Exit Masterclass Series: Put Options and Buybacks

Pratibha Jain

Group General Counsel & Head of Strategy, Everstone Group

Pratibha is also a member of the Management Committee at Everstone. In addition to overseeing all legal matters across the Group, Pratibha also leads strategy for the Group. Before joining Everstone, Pratibha was a Partner at Nishith Desai Associates, where she founded their New Delhi office and led their Funds and Regulatory practice. She has over two decades of international and Indian experience and has worked with Sullivan & Cromwell in New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong, with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom LLP in Hong Kong, and with Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong and Mumbai. Pratibha holds a Master of Laws from the Harvard University, a Bachelor of Civil Laws from the University of Oxford, and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Delhi. She heads the Regulatory Committee of IVCA and is Co- Head of the American Bar Association’s India Committee.

Rohit Bhat

Partner, Freshfields

Rohit represents clients in complex, high-profile international commercial and investor-State arbitrations, as well as investigations across a wide variety of industry sectors. He has been involved in arbitrations under the ICC, UNCITRAL, SIAC, and other arbitral rules, relating to joint ventures, post-M&A issues, energy and infrastructure projects, and technology disputes. Rohit also leads Freshfields’ India disputes practice and brings deep local insight from his earlier career as a barrister in India. He has extensive experience advising Indian companies, multinational corporates and financial sponsors on their India-related and cross-border disputes, particularly investment exit and shareholder disputes, and regularly helps coordinates complex litigation in various courts and tribunals in India.

Shwetha Bidhuri

Director & Head (South Asia), Singapore International Arbitration Centre

Shwetha was enrolled as an Advocate in 2007 and holds a Master of Laws degree. Prior to joining SIAC, Shwetha worked in the dispute resolution practice of a leading law firm in New Delhi for nearly a decade on commercial litigation cases as well as investment treaty arbitrations involving foreign and Indian investors. She has worked on many leading cases which have contributed to the development of law affecting global companies.

Ashish Kabra

Partner, Head - International Disputes & Investigations, Resolüt Partners

Over the past 15+ years, Ashish has built a truly global practice, representing sovereign wealth funds, global private equity funds, S&P 500 companies, and ultra-high net worth individuals in complex contentious matters - before Indian courts and in international arbitrations. He is particularly adept at advising investors in sensitive situations including shareholder disputes, internal investigations, and director liability issues. His practice spans international arbitration, securities and regulatory litigation, white collar crime defence, and internal investigations, with a particular focus on shareholder and investment disputes in the infrastructure, financial services, and technology sectors.

Mohammad Kamran

Partner - International Disputes & Investigations, Resolüt Partners

Kamran brings over a decade of experience and a rare combination of international disputes, investigations, and regulatory enforcement work, with deep roots in the Indian disputes landscape. He has represented multinational corporations, sovereign-backed entities, global private equity funds, and Indian promoters across high-stakes commercial litigation before the Supreme Court, High Courts, and key trial forums across the country, alongside international arbitrations seated in London, Singapore, Doha, and other major centres, acting under the SIAC, ICC, LCIA, LMAA, and ad hoc rules. His work has spanned shareholder disputes worth hundreds of millions of dollars, FIDIC construction matters, maritime arbitrations under LMAA Terms, and the enforcement of foreign awards before Indian courts, often with multiple proceedings running in parallel across jurisdictions.