Mr. Ajay Kumar, B.Com (Hons), L.L.B, FCS and ACIS (UK), author of the Book is well known Practicing Company Secretary for the last 18 years. Before starting his practice as Company Secretary he had earlier worked as Assistant Registrar of Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal, Mumbai, Bench officer of Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (BIFR), New Delhi, Assistant Registrar of Companies (ROC), Mumbai and Bench Officer of Company Law Board (CLB), Mumbai Bench. He has a very rich experience of dealing with company law and other corporate laws. He had written a book on ‘A Study on the Registration of Charges under the Companies Act, 1956’ for the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He has recently written Books entitled ‘Compounding of Offences, Adjudication of Penalties and Special Courts under the Companies Act, 2013’ and ‘National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) and ‘National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (Practice & Procedure)’ published by Bharat Law House Private Limited. He has specialized in dealing with matters relating to “Oppression and Mismanagement” under Company Law and had been regularly appearing before Company Law Board in the past and now appears before National Company Law Tribunal. He has also been regular Faculty at various training programmes, seminars, workshops organized by institute of Companies Secretaries of India, Western India Regional Council (WIRC), Mumbai. He is on the Panel of ‘Mediation and Conciliation’ maintained by Ministry of Corporate Affairs pursuant to section 442 of Companies Act, 2013. He is also registered as ‘Insolvency Professional’ with ICSI Insolvency Professional Agency and Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India.