CS Pavan Kumar Vijay, Founder Corporate Professionals, is a Fellow Member of the ICSI, holds a Master’s degree in Commerce and a degree in law. He possesses over 27 years of experience in Company Law, Capital Markets & Financial Services. Before founding Corporate Professionals in 2003, he was the Managing Director of BLB Limited, a biggest Corporate Stockbroker (specializing in arbitrage) of the time. He has the distinct honor of becoming one of the youngest President of the ICSI in the year 2003.
Mr. Vijay has richly contributed in number of committees set up by the Government, Regulatory Authorities, Professional bodies, Chambers of Commerce and Industry, etc. He is also actively contributing towards social causes. He is a Member of the Board and Governing Council of VOICE, Member of Advisory Board of Prays Social Welfare society, Faridabad and had been a Trustee/Member of Consumer Education and Research Centre (CERC), Ahmedabad for over a decade.
Mr. Vijay was nominated as the Chairman of Secretarial Standards Board of the ICSI for five consecutive terms (2014-2018), Chairman, Core Group for Vision New ICSl-2022 for the years 2017 and 2018, which besides formulating the Vision New ICSl-2022 also restructured the new CS curriculum, Earlier he had been nominated as a Member of Appellate Authority constituted by MCA; Member, Rule making Committee of MCA, for the new Companies Bill; Member, Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA), Convener, Corporate Governance Committee of MCA, Member, Primary Market Committee of SEBI; Member, Mutual Fund Committee of SEBI; Member, Narayan Murthy Committee on Corporate Governance of SEBI, and Chairman/Member of various other committees set up by PHD, ASSOCHAM, BSE, ANMI, etc.
Mr. Vijay has immense interest in IT and IT related products and is a great believer of use of information technology in financial and legal services. His IT Ventures of the Group www.takeovercode. com was awarded the ‘TATA NEN Hottest Startups Award 2008’, for being the most innovative business model. His another website www.companiesact.in and mobile app on Companies Act have been widely appreciated by the professional fraternity.
Mr. Vijay is a prolific speaker and author. He has delivered over 475 lectures on Corporate Restructuring, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Takeovers, Corporate Governance, Company Law and Securities Law, etc. at various forums such as MCA, ICSI, ICAI, ICMAI, SEBI, IICA, CBI, IIM, ANMI, BSE, CII, PHD and ASSOCHAM other Chambers, DU and Law Colleges, etc. He has appeared on various TV News Channels in Panel discussion, Talk shows, Interviews, etc. and is quite active on social media platform.
Mr. Vijay has authored/ co-authored several books, articles, research papers, and reports. His bestselling book “Companies Act, 2013 and Rules & Forms with Concise Commentary and Referencer’ has crossed 50,000 mark. The other recent books include “Business Valuation in India-Beyond the numbers”, “Compendium on the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code-2016” and Handbook of Company Law Procedures. He also has to his credit his well-researched and widely acclaimed publications such as “SEBI Takeover Code-Open Offers’ “Takeover Queries”, Depositories, Law, Practice & Procedures” and “Guide to Depositories”. His articles have been published in financial dailies, business magazines and journals of repute.
Mr. Vijay is incredibly passionate about learning new things and experimenting on new found skills. He has widely travelled abroad in his quest of learning and imparting his gained knowledge.