Kanisshka Tyagi
Advocate
India
• Kanisshka is a corporate lawyer and she graduated from Campus Law Center, Delhi University, and joined a Delhi based corporate and commercial law firm, where she got extensive exposure in real estate sector and other general corporate and commercial work. She subsequently worked with leading corporate and commercial law firms in New Delhi (NCR Region) and got the opportunity to expand her practice base to include insolvency; private equity and regularly advised on cross border investment transactions amongst other practice areas.
• Kanisshka joined Kaden Boriss, a global law firm, as a Partner in 2011. She has executed and advised both foreign and domestic companies on transactions related to private equity investments, insolvency and bankruptcy, real estate, acquisitions, corporate restructuring arrangements, commercial contracts and secretarial matters.
• Kanisshka with a view to encourage and mentor the young startups in India co-founded along with lawyer and company secretary and her colleague at Legum Amicuss, The WorkPlace, co-working offices and facilitated and mentored several startups and their respective founders for a period of 2 years, at the end of which the stake in The WorkPlace was diluted in favour of finance head of a leading co-working office brand.
• Kanisshka is currently heading Business Strategies Department of Legum Amicuss, a young dynamic law firm based at New Delhi. Her personal interest lies at structuring of new businesses/startups and structuring them with holistic approach. Kanisshka is registered as mentor with startupindia initiative of Government of India and is currently
mentoring several founders and startups. Realizing that a startup at the ideating stage needs to navigate the legal regime in order to properly take key decisions about its business, Kanisshka starting mentoring young startups and founders from legal perspective. She is one of very few startup mentors who are mentoring startups from legal perspective. Kanisshka Tyagi has been a mentor and judge at Eureka (annual Event) organized by IIT Mumbai E-Cell for selecting and rewarding startups every year.
• Kanisshka Tyagi has also been actively working in areas under POSH (Prevention of Sexual Harassment) laws and has served as external members in internal complaints committees of several companies across sectors and has been involved in developing policies for safe workplaces, conducting enquiries and training and sensitizing of employees, employers and members of internal complaints committee on safe and secure workplaces.
• Besides Kanisshka has been a regular contributor to law magazines and journals and a regular speaker at law colleges, conferences and seminars and has addressed a wide variety of audiences at various platforms on corporate-legal issues. In a bid to share her knowledge gained over years, Kanisshka has been an adjunct faculty with Lloyd Law College on Company Law and Sports Law for last 2 years.
• Kanisshka has been a broadcaster for more than 15 years now and has been associated with All India Radio as radio presenter. She started with English music shows during her college days and later switched to doing sports shows. She has covered a number of important sporting events as a radio presenter including Cricket World cups, Delhi
commonwealth games, marathons, many cricket series.