Sandeep Parekh, born 1971, is an Indian financial sector lawyer who founded Finsec Law Advisors, Mumbai. He attended St. Columba's School in New Delhi, India. He worked as an executive director at the Securities and Exchange Board of India,, India’s securities regulator, where he headed the Enforcement department and was the General Counsel. He has been the youngest person to hold the post at the regulator. Previously, he had worked in law firmWilmer, Cutler & Pickering, in Washington, D.C. He holds an LL.M. degree from Georgetown University and an LL.B. degree from Delhi University. He was a faculty member of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India's premier management school, and is currently a visiting faculty member there. Sandeep is a member of Mensa, and the Triple Nine Society has published op-eds in the Financial Times and is a columnist at the Economic Times. Parekh was a member of the Cabinet Secretariat task force for measuring performance in ministries and departments of the Government of India. He is a former chairman and member of Reserve Bank of India and Securities and Exchange Board of India Committees and Sub-committees. He was appointed the Chairman of the SEBI Committee on Proxy Advisors in December 2018 and is a serving member of the SEBI Committee on Mutual Funds. He is a World Economic Forum "Young Global Leader". He has also been recognized for exceptional standing in law by AsiaLaw Profiles, leading financial lawyer by IFLR1000 leading financial lawyer, leading capital markets lawyer by Chambers and Partners and listed as Who's Who of the world. The firm he heads, , has been ranked the highest rated law firm in India for Financial Regulatory Practice by He is the author of Fraud, Manipulation and Insider Trading in the Indian Securities Markets, now in its second edition. He is an independent director on the board of India's largest private sector bank HDFC Bank Limited and third largest company by market capitalisation in India and has been appointed on the search committee to look for the next managing director of the company.
