Raja Mukherjee is the partner and Consulting Head at Suraj Infratech, an organisation into infrastructure and energy business. Recently, the company is converted to a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP), under the brand name “Sudip & Raja Infraenergy Projects LLP”. He is an elected member of International Institute of Space Law, Paris (France) and individual associate member at American Bar Association (ABA), Chicago, USA. He has done his BSC in Mathematics from St Xaviers College, Kolkata.

We asked Raja how the course helped him so far in his career and why he enrolled for this diploma course when he already had a flourishing business. He had very interesting things to talk about his experience with the course. So, we decided to share it with you all as a success story. Over to Raja:

I was always attracted towards law and was looking for online courses which would help me gain legal knowledge. At the time of enrolling for the NUJS Diploma in Entrepreneurship Administration and Business Law, I had set up my business and was handling negations etc for my company.

I wanted to gain practical knowledge of business law and wanted an online course which would help me in that as I could not devote time to a full-time course. I was already doing a course from NUJS and I got to know about the online Diploma course from there only. I looked at the syllabus and was very impressed with its content and decided to join the course. I must say that this course has not just met my expectations but exceeded it.

In my current role, I’m heavily into negotiations, to negotiate and to understand policies; you need the knowledge of law. Some knowledge of business and commercial law helps in negotiating and this course has empowered me with that knowledge.

What I appreciate the most about this course is that it goes beyond the course content. Webinars, interactive sessions, provision to discuss queries in a social environment like Facebook; where your question is not just answered by the experts but other students also share their thoughts on it. These things help you to go in the right direction.

This course is up to date with industry; the course content is updated on a continuous basis according to the amendments and changes in the law. There are webinars with industry experts which give students the practical knowledge of law in an unconventional and easy to comprehend manner.

Personally, I found the module on company law to be most beneficial. The chapter on Founders agreement was very useful, It explained how to look at the agreement once you have walked away from founding days, how to modify it, statutory compliance, how to look after other partners etc. I still refer the course material regularly and take notes from it.

I once asked the iPleaders team for a copy of an investor’s agreement. I wanted to have a look at how an initial investor’s agreement looks like. This was outside the spectrum of the course; still they shared copies of few investors’ agreements with me.  This helped me a lot in understanding how investors are looking at ventures. I have gained a lot of legal knowledge from this course. In my current role as a partner in an LLP, I have applied this knowledge and it gave me a lot of positive results.

My Future plan is to train people and get them ready for the learning curve, as people become complacent after the initial years of their career.

I personally believe people from all walks of life can benefit from this course, but it’s especially beneficial for people in business or for people in middle and senior management. Even lawyers can benefit from it as this has all latest information in it. CEOs, politicians, businessmen, IAS, IPS all can benefit from this course as no one knows every bit of it; they all need that practical knowledge of the law.