Sudhir Bassi

Sudhir Bassi is an Executive Director in Capital Markets Practise Group in Mumbai. He joined the Firm in 2013. Prior to joining Khaitan & Company, he was Managing Director at Morgan Stanley India Company Private Limited. He has vast experience of over 26 years in capital markets wherein he has advised companies on all types of capital raisings (public/private/international both in equity and debt space), open offers, buy-backs, delistings etc. During this period he has been associated with more than 120 equity offering, 40+ debt offering, 25+ open offers, 6 delistings, and 8 buy-backs. He has been associated with conceptualizing new concepts (e.g. shelf prospectus (for ICICI Bonds), book building (Tata Stell Bond Issue and Nirma FPO), exchangeable bond (Tata Industries), index bond (ICICI), conditional IPO (TCS IPO) and  executing first time transactions (e.g. QIP offering (Apollo Tyre) and OFS (ONGC)) etc.  Prior to Morgan Stanley, he has worked with JM Morgan Stanley Private Limited, JM Financial & Investment Consultancy Services Private Limited and PNB Capital Services Limited. 

Sudhir has been involved in dicussions with SEBI and Stock exchanges in relation to development of regulatory framework for the ‘Offer for Sale Mechanism’, SEBI (Issue of Capital & Disclosure Requirement) Regulations, 2009, SEBI (Issue and Listing of Debt) Regulations, 2008. Sudhir was also head of Capital Market-Policy Issues sub group of the Industry Affairs Committee of Association of Investment Bankers of India (AIBI).

Sudhir was member of committee constituted by SEBI for revision of SEBI (Issue of Capital & Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2009. SEBI (Issue of Capital & Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2018 has been formulated basis on the recommendations of this Committee.

Sudhir is also a member of the Committee constituted by SEBI for revision in regulatory framework for public issue of debentures and recommending regulatory framework for ‘on Tap’ Issuance of debentures.

Sudhir is member of Capital Market Committee of Federation of Indian Chamber of Commercee & Industries (FICCI)