Kaushik Mukherjee is the President Legal (Head of Legal Corporate Affairs) at Sammaan Capital (formerly Indiabulls Housing Finance). He is a corporate lawyer and senior in-house counsel with diverse experience across practise areas including capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, structured finance, real estate project financing, restructuring, and corporate and securities advisory and disputes. Kaushik has been a capital markets and public M&A partner with leading Indian law firms including ShardulAmarchand and JSA Law, amongst others. As an in-house counsel, Kaushik’s repertoire includes structuring and execution of commercial transactions. Additionally, he oversees all regulatory matters ranging from simple advisory in relation to compliance to strategizing (with external counsel or otherwise) in connection with investigations and disputes. He has regularly advised on queries raised by the Reserve Bank of India and the National Housing Board in relation to periodic inspections conducted by such regulators. Kaushik has multiple publications under his name including a National Stock Exchange (of India) publication on corporate governance (as a special advisor), apart from authoring articles in leading financial dailies including the Economic Times and the Financial Express. He has regularly featured as a securities laws expert on panel discussions organized by the National Stock Exchange, London Stock Exchange, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Law 2.0 and the Indian Law Conclave, amongst others. He has also been a guest lecturer for securities laws courses offered by the National Stock Exchange and Government Law College, Mumbai.