Vidisha is Partner at Mumbai office and heads Capital Markets practice at MV Kini Law Firm. She obtained her LL.B. degree from the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi. She also holds a degree in Journalism Honours from Delhi University. She has an LL.M. in banking and finance law from the University College London.
Having worked with India’s capital markets regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India, Vidisha has extensive experience working in law firms as well as in the government sector. At the Board she was involved in policy formulation and regulation drafting and helped provide informal guidance on various delisting, buyback and takeover issues to listed companies. Vidisha focuses on capital markets issues as well as cross-border investments into India. She advises on matters relating to RBI/FEMA aspects of cross-border transactions as well as domestic listed and unlisted company issues.
Her capital markets practice covers all aspects of RBI and SEBI laws including takeovers, public issues, private placements, alternate investment funds, eligible investor categories (FIIs, QFIs, NRIs) etc. Her expertise also extends to private equity deals, joint ventures in the corporate and commercial sector. Vidisha has advised on various aspects of foreign investments in India by institutional and non-institutional investors on debt instruments of the Indian public sector undertakings. She has also advised on various debt issues of public sector undertakings and statutory bodies, municipal bonds. She has also advised to Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) for the Issue of India’s first Debt Exchange Traded Bond Funds (ETFs).