Tejesh Chitlangi

Practice Areas

Tejesh Chitlangi is a senior partner with IC Universal Legal and heads the firm’s financial services and investment funds practice at its Mumbai office. He has assisted in setting up of some of the biggest offshore and Indian Investment Fund structures. Under his leadership, the firm has maintained, over the past several years, a share of more than 30 per cent in the Indian private equity, venture capital, credit and hedge fund structuring/set-up space regulated under the alternative investment fund (AIF) regime notified by the Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI), India’s securities markets regulator. He has advised several foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) on structuring their large billion-dollar investments in India.

Tejesh also advises majority of the Top Twenty Indian asset management companies/mutual funds, largest global wealth managers and advisers. His team is also credited for facilitating highest registrations with SEBI, for the clients across intermediary space. He has also negotiated several global PE/VC & M&A deals, with a primary focus on the financial services sector.

Publications

Some of the key business columns authored by Tejesh include (published in leading Indian business dailies and available online):

- PE-VC Industry needs help, SEBI!!

- IFSCA - Give the finabler a friendly push

- Are Regulators being more serious than needed?

- Don't scare the LP-GP Community

- Minority Interest Over-Protection

- Time to fortify Corporate Governance

- Revamping insider trading laws with caution

- SEBI AIF Rules need some tweaking

- Insiders Beware

- Research Analysts: Beware

- Onshore Hedge Funds: Still a Myth!!

- New FPI Regime, Multiple Challenges!!

- AIF Regime - What's Next?

- Managing the investment advisors

- Dont micromanage Investors

- Mutual Funds: The Chosen One

- Exchange Conflict for Competition

- Independent Directors: A Mirage?

- P-Notes: Removing Bad Participation

Personal

Tejesh has regularly been featured as a top private equity and Investment Funds lawyer as well as a Thought Leader by several leading global independent law firm ranking agencies like Chambers & Partners, Who’s Who Legal (WWL), Asia Law as well as Lexology. Tejesh is the only Indian lawyer to feature in WWL's Asia-Pacific 2023 Top 5 Funds regulatory lawyers' list.