お知らせ • Mar 23
The Sandesh Limited Approves Board Appointments, Effective April 1, 2024
The Sandesh Limited announced the outcome of the Board Meeting dated February 10, 2024, the Members of the Company have duly passed the following Special Resolutions: Appointment of Shri Bijal Hemant Chhatrapati as an Independent Director of the Company for a period of five years with effect from April 01, 2024; Appointment of Shri Keyur Dhanvantlal Gandhi as an Independent Director of the Company for a period of five years with effect from April 01, 2024; and Appointment of Shri Sudhin Bhagwandas Choksey as an Independent Director of the Company for a period of five years with effect from April 01, 2024. Reason for change: Appointment as Independent Director (Non-executive) of the Company in view of cessation of three existing Independent Directors due to completion of their second term on March 31, 2024. Date of appointment & term of appointment: With effect from April 01, 2024, for a first term of five consecutive years from April 01, 2024, untill March 31, 2029 (both days inclusive), subject to the approval of other regulatory approvals as may be applicable. Shri Bijal Hemant Chhatrapati is a gold medallist solicitor having thirty-nine years of experience. During his legal career, he has acquired invaluable and extensive experience in the practice areas of dispute resolution and corporate matters. He has handled several complex commercial and IPR- related disputes as well as writs, at various forums, including various High Courts across the country and the Supreme Court of India, as well as local arbitrations and international arbitrations, before ICC. As a corporate advisor, he has assisted and taken up various assignments of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and private equity deals, apart from routinely and extensively advising on all kinds of contractual and conveyancing transactions. At present, he is an Equity Partner with J. Sagar Associates, Advocates & Solicitors, and heads its Ahmedabad office. Shri Keyur Dhanvantlal Gandhi is practicing as an Advocate for the past 32 years in various courts and tribunals of Gujarat and before the Supreme Court, amongst other courts in India. His areas of practice included dispute resolution litigation, industrial disputes, commercial disputes, real estate disputes and advisory, and corporate advisory, amongst others. Earlier he was the practicing lawyer associated with Mr. K. S. Nanavati, Senior Advocate. Then, he became the Senior Partner at M/s. Nanavati Associates, a Law Firm, and subsequently he was the Senior Partner at M/s. K. Nanavati and Gandhi Associates, a Law Firm, focused on real estate advisory and legal drafting. In February 2022, he started his own law firm namely M/s. Gandhi Law Associates, which is a full-service law firm based out of Ahmedabad (Gujarat) and has a branch in Surat. He has been involved in some of the most high-profile and contentious litigations on various areas of law, including civil & corporate laws, insolvency laws, debt recovery laws, electricity laws, corporate laws, arbitration, labour & industrial laws, real estate, and criminal laws. He is also an active Partner of M/s. D.C. Gandhi Associates, a Law Firm, which focuses on industrial dispute litigations in tribunals and courts across Gujarat. Mr. Sudhin Choksey has more than 40 years of professional experience both in the country and abroad. He is an experienced CEO having led GRUH Finance with a demonstrated history in the mortgage finance business and skilled in lending business. He is the former Managing Director of GRUH Finance Ltd. which merged with Bandhan Bank. As a part of the scheme of the merger, he joined Bandhan Bank as Executive Director (Designate) in 2019 and retired in 2021. He has also served as an Independent Director on the Boards of many listed and unlisted companies. Presently, he is a Chairman of India Shelter Finance Corporation Limited besides being an Independent Director on the Boards of listed companies namely, CSB Bank Limited, Fairchem Organics Limited, and Gujarat Ambuja Exports Limited. He is also on the boards of a few other private companies. He is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and holds a degree in Commerce (Honours) from The Sydenham College of Commerce & Economics, Bombay University. He received the 2015 Business Leader-Financial Services Award from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India in New Delhi. In 2014, he was appointed as a member of the National Task Force on Rural Housing and Habitat set up by the Ministry of Rural Development (India) for rural housing.