Arka’s practice area involves equity capital markets issuances which covers a wide range of products, such as Initial Public Offerings, Rights Issues, Qualified Institutions Placements, Initial Public Offering of Infrastructure Trusts and foreign currency convertible bonds.
Arka has been with the firm for 18 (eighteen) years and is an Equity Partner. He has represented issuers, underwriters and selling shareholders in various equity and debt capital market transactions.
He is a pioneer in his field, with many firsts to his credit; (i) He was part of the team which advised on the first ever Qualified Institutions Placement in the country; (ii) He was also a part of the team for the first ever public issue of Non- Convertible Debentures of Tata Capital Limited; (iii) Most recently he co-led the first ever IPO of an Infrastructure Investment Trust under the SEBI INVIT Regulations for IRB InVIT Trust and (iv) the first ever privately placed UNITs under the SEBI INVIT Regulations of L&T IDPL.
He represents JSA in the sub-committee formed by SEBI in connection with drafting and amending SEBI INVIT Regulations. He is also instrumental in forming views on ICDR Regulations along with peer group law firms and lead managers.
He has consistently been highly ranked within lists and publications, recently being ranked as highly regarded in the IFLR1000 Asia-pacific rankings for 2024-25. He has been ranked in Chambers & Partners Indian and Asia Pacific, and Legal Era has ranked him a ‘Leading Lawyer’. He was also featured on ALB Asia’s prestigious 40 under 40 list.
He has contributed articles to leading international publications and been quoted in various regarded news publications, papers and articles. He has also been a speaker at multiple esteemed legal and financial conferences, podcasts and roundtables.
Memberships
- Bar Council of Maharashtra
- Bar Council of Goa
Publications
Global Legal Insights – Initial Public Offerings, 2019′
Education
B.SL., LL. B., University of Pune, Symbiosis Law College- graduated in the year- 2006
Languages
- English
- Hindi
- Bengali
