Professional Positions and Specialization:

He is an international Corporate, Business & Strategist Commercial Lawyer with more than 15 years of diverse experience; his practice is concentrated across the Globe in general, specifically in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives, Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong, Mauritius, Kuwait, UK and Australia. He is a connoisseur of international Business Law, Cross Border Investment Policy & Procedures, Commercial and Transactional Law, Corporate Law including Corporate Management, Corporate Good Governance & Compliances, Corporate Restructuring, Mergers, Acquisitions, Takeovers, Trusts & Societies Structuring and Documentation, Real Estate Acquisitions & Regularization Consulting and Documentation; he also has expertise in the matters pertaining to Anti-Corruption/Anti-Bribery compliances and enforcement in context of FCPA and related provisions in India and Legal Auditing. He has advised large multi national corporations including amongst other Bayer AG, Suzuki, LG, Philip Morris (JV), Coca Cola, Accor, Findel, AMEX, Western Union, ABB, Corporations owned by Kuwait’s Royal Family, Knight Frank, Shapoorji Pallonji etc.   He is the Lead Partner of Kaden Boriss Legal LLP, Corporate/Commercial law firm, which was earlier known as Kaden Boriss Partners, Director-Legal Services, Kaden Boriss Consulting Private Limited, a legal/knowledge process outsourcing Company (LPO/KPO) engaged in undertaking consulting assignments for clients seeking to outsource their legal, para-legal and strategic advisory, regulatory and compliance work. He is Director-Legal with Thames Tobacco Company Ltd. and Kaden Boriss (UK) Ltd. incorporated in the United Kingdom.

Prestigious Honorary Positions:

Academic Qualifications/Distinctions & Literary Contributions: An excellent education and zeal to learn more has helped him achieve what he is today. He graduated with Bachelor’s Degree in Humanities by securing first division in the year 1988. He graduated in Law with a distinction/first division in the year 1991. He attained distinctions in various subjects at both College and University levels. He had always been an active debater. He was also given the position of a `Prefect’ in his School. His literary contributions include writing as well as editing and publishing the following publications and papers: “Doing Business in India”, “SAARC (Text Book)”, “SAARCLAW (Newsletters)”, “Doing Business With Destination – India”, “Doing Business With Asian Tiger – India”, “Foreign Direct Investment Policy Of India – How Direct & How Real”, “Regional Trade Agreements As Against Multilateral Agreements”, “Regional Trade Blocks As Against WTO”. Many a times he has been invited to speak on foreign investment, corporate governance, anti-corruption & anti-bribery corporate compliances, mergers, business acquisitions and other diverse corporate & commercial subjects in various conferences/seminars/workshops in India and abroad. He has delivered speeches and addressed gatherings on Corporate, Commercial, Trade and Foreign Investment Policies and Issues in Australia, Singapore, UK, USA, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan, Maldives and Bhutan. He is a visiting Guest Speaker to the National Law School, Hyderabad; Marcus Evans, Kuala Lumpur; Asia Business Forum, Singapore; Institute Of Chartered Accountants, New Delhi,   American Bankruptcy Institute, New York and National Institute of Financial Management (NIFM) of Ministry of Finance, Government of India. He has been associated with various literary projects undertaken by Nova Southeastern University, USA, New Scotland Yard – Metro Police (London) and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Germany. He has spoken as a ‘Speaker’ at more than 100 international conferences/seminars/workshops on varied topics of commercial importance. Apart from being a lawyer, he is also a socio-political activist and is fond of writing and speaking on current topics of general importance be it on legal or social or political subjects. 

Acknowledgements: 

On several occasions, he has been interviewed and covered by leading TV channels, periodicals, news-papers and magazines such as CNBC, Zee Business, India Today, Outlook, Business Standard, Hindustan Times, The HT Mint, The Tribune, The Hindu, The Competition Success Review, The Financial Express, The Pioneer, The Las Vegas Sun, The Sahara Times, etc. for his literary contributions.    

Social Achievements: 

Despite being a busy Corporate and Commercial Lawyer, he religiously takes out time to follow his passion and give back, in whatever sense he can, to the society what he has got from it. He has always been proactively involved in causes of social welfare. His dedication, commitment and sincerity towards social causes are praise worthy and have received appreciation and recognition at various fora. To enumerate a few of his contributions, achievements and associations the following list has been arranged: 

Association with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES): He has been associated with various NGOs; one of which is FES. FES is a non-profit organization (NGO) supported by the Government of Germany. It aims at strengthening democratic structures, promoting training and policy-oriented research programmes in Germany and in cooperation with partner organizations in more than 100 countries across the globe. FES is active in organizing talks, conferences, roundtable meets for promoting their objectives. Sharing similar objectives (social welfare), Hemant Batra and FES at numerous occasions came together and successfully organized/hosted events.

Association with International Infrastructure and Construction Law Moot (IICLAM): He has always been an enthusiast in organizing and supporting programs for promoting legal education; this can be seen from his efforts made towards formation of IICLAM. IICLAM is a one of its kind competition; it is for the first time that a moot competition oriented exclusively towards laws related to the Construction and Infrastructure sectors has been organized by three prominent Asian organizations associated with law in one form or the other. Kaden Boriss Partners, National University of Singapore and Singapore International Arbitration Centre embarked on a unique intellectual alliance, in the year 2007, thereby founding IICLAM. The founders decided to organize a series of annual international moot competitions to be held in the Asian region and he was unanimously made the Chairperson of IICLAM Organizing Council. The first competition was organized in October 2007 at Delhi, India which was attended by law students all over the Asia and the event was judged by legal luminaries from both the bench and the bar, and leading technocrats. 

Association with Organization for International Cooperation: World Peace: Organization for International Cooperation (OIC), based in Marlton, New Jersey, USA, is a citizen based, non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to solving greatest international challenges. OIC develops and shares breakthrough international cooperation solutions for 21st century global challenges. It is an affiliate of the Alliance for Peace Building. The Alliance is a coalition of over 40 non-profit organizations dedicated to resolving conflict and developing synergy among the peacemaking community. The Alliance brainstorms new ideas for solving and preventing specific conflicts and responds with special peacemaking missions to hot spots around the world. OIC has recently invited Hemant Batra to be one of their advisors; they have a team of 6 advisors on their Advisory Board, comprising eminent personalities and experts from different walks of life. An expert in the field of international commercial law, he will be shortly joining the said Advisory Board as OIC’s 7^th advisor. 

Association with SAARCLAW (South Asian Association For Regional Co-operation In Law): SAARCLAW is an Association of the Legal communities of the SAARC countries namely Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan & Sri Lanka (Japan and China being observer members) comprising of Chief Justices, Judges, Lawyers, Academicians, Law-teachers, Government Servants and a host of other law related persons. SAARCLAW assists the SAARC countries in inducting newer laws in the face of an ever-changing society as well as helping the member nations to amend their obsolete laws. He was a Governing Body Member of SAARCLAW (1996-2000), after which he served as a Treasurer of SAARCLAW (2000-2002) and then worked as a Secretary General for two continuous terms (2002-2007) and presently is the elected Vice President of SAARCLAW (2007-2009). As Vice President of SAARCLAW he enjoys a quasi-diplomatic status. Under his leadership, SAARCLAW has grown from a small plant to a tree and have witnessed growth. The Association has organized and hosted various international events. 

Founder of Aknoi®: 

He is the founder of Aknoi, which is a legal compliance kit.

Blogs: 

He is an ardent writer on diverse issues of public importance be it legal, paralegal, economic or social. His blogs can be accessed by clicking the following - http://hemantbatra.wordpress.com/ and http://www.blog.hemantbatra.org/  

Global Travel/Exposure: 

He has traveled extensively around the world, more particularly he has frequented USA, UK, Germany, France, Czech Republic, Denmark, Austria, Hungary, Holland, Russia, China, Dubai, Kuwait, Qatar, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal, Myanmar, Maldives, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Australia, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Austria, Finland and South Korea.