JUSTICE SOMASEKHAR SUNDARESAN

Somasekhar Sundaresan was sworn in as Additional Judge of the Bombay High Court on November 28, 2023. He had an extensive litigation and advisory practice for close to 25 years in areas of financial sector regulation, competition law, administrative law, company law and exchange controls. He has appeared before various High Courts, the Hon'ble Supreme Court, Appellate Tribunals and sectoral regulators. Prior to setting up his own chambers as counsel in 2016, Somasekhar had been a partner in two law firms and in this role has had an extensive transactional law practice with focus on mergers and acquisitions, securities regulations, investment agreements and shareholders agreements.

Somasekhar has been a member of legislative committees set up by the Union Government, Securities and Exchange Board of India, and the Reserve Bank of India, and in this role, he has drafted suggested legislation and policy governing takeovers of listed companies, insider trading, issuance of global depository receipts, variable capital companies, regulation of valuers, corporate governance of banks and cross-border insolvency. He was actively involved in drafting the Indian Financial Code recommended by the Financial Sector Legislative Reform Commission. He has served on the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India's Advisory Committee on corporate insolvency resolution process.

Somasekhar has been a member of the Board of Studies, Nirma University, Institute of Law and has taught securities regulations in specialised post-graduate diploma course of the Government Law College for over two decades. He is an amateur mountaineer.