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Profile of Mr. Deep Mani Shah


Mr. Deep Mani Shah
Chief General Manager, SEBI

Mr. Deep Mani Shah is a Chief General Manager with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), presently heading the ‘Division of Issues and Listing’ and ‘Division of Corporate Restructuring’ in the Corporate Finance Department (CFD). Immediately prior to this, he was overseeing the SEC vertical in CFD for more than 2 years

Mr. Shah is a qualified Company Secretary (CS) and a Lawyer (LLB). He also holds a degree of Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Finance from the Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai.

Mr. Shah has been with SEBI for more than two decades. He joined SEBI in 2002 and has since worked in various important departments like Market Regulation, Corporate Finance and the Office of Chairman. He has been the Nodal Officer for various Committees constituted by SEBI like the Justice Kania Group on Demutualization, Takeover Regulations Advisory Committee (TRAC) and the Expert Committee on Direct Listing. Few of his major contributions during his stint with SEBI include –

  • Setting up the regulatory framework for corporatization and demutualization of stock exchanges in India;
  • Devising a framework for levy of regulatory fees on stock exchanges;
  • Framing of the existing Takeover Regulations; and
  • Framework for direct listing of shares of Indian companies abroad and vice versa
  • Mr. Shah has also served in the National Institute of Securities Markets (NISM) on deputation, where he headed the Human Resources and the Legal Department as well as the Board and Secretarial Department. He was designated there as the Compliance Officer and the Chief Vigilance Officer of NISM. He was also the Public Information Officer of NISM under the RTI Act.