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Jacky Gosar

Jacky Gosar

Company Secretary, Legal and Compliance
Kandivali (West)

Summary

Seasoned professional with over 12 years of experience specializing in global secretarial compliances, governance, and legal matters within MNCs, ITES, and the financial services sector. Extensive expertise in navigating secretarial compliances across 89 countries, including tax havens, Europe, Asia, Americas, CIS, and Africa. Known for proactive problem-solving skills and innovative thinking to generate fresh ideas and solutions in a dynamic work environment.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
2013
2013
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Senior General Manager – Corporate Secretarial

VFS Global
03.2011 - Current
  • Drafting of Agenda, Notices and Minutes of Annual General Meeting, Board Meetings and ensuring post-meeting compliances. Well versed with Companies Act 2013.
  • Drafting and Vetting of Lease agreements, Loan agreements, Vendor contracts, NDAs, confirmations and declarations.
  • Conducting physical Board meetings of Holding Companies in and out of India.
  • Independently handled Statutory / Secretarial / Internal and ISO Audit and post audit closing points.
  • Maintaining and updating the Compliance Chart/Compliance Status.
  • Making changes in the Board of Directors, Managers, Regd. office addresses in all the international companies.
  • Incorporation of Companies and branches across the globe. (Exposure of independently incorporating e Companies in more than 42 countries)
  • Extracting information from online portal/site like MCA (India) and Companies House (UK) for Company Information.
  • Preparation and filing of Form like FC-GPR, Annual Return on Foreign Liabilities and Assets with RBI.
  • Maintaining group structure charts and SOP,s on Visio.
  • Managing compliances of 40+ entities and branches throughout globe (USA, UK, Luxembourg, Mauritius, Canada, UAE, Jordan, Azerbaijan, Angola, Argentina, Chile, Czech Republic, Qatar etc)
  • Accession process (Pledging of Shares)- Seamlessly arranging for the documents of all the 19 entities involved in the accession process without breaching the deadline for the project, constant liaising with the consultant, lawyers and internal team for providing and seeking information, arranging for notarization and appostilation of various documents as required, arranging for signatures of Directors on approximately 1000 documents.
  • Acquisition Projects (Mergers): Involved in 2 major acquisition projects of the Company, liaising with the consultants for smooth handover of the documents of the acquired entities, updating tracker on a regular basis on the acquisition process as laid in the Share purchase agreement, custodian of all critical and important corporate documents of the new entities acquired, single point of contact for corporate data related to the new entities acquired, providing data of the new entities to the internal team for various purposes like opening of bank accounts, SAP entry.
  • Developed customised Corporate Secretarial Compliance Tool for VFS Global group.
  • Implemented “Diligent (Blueprint)” entity management system for entire group covering 217 entities and 57 Branches.
  • ISO implementation for Secretarial Department.
  • Created SOP for key activities of the department for entire group.
  • Independently handled the Amalgamation of Companies based out in Mauritius and Canada.
  • Actively assisted in re-domiciliation of Company from Mauritius to DMCC - UAE. This is first of its kind project in UAE DMCC (Special Economic Zone).
  • Incorporated a Company in most difficult geography of the world “Angola”. Took me 15 months.
  • Independently handled reorganisation of subsidiaries.
  • Gladly received an award “Champions of the month” – Three times and “Champion of the Quarter” – two times.
  • Received accolades from CFO & CEO for preparation of time bound tender (Bid) documentations and incorporation of Foreign Companies.
  • Adjudged the Jewel of the Corporate Finance Team Award in March 2017 at the Global conference held at Doha, Qatar.
  • Nominated for the award at Global Conference held in Dubai in 2015 for the best performance of the year.

Branch Manager

Unique InfoTech Computer Education
01.2009 - 08.2010
  • Teaching computer programs like Word, Excel, Power point, Tally, Visual effect, premier pro & Corel draw.
  • Expanded business opportunities by sourcing through different advertisement concepts.
  • Managed the head office of the company which includes daily reporting to the HO, managing faculties and other staff, payments to vendor, collection of fees from student etc.

Executive (Sales)

Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund
05.2007 - 07.2008
  • Selling of MF product in given areas like banks and Corporate offices.
  • Co-ordinating & Organizing Investor Awareness Programs.
  • Building and maintaining healthy business relations with customer, enhancing customer satisfaction & securing repeat business.

Education

Associate Company Secretary -

ICSI (MUMBAI CHAPTER)

LLB - undefined

Jitendra Chauhan College of Law (Mithibai)

Master of Commerce (MCOM) - undefined

Mumbai University

Skills

Regulatory compliance

Language Proficiencies

  • English
  • Hindi
  • Gujarati
  • Marathi
  • German

Personal Information

Date of Birth: 03/07/86

Core Competencies

Assisted the business in setting up the companies in India & foreign jurisdictions in a diverse business environment., Facilitated the business to create the substance in foreign jurisdictions as per local law., Expertise in Secretarial Compliances across 40+ countries which include tax heaven countries, Asia Pacific, United Kingdom, Africa, Americas jurisdictions respectively., International Entity Management and Controller and expertise in ensuring company's administration is running efficiently, particularly concerning the company's compliance with statutory and regulatory requirement., Visited Mauritius, Dubai, Qatar, South Africa, Azerbaijan – Foreign Travel related to Special Projects - Company Secretarial and Legal/Compliance Assignments., Compliances under Indian Companies Act, CSR Compliances & provided legal support related to IPR filings in foreign jurisdictions., Managing and taking responsibility for the provision of a comprehensive company secretarial and governance service to entities across the Globe, advising senior stakeholders, HOD, directors, committee members and functional leads on a wide range of company law and governance issues., Ensuring that all entities (including nominee companies and parent companies) are compliant with applicable laws and remain in good standing at all times - including maintaining and updating the statutory records, taking ownership for ensuring the filing of annual returns, financial statements and statutory returns., Collaborating with team to ensure that information is shared in a timely and comprehensive manner and ensuring that the highest standards of corporate governance is maintained at all times., Independently preparing and handling documents required to be submitted during the bidding and tender process. Prepared these documents for the Governments like UK, USA, UAE, Canada, Czech, Denmark, India, Hungary Australia & Polish., Dynamic exposure and contacts available to get the legal documents appostilled, Legalised (attestation), translated worldwide with any government embassy/consulate., Preparation and vetting of POA, Lease Agreements, NDA, Service Agreement, MOU etc., Vetting of Agreements and other contracts with Virtual office in foreign countries and Vendor contracts.

Software

Diligent, Gems

Timeline

Senior General Manager – Corporate Secretarial

VFS Global
03.2011 - Current

Branch Manager

Unique InfoTech Computer Education
01.2009 - 08.2010

Executive (Sales)

Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund
05.2007 - 07.2008

LLB - undefined

Jitendra Chauhan College of Law (Mithibai)

Master of Commerce (MCOM) - undefined

Mumbai University

Associate Company Secretary -

ICSI (MUMBAI CHAPTER)

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