Shri
Mansingh L. Bhakta
Shri Mansingh L. Bhakta
is Senior Partner of Messers
Kanga & Company, a leading firm of Advocates and
Solicitors in Mumbai. He has been in practice for over 53
years and has vast experience in legal field and particularly
on matters relating to corporate laws, banking and taxation.
He is a legal advisor to leading foreign and Indian
companies and banks. He has also been associated with a
large number of Euro issues made by Indian companies.
He was the Chairman of the Taxation Law Standing
Committee of LAWASIA, an Association of Lawyers of
Asia and Pacific, which has its headquarters in Australia.
He is a Director of Ambuja Cements Limited, Micro Inks
Limited, the Indian Merchant's Chamber, Mumbai, JCB
India Limited, Abhijeet Power Limited and Lodha
Developers Limited. He is the Lead Independent Director
of the Company. He is the Chairman of the Shareholders'/
Investors' Grievance Committee and the Remuneration
Committee of the Company. He is the Chairman of the
Shareholders'/Investors' Grievance Committee, the
Compensation and Remuneration Committee and the
Banking Matters Committee of Ambuja Cements Limited
and a member of the Audit Committees of Micro Inks
Limited, Ambuja Cements Limited and JCB India Limited.
He is Recipient of Rotary Centennial Service Award for
Professional Excellence from Rotary International. In its
normal annual survey conducted by Asia Law Journal,
Hong Kong, a leading International law journal, he has
been nominated as one of 'the Leading Lawyers of Asia
2010'. This is the fifth consecutive year in which he has
been so nominated.
He holds 3,00,000 shares of the Company in his name as
on March 31, 2011.