Curriculum vitae

Arjun Khazanchi.

Constitutional litigator turned regulatory entrepreneur. Operates at the intersection of space law and frontier policy, regulated capital markets and emerging technology across India, the United Arab Emirates and Europe.

Arjun trained as a constitutional litigator at the Supreme Court of India, in the chambers of Senior Advocate Rakesh Dwivedi until January 2021, after a year as Judicial Clerk to the Hon'ble Mr. Justice C. Hari Shankar at the High Court of Delhi. He then founded Rooba Finance, a digital asset infrastructure firm operating exclusively under the IFSCA Innovation Sandbox at GIFT City, India, and a founding-member institution of the ERC-3643 Association. He now serves as Chief Executive Officer of MKX, a VARA-licensed virtual assets broker-dealer in Dubai, and counsels a small number of founders, boards and family offices on space law and frontier policy, regulatory, capital, AI and founder matters through retainer engagements held in confidence.

2026 — present
Chief Executive Officer
MKX Virtual Assets Broker & Dealer Services L.L.C., Dubai

Operating role at a VARA-licensed virtual assets broker-dealer. Responsibilities span supervisory engagement with VARA, balance-sheet architecture, governance, and the institutional build of broker-dealer, tokenised fund distribution and digital-asset advisory business lines.

2025 — present
Founder & Principal Counsel
Khazanchi & Co.

Boutique strategic counsel practice. Retainer-based engagements for founders, boards and family offices across space law and frontier policy, regulatory, capital, AI and founder-counsel matters. By introduction.

2021 — 2025
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Rooba Finance (Cymbient Technologies Pvt. Ltd.)

Founded a digital asset infrastructure firm operating exclusively under the IFSCA Innovation Sandbox at GIFT City. Led the firm through institutional licensure, fund tokenisation under the ERC-3643 standard, and a USD 1.3M seed round led by Inflection Point Ventures. Awarded the Web3 Innovation Award (BW Businessworld, 2023) and Best Emerging Digital Assets Platform of the Year (W3 Summit, 2023).

February 2020 — January 2021
Associate Advocate
Chambers of Senior Advocate Rakesh Dwivedi, Supreme Court of India

Constitutional, regulatory and commercial disputes before the Supreme Court of India and the High Courts. Acted in matters concerning State Governments, the Election Commission of India, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, the Reserve Bank of India and several non-banking financial companies.

November 2018 — November 2019
Judicial Clerk & Law Researcher
Chambers of Hon'ble Mr. Justice C. Hari Shankar, High Court of Delhi

Judicial clerkship across civil, commercial, intellectual property and constitutional matters. Drafted research notes, judgment outlines, and reference compilations across the chamber's full docket.

2017 — 2018
Trainee Associate & Counsel
Mandalā Law Offices · Chamber 20A

Foundational litigation and transactional practice across general commercial and constitutional briefs.

During pupillage
Internships of record
AZB & Partners · Luthra & Luthra Law Offices · Competition Commission of India · Amarchand Mangaldas (legacy)
ERC-3643 Association
Founding-member institution (through Rooba Finance) of the global standard for institutional tokenisation now used across regulated digital asset markets.
Bank for International Settlements — Finternet
Contributor (through Rooba Finance) to the BIS programme on the future architecture of cross-border financial markets.
IFSCA Innovation Sandbox, GIFT City
Operated Rooba Finance under the regulatory sandbox framework, with approval to tokenise FME fund units.
Polygon Labs ecosystem
Contributing practitioner across institutional tokenisation and capital markets infrastructure.
Bharat Web3 Association
Listed in the BWA Compendium as a founding-member institution for tokenisation infrastructure in India.
Bar Council of Delhi
Enrolled advocate.
January 2023
Barbarians at the Gate.
Long-form essay, LinkedIn
A reading of the encounter between traditional finance and Web3, drawing on MAS Project Ubin and the early architecture of trade-finance tokenisation.
January 2022
How Crypto Lending Platforms will Revolutionise the Fintech Industry.
SME Futures — bylined opinion column
August 2023
Driving Finance's Future Through Blockchain.
BW Businessworld — profile feature
Coverage of Rooba Finance's Web3 Innovation Award at the Web3 Summit & Awards 2023.
March 2023
DL News — quoted commentary
On the Silicon Valley Bank, Silvergate and Signature crisis and its implications for the digital asset sector.
January–February 2022
Quartz India · Scroll.in · MSN India
Quoted commentary on the Reserve Bank of India's fintech department, the 2022–23 Union Budget, and the Indian crypto tax framework.
August 2023
Web3 Summit & Awards, BW Businessworld
Recipient, Web3 Innovation Award (Rooba Finance). Post-event interview series.
March 2023
W3 Summit, Bangalore
Panellist on DeFi 2.0 and smart contracts for financial inclusion. Recipient, Best Emerging Digital Assets Platform of the Year (Rooba Finance).
2023
UAE institutional roadshow
Working sessions with First Abu Dhabi Bank, Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq), DIFC Innovation Hub, and Hub71 on the tokenisation of real-world assets.

Conversations are by introduction, and held in confidence.

The firm takes on a small number of new retainers each year. First conversations carry no fee and no commitment. They begin with a written introduction.

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