Ms. Alka Bharucha
Independent Director
Ms. Bharucha co-founded Bharucha & Partners which, on inception, was ranked by RSG Consulting, London among the top fifteen firms in India. She began her career with Mulla & Mulla & Craigie Blunt & Caroe and joined Amarchand & Mangaldas as partner in 1992. She is a solicitor of the Bombay High Court and the High Court of England and Wales, and an Advocate on record at the Supreme Court of India. Ms. Bharucha has been ranked by Chambers Global, Legal 500 and Who’s Who Legal amongst India’s leading lawyers. Her core areas of expertise are Mergers and Acquisitions, Joint ventures, Private Equity, Banking and Finance.
Her general portfolio include the establishment of Mutual Funds and providing regulatory advice to Foreign Institutional lnvestors, Foreign Venture Capital lnvestors, Merchant Bankers and other Financial lntermediaries. She has particular experience acting for Financial Services clients as well as those in the telecommunications, power and logistics sector and is also actively engaged in representing trans-national corporations for investments in Retail, Defence and Manufacturing Space.
She excels in the advising the Companies on major business decisions, exploring new business ventures and corporate restructuring nationally as well as internationally to clients in Commodity & Diversified Chemicals, Fertilizers and Agricultural Chemicals, Construction Materials, Paper Packaging, Aluminium, Diversified Metals & Mining and Steel among others.