Our Team

Akshita Ostwal is the founder of Akshita Surana & Associates. With over ten years of experience in corporate laws and IPR laws advisory, consulting, and litigation, she has steadily built a reputation as a reliable and knowledgeable professional. Akshita is a peer-reviewed practicing company secretary and a registered trademark agent, and she holds a Master’s degree in Law.

Known for her thoughtful and bespoke approach to legal challenges, Akshita strives to provide innovative solutions tailored to each client’s unique needs. Her expertise spans foreign exchange laws, securities laws, HR services, PoSH consulting, and sensitization. Akshita has had the privilege of working with numerous start-ups, assisting them with fund-raising efforts and being a part of core teams in domestic and cross-border transactions, managing deals up to USD 25 million.

In addition to her legal advisory roles, Akshita offers services in corporate governance, regulatory approvals, and government liaison. She partners with clients on various fund-raising activities, inbound and outbound transactions, synergy developments, creating balanced boards, CSR activities, and compliance management for a range of corporate and non-corporate entities.

Her experience as a Compliance Officer for a company listed on both BSE and NSE has provided her with valuable insights into corporate governance, investor management, employee management, and board liaison. This background equips her to guide clients effectively through the intricacies of compliance and governance.

At Akshita Surana & Associates, Akshita is committed to maintaining a culture of excellence and attention to detail. Her goal is to ensure that every client receives exceptional service and practical solutions that align with their objectives.

Rajat Agrawal is the Principal Advisor at Akshita Surana & Associates, a peer-reviewed firm of Company Secretaries. He advises promoters, growth-stage enterprises, and listed entities on corporate structuring, regulatory strategy, and securities law compliance.

With over five years of post-qualification experience, his practice focuses on cross-border investment structuring, including inbound and outbound loan and investment transactions, pricing and reporting compliance, downstream investment monitoring, and regularisation of contraventions before regulators. He regularly assists clients in aligning capital flows and reporting frameworks with applicable regulatory requirements.

His securities law advisory includes matters under the Listing Regulations, Insider Trading Regulations, Takeover Regulations, and capital market frameworks. He supports listed entities in disclosure governance, board reporting systems, capital issuance compliance, and regulatory timeline management.

Rajat also advises on labour law compliance and data privacy governance, assisting organisations in designing employment compliance structures and regulatory frameworks aligned with evolving privacy obligations. His work further includes entity restructuring, compliance architecture design, and transaction-linked regulatory diligence.

He contributes to professional publications of ICSI and ICAI and has served as faculty for students of ICSI in corporate secretarial practice.