Regional Advocacy Committee

Shagoofa Rashid Khan, Senior Partner in the Mumbai office, leads the Investment Funds Practice. She has nearly 25 years of experience across structuring funds, managed accounts, fund documentation, private equity, acquisitions / exits/ restructuring / joint ventures and strategic initiatives (real estate and infrastructure sectors), international taxation and planning, corporate and commercial laws, business advisory, compliance, governance, ethics advisory, audit and finance. She has led the investment funds practice in leading Indian law firms and her clients included sovereign funds, pension funds and marquee global and domestic fund managers. She has also been in-house counsel for over 12 years and been responsible for legal, compliance, regulatory, governance and corporate affairs in leading Indian fund houses. Having been in the fund industry for more than two decades, she has hands-on experience across the life cycle of a fund from structuring a fund product to winding up.

Mr. Abhishek Agrawal is the Chief Financial Officer and has been associated with Embassy REIT since August 2020. He has previously been the interim Chief Financial Officer from June 2022 till July 2023, prior to which he handled the role of Finance Controller of the Manager which included   financial   reporting, budgeting and management reporting, risk management and internal controls, compliance, business finance activities, fund- raise and valuations. Prior to joining the Manager, he was associated with S. R. Batliboi & Associates LLP between April 2008 and January 2017 and B S R & Co. LLP between January 2017 and August 2020 where he was Associate Director – Assurance and Audit Services. He has handled audits of large listed and unlisted companies across various sectors and specialised in the real estate sector with specific focus on commercial real estate. He was also involved in various assignments for the firms, including capital   market   transactions, assurance services for listed companies and leading large audit and assurance assignments.

Norman is a Senior Partner in Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP and has been in active legal practice for the last 36 years. He joined the firm’s Corporate Real Estate Practice in 2017, with his team of 7 lawyers from Dentons Rodyk & Davidson (formerly Rodyk & Davidson) . The team has grown to 15 lawyers in addition to the existing lawyers of the Corporate Real Estate Department. He started his career at Rodyk & Davidson as a Practice Trainee from 1981 and was called to the Singapore Bar in 1982.

Norman graduated with LLB (Hons) from the National University of Singapore in 1979 and took his postgraduate for LLM with the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1984 and was under Secondment to Clifford Turner (now Clifford Chance) for a year after his postgraduate studies. He was under Scholarship from the Firm during the period he was away.

 Neeraj Bansal is the Head of India Global at KPMG in India and a senior partner with close to three decades of experience in risk consulting. He leads cross-border strategic initiatives and supports global growth under the India Global banner. Neeraj has deep expertise in supply chain transformation, having led major engagements across FMCG, pharma, EPC and other sectors. He has served over 500 clients across 15+ countries and holds strong ties with KPMG member firms in ASPAC. His advisory spans international trade, regulatory frameworks and global sourcing strategies. Neeraj has contributed to multiple government and industry forums, including FICCI, CII and the Central Government Task Force. A prolific thought leader, he has authored 80+ articles and 50+ reports and is a frequent speaker at global conferences. He has received numerous industry awards, including in supply chain and real estate. In 2024, he was the recipient of the prestigious Exemplary Business Leadership Award at the Indo-UK Global Business Conclave at the House of Commons.