Mr. P.K. Malhotra has more than forty years of experience in the field of law and has held many important assignments in the Government of India. He was Secretary in the Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India; Member, Law Commission of India; Presiding Officer (Offg.) and Member, Securities Appellate Tribunal; Chairman, Adjudicating Authority, Prevention of Money Laundering Act and Judicial Member, Income-tax Appellate Tribunal.

He was involved in processing and finalizing many important legislations including Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013, Companies Act, 2013, Prohibition of Benami Property Transactions Act, 1988, Arbitration & Conciliation (Amendment) Act, 2015, Commercial Courts Act, 2015, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, Information Technology Act, 2000, Securities Laws (Amendment) Act etc. He has handled legal issues pertaining to Constitutional Law, Administrative law, Commercial laws, Cyber laws, Alternate Dispute Resolution including Arbitration and Conciliation. He has also worked as Arbitrator in large number of cases.

After demitting office as Law Secretary, Mr. Malhotra has started consultancy as an Advocate. He had a brief stint as Secretary- General, International Center for Alternate Dispute Resolution (ICADR), New Delhi. He is also enrolled as an Arbitrator/Conciliator for some Central Public Sector Undertaking including ONGC, GAIL, SAIL, NHPC, BHEL, ECIL, SCOPE, ICA and Delhi International Arbitration Centre. He is handling number of Arbitration/Conciliation matters including cases of large PSUs.

He is Public Interest Director on the Board of NCDEX, Mumbai; Chairman of the ICSI- Institute of Insolvency Professionals, New Delhi; Chairman of the Committee constituted by Ministry of Law & Justice for framing rules and regulations under the mediation Bill, Member of High Power Advisory Committee of SEBI for settlement of adjudication proceedings and also Member of CASCADE - Committee constituted by FICCI to advice on anti-smuggling & anti-piracy activities. He is also Member of the Advisory Board of the School of Law, Manav Rachna University, Faridabad.