Saurabh Gupta
Chief Legal Counsel and Compliance Officer
Saurabh Gupta is Arabella’s Chief Legal Counsel and Compliance Officer. He is responsible for setting the vision and strategy of Arabella’s legal and compliance team. Saurabh ensures strong legal compliance and risk mitigation policies are in place to help Arabella’s clients achieve impact. Saurabh approaches problem solving with creativity and a “getting to yes” philosophy under a compliance framework. In addition, Saurabh provides executive-level legal guidance to the independent nonprofit organizations that Arabella helps to support, including New Venture Fund, a 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor that hosts charitable projects. Saurabh’s expertise lies in corporate governance, employment law, organizational risk assessment and mitigation, audits, litigation, contracts administration, insurance policies, and compliance with political activity and lobbying laws.
Prior to joining Arabella Advisors, Saurabh spent 13 years developing expertise in public education and public-sector labor organizations. He has worked on behalf of public educators in several roles: as the deputy general counsel for the Massachusetts Teachers Association, as staff counsel for the Maryland State Education Association, and as assistant attorney general for the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS). Saurabh has extensive experience providing legal counsel on corporate governance issues to boards of directors and drafting legal opinions on issues such as political and lobbying compliance, conflict of interest policy, HR employee handbooks, and state ethics rules. He has deep experience with negotiating collective bargaining agreements, policymaking, state-wide ballot initiatives, and legislative analysis. Saurabh has represented the interests of his clients before arbitrators, local and state administrative agencies, and in state court.
Saurabh graduated law school from Thomas Jefferson School of Law and earned a Bachelor of Arts from Ohio Wesleyan University. Saurabh enjoys spending time with his family, going on hikes, listening to music, discovering new cuisines to attempt to cook, and—unfortunately—rooting for all Cleveland professional sports teams.