Bitten by the legal bug ; As head of securities law and private equity practice at law firm JSA and a member of the Takeover Regulation Advisory Committee of the Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) it is natural for Somasekhar Sundaresan to be hard-pressed for time.

As head of securities law and private equity practice at law firmJSA and a member of the Takeover Regulation Advisory Committee ofthe Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) it is natural forSomasekhar Sundaresan to be hard-pressed for time. But he adds tohis load. Each winter he teaches for two months at Government LawCollege, Mumbai. He also writes regular columns (his practiceproviding the fodder).

Much new and "young law" has been formulated and interpreted inthe past decade as Sundaresan was building his career, playing arole in landmark cases. But "corporate law can completely cut youoff from …