMS · CEDS
Education
MBA, IIM Calcutta · Law degree, GGSIPU · NDA
Current appointment
Independent director, Companies Act, 2013
Background
National Defence Academy
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Bar Admissions
California State Bar
Bar No. 357471
Active member, bound by the California Rules of Professional Conduct on confidentiality and conflicts in the same way as any lawyer practicing in California.
Bar Council of Delhi
Enrolled advocate
Entitled to appear before Indian courts, tribunals and regulators, and bound by the Advocates Act, 1961 and the Bar Council of India Rules.
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Professional Certifications
Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE)
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
Certified in fraud investigation, including forensic accounting, the legal elements of fraud, and investigation technique.
Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS)
ACAMS
Certified in anti-money laundering compliance, sanctions screening and financial crime risk. I use it in FCPA third-party due diligence and in tracing cross-border payments.
Certified E-Discovery Specialist (CEDS)
ACEDS
Certified in e-discovery, covering the Electronic Discovery Reference Model, collection, processing and cross-border discovery. I use it when collecting electronic records in India under Section 63 of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023, and in line with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.
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Education
MBA, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
IIM Calcutta
The MBA helps in investigation and compliance work, which usually turns on how a business runs and where its financial controls fail.
Law Degree, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
GGSIPU · New Delhi
The law degree that qualified me to enroll as an advocate in India, from the state university of the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi.
National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla
NDA
Officer training before my legal career.
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Current Appointment
Independent Director, Companies Act, 2013
Board appointment
The board seat gives me a direct view of how audit committees respond to problems, how related-party transactions are reviewed, and how disclosure duties shape what an Indian company does once an investigation starts.
Holding both admissions has a practical consequence. My duties of confidentiality under the California rules apply wherever I work, including in India. Evidence collected in India can be gathered and certified by a lawyer who knows what a US court will require of it.
§ 05 · Representative engagements
The engagements below are examples of my work. Where the work is on the public record, the entry says so. Where it was done under client confidentiality, the entry describes it in general terms without naming the client or the other side.
Court-appointed forensic execution
Appointed Local Commissioner under Order XXVI of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 by the Madras and Rajasthan High Courts, in intellectual property litigation between two US competitors. The work covered court-directed inspection, seizure and forensic preservation of material, with findings reported directly to the court and coordination with US counsel throughout. The appointments are on the public record at both courts.
Cross-border e-discovery and electronic evidence
After an enforcement action exposed the Indian arm of a multinational logistics company to a criminal investigation, technology-assisted review was run across a multilingual set of documents. Collection, processing and review were set up so that the electronic evidence would hold its integrity in more than one jurisdiction.