Rishabh
Mitra

Exhibit No. 01 Jhargram, West Bengal

Origins

The family's roots are in a village in Jhargram, West Bengal, where earlier generations lived before a work transfer took Rishabh's father to Delhi. The move happened before school did, but Bengali stayed the language of home: the first language learned, spoken at the dinner table long after the address changed, and still the language precision gets measured against when a clause needs to say exactly one thing and nothing else.

Exhibit No. 02 Delhi, India · 2013–2019

School, stage, seminars

Class XII at Gyan Bharati School came with more extracurriculars than any transcript shows: co-founder and president of the Rotaract Club and Dramatics Society, a regular on the debate circuit, a committed member of the astronomy club (the one that stuck the longest), and an occasional writer of poetry. Ramjas College, Delhi University followed, for a BA (Honours) in English: organising annual seminars, then running operations for the Woodpecker International Film Festival.

The English degree left one habit that outlasted it. Reading the same text through a Marxist lens, then a feminist one, then through the lens of cultural heteronormativity, teaches you how much meaning shifts depending on where you stand. It made the LLB that followed less a list of provisions to memorise and more a narrative to read closely, the same instinct later turned on something as specific as how Mumbai's culture and Mumbai's real estate law shaped each other.

Exhibit No. 03 Mumbai, India · 2019–2025

The law, in practice

That instinct for reading a place through its texts followed Rishabh to Mumbai for an LLB at Mumbai University, then into three years inside Brookfield Properties India's in-house legal team, seconded through JLL. He was enrolled as an advocate with the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa in September 2022.

The work was transactional at its core: leading documentation on a Rs. 3.5 billion, ten-year lease with State Street Corporation, from heads of terms through to the executed deed. It extended into mergers and acquisitions, running the due diligence response for a proposed sale of a Brookfield asset, coordinating requisition lists across corporate records, FEMA and exchange control filings, title documentation and regulatory approvals, and maintaining the virtual data room throughout. A separate engagement with IFC (World Bank) brought cross-border compliance under FCPA, OFAC and the UK Bribery Act into the same practice.

Exhibit No. 04 Vilnius, Lithuania · From Sept 2026

The next exhibit

A Master in Law, Technology and Business at Mykolas Romeris University, aimed squarely at EU fintech regulation: AML/CTF, KYC/KYB, sanctions screening, DORA and MiCA. This case is still being built.