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About CS Bilu Balakrishnan

A well-known Company Secretary from Kerala specialising in business advisory, corporate disputes, governance, joint ventures, alliances, due-diligence and ESG.

Bilu Balakrishnan is a Practicing Company Secretary at Bilu Balakrishnan & Co. Company Secretaries, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, and a Senior Advisor at Meenakshi Associates, Corporate Consultants. He is an exceptional expert in CSR & ESG, and advises many corporates on CSR compliance and reporting.

He is better known for his coaching classes for CS, CA & CMA courses in company law, governance, ESG and related corporate laws. With more than 20 years of teaching experience, he is the only professional in Kerala with both professional and teaching experience spanning over two decades, and is widely recognised as a corporate-law professional known for teaching, training and advisory work.

He has 20 years of working experience as Company Secretary of leading companies, in roles including Company Secretary & General Manager (Corporate HR & Admin), Corporate Legal, and Corporate Affairs & PR.

He has delivered more than 100 technical sessions on company law and related topics at seminars and conferences across Kerala, and has handled training sessions for company directors, senior officials and students at large. He has been invited by forums such as ICSI, ICAI, ICMAI, CAG, Government of Kerala, BPE and CMD for training and seminar sessions in company law.

He is the founder of CIER, Travancore CS Academy, Spring Research, Summit Digital Media and Silent Frames. Bilu hails from Kuzhithurai, a town in Tamil Nadu that was historically part of Travancore, and has been settled in Thiruvananthapuram for more than 27 years.

Qualifications & credentials

  • Fellow Member (FCS), The Institute of Company Secretaries of India
  • Practicing Company Secretary, Bilu Balakrishnan & Co., Thiruvananthapuram
  • Senior Advisor, Meenakshi Associates, Corporate Consultants
  • Certified CSR Professional of ICSI
  • Registered Independent Director (Databank, IICA)
  • Member of The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA)
  • B.Com (Rank Holder), MFM, MHRM, LLB (Gen.)
  • Certificate in Contracts Law, Harvard University (edX)
  • Certificate in Innovation & IT Management, IIM Bangalore (IIMBx)