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Welcome to the ALB New Delhi In-House Legal Summit 2022 

    DATE              10 November 2022, Thursday

    TIME               8:30 am Registration
                                  9:00 am to 5:30 pm, India Time  (GMT +5:30)

      VENUE          Shangri-La Eros New Delhi
                                 19, Ashoka Road, Connaught Place, New Delhi -110001, India 

                            [ FACE TO FACE /LIVE EVENT]

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Stay tune for more updates on the speakers. For further information, please contact Marianne Tocmo at marianne.tocmo@tr.com

GUEST OF HONOUR

 

 

 

 

 

Hon’ble Mr. Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya

Former Judge, Supreme Court of India

Former Chairperson, National Company Law Appellate Tribunal

 Shri Justice Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya, is the son of late Shri Sarojendu Mukherjee who was a leading practitioner especially Constitutional and in Service law in the High Court of Patna. Having obtained his LL. B Degree in 1979 from the University of Patna. Enrolled as an Advocate on 18th May 1979 and practiced at the Patna and Ranchi Benches of the High Court of Patna in Constitutional, Service, Civil and Criminal matters.

He was appointed as a permanent Judge of the High Court of Patna on 8th November, 1994. He was transferred on 15th November 2000 as permanent judge of the High Court of Jharkhand on its creation, where he served as the Acting Chief Justice. In 2006 he was transferred and joined as the first puisne judge in the High Court of Madras where he also functioned as the Acting Chief Justice. 2011 he was elevated to the Supreme Court of India from where he retired on 14th March 2015.

After his retirement, he has been appointed as the first Chairperson of National Company Law Appellate Tribunal in 2016. In his capacity as the Chairperson, he has delivered judgments explaining different provisions of newly enacted Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 on which there is no precedent.

FORUM CHAIRPERSON

 

 

 

 

 

Rajarshi Sen, Lead Counsel, Siemens Energy India

Rajarshi is the Lead Counsel for the Siemens Energy business of Siemens Limited India. Over the last 13 years, he has enjoyed being a strategic business enabler for major multinational corporations doing compliant and sustainable business in India, Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

SPEAKERS PROFILE

 

 

 

 

 

Abhishek Tripathi, Managing Partner, Sarthak Advocates & Solicitors  

Abhishek is the Managing Partner of the Firm and with extensive experience of advising national and international clients on corporate and cross-border transactions, he brings a unique blend of analytical thinking and business strategy to structuring, negotiating and closing complex commercial transactions. Abhishek has been involved in advising clients in several cross-border transactions, including in setting up of power projects, in Nepal, Senegal, Bhutan, Maldives and Myanmar.

Besides being a commercial & transactional lawyer he has a keen observer of politics and regulatory environments and he routinely interacts with governmental and regulatory authorities in India.

 

 

 

 

 

Akshay Saxena, Sr. Director, General Counsel, Encore Capital Group 

Akshay is currently serving as the India General Counsel & Company Secretary for Encore Capital Group Inc. In his current role, he leads the Legal, Risk & Compliance and Internal Audit teams for Encore in India. He also manages the Legal Shared Service Center which provides support to Encore’s legal team in the US and is the Executive Sponsor for Encore’s ESG efforts in India.

In the past, Akshay has worked with Vaish Associates Advocates, as a corporate attorney focusing on mergers & acquisition, initial public offerings, foreign investment regulations and employment laws and with ManpowerGroup Inc., a Milwaukee based entity, as their General Counsel & Company Secretary in India. Akshay holds degrees in law and commerce from the University of Delhi in addition to being a qualified company secretary.

 

 

 

 

 

Amar Kumar Sundram, General Counsel - Sr. Vice – President (Legal) and Chief Compliance Officer, Nec Corporation India  

Amar is an in house Senior Corporate Legal Professional having rich experience in Strategic thinking, formulation of operational guidelines and a business enabler to complex legal issues. He has worked with best of the Indian and Multinational business houses like DCM Shriram, Birla, TATA, AT & T, Reliance, Citi, Ernst & Young and Royal bank of Scotland (Natwest Group India).

In his current role with NEC, Amar is a part of NEC India leadership team and handles a team of 22 in-house lawyers looking after the contracts, litigation, global delivery, compliance, and secretarial functions as well as regulatory compliance of its branch offices in Singapore, Japan, US, Qatar and Australia.

A multifaceted professional with more than 26 years of corporate work experience, Amar has earlier worked with Royal Bank of Scotland (Natwest Group) as India Head – Legal, Corporate Governance and Regulatory Affairs handling a manpower strength of approx. 13000 employees across India. He was a member of the India Ex-Co (leadership team) and India Risk Committee.

Amar has advised on numerous cross-border transactions and has set up a strong functional legal department in many organisations he worked with. One of his core area of expertise also lies in setting up a strong compliance culture in the organisation with focus on business with minimal regulatory risk. 

 

 

 

 

 

Arun Prabhu, Partner, Head – TMT, Cyril Amarchand Mangalda 

Arun Prabhu advises extensively on matters relating to data protection and privacy including issues surrounding data collection, processing (including data mining), protection and retention, in addition to the formulation of policies and best practices designed to mitigate the legal risks associated with handling of data.

He regularly advises on the intersection between financial services and emerging technologies. He has advised several Indian and overseas clients on various issues relating to digital banking.

He was named in the ALB’s Asia Super 50 TMT Lawyers list in 2021 and Chambers & Partners recognised him as a ‘Notable Practitioner’ for TMT & FinTech space.   

 

 

 

 

 

Ashish Jakhanwala, Chairman, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, SAMHI Hotels 

Ashish Jakhanwala is the Chairman of the Board, Founder & Chief Executive Officer of SAMHI, which he founded in 2011. 

Since its inception in 2011, SAMHI has emerged as one of the largest owner of branded hotels in India. Its acquisition led strategy has allowed it to create a platform of 27 operating hotels with over 4,000 rooms. 

Ashish has built SAMHI as a formidable business partnering with some of the best-known financial institutions as shareholders that include Goldman Sachs, International Finance Corporation (member of the World Bank Group), Sam Zell led Equity International and GTI Capital.  Ashish has in past, managed joint venture businesses with Marriott International and Accor Hotels.  The Company also has strong relationships with a broad spectrum of financial institutions and banks. 

Ashish has personally led hotel investments across more than 50 hotels and 7,000 rooms across India in the past 18 years. This gives him unique insight into hotel investment landscape in India. 

 

 

 

 

 

Avneesh Chopra, Head (Legal) Company Secretory, Valvoline Cummins Private Limited 

Mr. Avneesh Chopra is Head (Legal) and Company Secretary at Valvoline Cummins Private Limited (JV of Valvoline and Cummins in India) since the year 2020.  In the past, he has worked with Ford Motor Company, Ricoh, Onida, Escorts Finance and Dabur India Limited. 

Avneesh has about over 25 years’ experience as an in-house counsel and Company Secretary and has worked across various diverse industries including public listed companies in the areas of legal, risk and compliance, regulatory and corporate affairs.

His areas of practice include contracts (including international contracts) and litigation, corporate laws, competition law, environmental laws, intellectual property laws, industrial and employment laws, information technology, private equity, risk management, oversight and regulatory compliance, mergers, amalgamations and restructuring and real estate/ property laws.

Avneesh is a graduate in law (LL.B., Delhi University, 1999); is a member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (1999) and fellow member of the Centre for American and International Law, USA (2014).

His key achievements include closure of high value contracts and agreements with leading global brands, handling of complex litigations including quashing of frivolous criminal complaints against the board of directors; mergers of public listed companies and relisting them in stock exchanges in India; due diligence and acquisition of many companies and properties; institutionalization of compliance management; strengthening compliance culture; and litigation management.

 

 

 

 

 

Dharini Mathur, Senior Counsel, International Finance Corporation 

Dharini is currently Senior Counsel at the International Finance Corporation (the World Bank Group) and advises on transactions and engagements across Asia. In 2014, Dharini was selected for the World Bank Group’s Global Business Leaders Program and in 2019 for the Corporate Leadership Programme. Prior to joining IFC, Dharini was in private practice and worked at Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co (New Delhi, India), Davis Polk (Menlo Park, California, USA) and P&A Law Offices (New Delhi, India).

Dharini has a LL.M from Harvard Law School, a B.C.L. from Oxford University where she was a Commonwealth Scholar and a BA LLB (Hons.) degree from the National Law School, Bangalore. Dharini is currently India Co-Chair of the Harvard Law School Women’s Alliance Network and is an Advisor to the non-profit IDIA – Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access to Legal Education.

 

 

 

 

 

 

L. Badri Narayanan, Executive Partner, Mumbai, Delhi, Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan  

Badri Narayanan is a Partner in the Tax Practice of the firm and leads the M&A/ Private Equity Tax Practice. He also co-heads the Corporate and M&A Practice of the firm.  He advises domestic and international clients on all tax and corporate aspects of mergers, acquisitions, in-bound and outbound investments, foreign exchange controls, royalties and licensing arrangements, exits, dividend distributions and other transactional matters.

He also advises on capital gains tax, digital tax and negotiations and disputes with the taxation authorities. He is involved with several government and industry bodies commenting upon tax and other legislative proposals including the transition to the new Goods and Services Tax regime in India. He has handled matters across many industries, with experience in the financial services, healthcare, technology, IT, manufacturing, digital, e-commerce and retail sectors among others. Badri has consistently been ranked as a leading lawyer in India by several publications including Asian Legal Business (ALB), International Tax Review, Asialaw, Legal 500.

 

 

 

 

 

Ira Dhasmana, Head of Legal – India, Sinch 

Ira is a dual qualified lawyer licensed to practice in India and the United Kingdom. Ira completed her LLB from ILS Law College, Pune and went on to pursue a mid-career LLM in Information Technology and Intellectual Property from the University of Hong Kong. Ira has 15 years’ experience initially, in private practice with Dua Associates and later, with CPA Global (now, Clarivate) and the intellectual property department at Wipro Limited where Ira had the opportunity to work with established IP lawyers and honed her IP and IT law skills supporting Wipro’s global IT procurement department. Ira now heads the India legal and secretarial department for Sinch, a prominent Swedish CPaaS provider.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kamayani Misra, Vice President – Legal, BlackRock Services India Private Limited 

Ms. Kamayani Misra is part of the in-house legal team of BlackRock and is based in Gurgaon. As Vice President – Legal, she is responsible for all the legal and corporate secretarial matters related to BlackRock’s corporate entity in India.

She started her career with BPTP Limited, a leading real estate company in Delhi, NCR and managed consumer litigation and settlements along with legal advisory related to contractual interpretations and statutory implications.

Kamayani is a B.A. L.L.B (Hons.) graduate from Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow

 

 

 

 

 

Kumar Ankit, Head – Legal, Policy & Compliance, Hindustan Zinc Limited 

Kumar Ankit is the Head–Legal, Policy & Compliance at Hindustan Zinc Limited. As part of the senior management team of the company, which is India’s largest and world’s second-largest zinc-lead miner, he is at the helm of affairs in the departments dealing with corporate legal matters, litigations, policy and compliance. He has worked on critical litigation, non-litigation transactional matters and advises the stakeholders in areas of mining, environment, natural resources extraction, electricity, and public-private partnership (PPP) in the infrastructure sectors. He has delivered results in many disputes and policy areas in manufacturing, commodity, environmental, software and emerging technology, data governance and privacy, sports and taxation matters. 

Prior to the current engagement, he was the Deputy Head, Legal and Policy, at Vedanta Resources Limited in Iron Ore, Steel and Ports business unit. Prior to that, he served as the Legal Counsel for Thomson Reuters (South-East Asia) and Legal Counsel for the US offices of Deloitte Consulting. Besides being a qualified lawyer from the Gujarat National Law University, he is a fellow member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and an Member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Texas, United States. He is also an executive member of SAROD-Ports, a dispute resolution medium under the aegis of Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, besides being in working committees of FICCI, FIMI and CII.\

 

 

 

 

 

Manjaree Chowdhary, Sr. Executive Director and General Counsel, Maruti Suzuki India  

Manjaree Chowdhary is Senior Executive Officer and General Counsel of Maruti Suzuki India, a subsidiary of Suzuki Motor Corporation Japan and the leading car manufacturer in India employing over 34,000 people. Leading a team of 50+ legal professionals, Manjaree works closely with the Board, the CEO and the Leadership Team to provide legal and compliance support in a dynamic regulatory and risk environment. Winner of the prestigious WeQual Asia Pacific Award in the Business Security category in September 2021, she featured in the India “Top 100 Powerful Women in Law”

A Felix Scholar and master’s in law from the University of London with distinction, Manjaree made a mid-career shift from academics to law. She began her legal career at a leading Indian law firm, moving in-house to General Electric before joining Maruti Suzuki as its first woman General Counsel. An experienced General Counsel with 25 yrs. of successful history of working across South Asia, US, ANZ, and Japan in diverse industries like Industrial, Manufacturing, Auto, Healthcare, Power and Services. Skilled in strategic advisory, Board and listed entity management, complex transactions including JVs/M&A, litigation, regulatory and public policy, enterprise risk, compliance and change management, she brings a global and innovative mindset with strong local execution to help grow businesses in challenging regulatory and business environment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nitin Sharma, Legal Counsel, Becton Dickinson  

Nitin Sharma, is the General Counsel, South Asia for Becton Dickinson, one of the world’s 2nd largest medical device manufacturers.

As a part of the Senior Leadership at Becton Dickinson, Nitin is enables business and functional units by extending support in the areas of Legal, Ethics, Compliance, Culture building. Owing to his interest in business and technology, Nitin also handles Special Projects on Go-TO-Market strategy, Tech upgradation, integrations etc.

Nitin has in-depth experience of handling commercial, civil, white-collar crimes and domestic and international arbitrations. During his tenure with Tier-I law firms like AZB and JSA he focused extensively on M&A, Private Equity, Venture Capital and Capital Markets transactional and advisory work.

 

 

 

 

 

Ojasvita Srivastava, General Counsel - Africa, Middle East and Asia, Securitas Group 

Ms. Ojasvita Srivastava is the General Counsel at Securitas AMEA, a Swedish multi-national company headquartered in Stockholm. She heads the legal function for the region Africa, Middle East and Asia Pacific. In her previous stints, she has worked as a regional legal counsel, APAC at G4s, senior legal manager at Reliance Communications and also practiced independently before the SC, Delhi HC and various district courts in Delhi.
She is also the Founder of Project Abhimanyu (www.projectabhimanyu.in), an NGO founded in 2015. Project Abhimanyu provides free legal guidance to first generation lawyers and law students. It also provides training programmes for lawyers and law students. So far, they have worked with law students across 80 colleges all over India while conducting workshops and seminars. They presently have 70 Mentors from across the country including General Counsels of MNCs, Law firm partners and highly successful litigators.
Ojasvita completed her LLB (Honours) course from V. M. Salgaocar College of Law, Goa with full scholarship and also acquired an LLM in Commercial and Corporate Law from Queen Mary, University of London. Besides these, she has various certifications in leadership, managerial finance, and legal processes management.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pallav Shukla, Partner, Trilegal 

Pallav Shukla is a Partner in Trilegal’s Delhi office and part of the Dispute Resolution practice. Pallav focuses on white-collar crimes and investigations. In addition to commercial disputes, Pallav focuses on defense in anti-corruption and money laundering enforcement and debarment. He also has in-depth experience in pursuing civil and criminal remedies for IPR infringement, data theft, and financial and cyber-crimes. Pallav has strong trial credentials in defence and private prosecution involving such cases. Pallav regularly conducts internal investigations, designs and implements whistle-blower programs and anti-corruption training modules.

Pallav’s practice also focuses on high-stake industrial and employment disputes. His experience covers a wide range of industries – from defense procurement, industrial manufacturing and real estate to infrastructure projects, life sciences and information technology.

Pallav previously served as a law clerk to Justice S.H. Kapadia, then Chief Justice of India’s Supreme Court (2010-11), and practised criminal law as independent counsel, from 2012 to 2014.

 

 

 

 

 

Pranav Mehra, director – Legal, Freshworks

Pranav is the head of legal for India and Asia Pacific at Freshworks (Freshworks is a NASDAQ listed company that provides innovative customer engagement solutions that make it easy for retail teams to attract, win, and keep customers for life on a cloud based platform).

 

 

 

 

 

Prashant Roy, Corporate Counsel, Amazon Web Services

Prashant is a technology lawyer with over a decade of experience in cloud services, IT outsourcing, technology licensing, data protection advisory, public policy, and contract negotiations across information technology, telecom, and healthcare.

 

 

 

 

 

Pratibha Jain, Head of Strategy and Group General Counsel, Everstone Group  

Ms. Pratibha Jain is the Head of Strategy and Group General Counsel at Everstone Group. Prior to Everstone, Pratibha was a Partner at Nishith Desai Associates where she founded their New Delhi office, and lead their Funds and Regulatory practice. She’s an alumnus of Harvard Law School, Oxford University and Delhi University. She brings with her a breadth of international and Indian experience having worked with Sullivan & Cromwell in New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong, with Skadden Arps Slate, Meagher and Flom LLP in Hong Kong and Goldman Sachs in Mumbai.

She has worked on some of the most challenging projects in financial services and regulatory sector globally and in India, including representing Ministry of Finance in setting up of National Investment and Infrastructure Fund and designing USD 1.3 billion special ‘window for funding stalled affordable and middle income housing projects’ as an AIF fund, listing of companies on US exchanges, representing private equity investors in some of the biggest investments into India such as Mubadala’s investment in Reliance Jio and reliance Ventures, Softbank’s in its investment of USD 1.4 billion in PayTM.

She sits on various important committees including IVCA Executive Committee, FICCI Capital Markets Committee and CII Financial Markets Committee.  A Fellow of the Seventh Generation Class of Ananta Aspen’s Kamalnayan Bajaj Fellowship and member of Aspen Global Leadership Network. She received the “Woman Lawyer of the Year Award 2019” by Business World magazine. Recently, she has been recognized as a Top Individual Lawyer by Forbes Legal Power list 2020.

 

 

 

 

 

Priyank Kapoor, Head Wholesale Banking Litigation Team, RBL Bank Limited 

 

Mr. Priyank Kapoor heads the wholesale banking litigation team of RBL Bank Limited and is currently based in Delhi. In this role, he is responsible for managing the litigation, drafting policies related to stressed accounts and assisting various executive committees of the bank. 

Prior to RBL Bank, Priyank worked with HDFC Bank, L&T Infra Finance and Union Bank where he provided legal support to different teams within the banks.

 

 

 

 

 

Rajiv Choubey, Group General Counsel, Dalmia Bharat Group

Mr. Rajiv Choubey is General Counsel and Company Secretary; a thought leader and a strategist with business orientation.

He is an alumnus of Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, Indian Law Institute and Indian Society of International Law, New Delhi and the Institute of Company Secretaries (ICSI).

Rajiv is presently working as Group General Counsel with Dalmia Bharat Group. He has almost two and half decades of experience spanning manufacturing and Information Technology industries and has been earlier associated with ACC Limited and Ambuja Cements Limited, HCL Infosystems Ltd., Vedanta Limited, Maruti Suzuki and Hindustan Tin.

Rajiv is an acclaimed speaker/author on varied contemporary legal and industry specific issues. He has shared his views at various forums and conferences. He has been a part of various committees/delegations constituted by industry/professional bodies like Indian Business Law Journal (IBLJ), Legal Era, Business World, Indian Corporate Counsel Association (ICCA), Corporate Counsel Association of India (CCAI), Indian National Bar Association (INBA), Legal 500, IDEX, and IOD.

 

 

 

 

 

Sanjeev Ailawadi, General Counsel, Eros Group 

Mr. Sanjeev Ailawadi is the Legal Head at Eros Group of Co.’s. which is a diversified conglomerate engaged in Construction and Hospitality business. He has vast experience in the field of Property Law besides Corporate and other Civil Laws. He is member of the Real Estate Committee at Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry & the Law and Justice Committee at the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He has always voiced the concerns of  Industry with Statutory Authorities. He has been a faculty member at Bhartiya Vidyapeeth Institute of Management & Research and Haryana Institute of Public Administration. He was part of the Legal teams that successfully contested several land mark matters like the Greater Noida Land Acquisition matter, Okhla Bird Sanctuary Eco Sensitive Zone (Construction ban at NOIDA) matter besides several matters relating to preservation of Environment which were contested Pro bono.

 

 

 

 

 

Satyajit Gupta, VP - Assistant General Counsel and Head of India Legal & CSR, EXL

Satyajit is a dual-qualified lawyer (India and England) with over 19 years' work experience in top law practices, and is currently the Vice President (L2), Assistant GC & Head of India Legal at EXL India. Satyajit's work encompasses M&A and general corporate matters, labour & employment laws, contracting, IT and privacy laws. Satyajit took over the CSR function at EXL in 2021 and is passionate about upscaling the CSR program; one of his key initiatives was to activate the EXL Foundation, a not for profit set up by the group. Aside from peer recognition and external awards, he has received various accolades in EXL for the work done to deal with Covid19 and its impact on business (he is a member of the EXL management task force). Other than work, Satyajit enjoys mentoring young and upcoming lawyers. Satyajit has also worked in raising awareness about mental health & wellness amongst legal professionals.

 

 

 

 

 

Shardul S. Shroff, Executive Chairman, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas 

Shardul S. Shroff is the Executive Chairman of the Firm and also heads the Firm’s Insolvency & Bankruptcy practice.

Shardul has been instrumental in developing and driving the Firm’s vision that is focused on enabling business by providing solutions as trusted advisors, through excellence, responsiveness, innovation and collaboration. He spends his time on guiding the Firm’s strategy and Partners in building strong relationships with clients and each other internally across the Firm. Shardul’s four decades of experience spans across a wide spectrum, including expertise in Insolvency and Bankruptcy, Mergers & Acquisitions, Securities Law, Government Regulations, Disinvestment & Capital Markets, and Debt Recovery, helping build a pole position for the Firm in many of these practice areas.

As a thought leader in the legal domain, Shardul has been consistently rated as a leading corporate lawyer by several international fora and publications, including Who’s Who Legal, Asialaw, Chambers and Partners, Legal 500, Euromoney, International Financial Law Review (IFLR) and more

 

 

 

 

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• Sujjain Talwar, Partner, Economic Laws Practice 

Sujjain Talwar is a co-founding Partner of ELP. With over 30 years of experience, he is a qualified Solicitor in India as well as England and Wales. He also serves as an Independent Director on boards of some of India’s leading companies.

Sujjain has been instrumental in developing ELP’s hospitality practice and has acted (usually for owners) in several hotel transactions involving almost every international hotel operator in India. Sujjain has worked extensively on private sector participation initiatives in various infrastructure projects in India and abroad. His work includes infrastructure projects in the region, including Yemen, Fujairah, Djibouti and the Maldives. He has international experience in managing public-private participation across various infrastructure sectors including water, roads, ports and airports.

Sujjain has been part of the bidding process for one of the 12 initial companies referred by RBI under IBC. He is also involved in advising on issues raised by minority shareholders and on corporate governance.

 

 

 

 

 

Sutapa Banerjee, Independent Director on several boards 

Sutapa Banerjee has over three decades of professional experience. She spent 24 years in the financial services industry across 2 large multinational banks (ANZ Grindlays and ABN AMRO), and a boutique Indian Investment bank (Ambit) where she built and headed several businesses. A well-recognized thought leader in the Wealth Management space having headed and successfully built from scratch the Private Wealth businesses in both ABN AMRO Bank and Ambit Capital, Sutapa was voted one of the ‘Top 20 Global Rising Stars of Wealth Management’ by the Institutional Investor Group in 2007 - the only Indian and one of only two winners from Asia. As CEO she led Ambit Private Wealth to ‘Best Private Bank in India in the 2013 AsiaMoney polls. In 2012 she was shortlisted in the ’50 most Powerful Women’ by Fortune India.

Currently she Is an Independent Director on the boards of Zomato Limited, Godrej Properties, Polycab Industries, JSW Cement, Axis Capital, Camlin Fine Sciences and Satsure Analytics and Carbon Disclosure Project. She chairs and serves on several Board Committees - Audit, NRC, Risk and CSR. She was on the Board of Oxfam and the Nominee Director of Women’s World Banking in India. In addition, she works as a Decision Coach for senior leadership talent.

 

 

 

 

 

Vani Mehta, General Counsel, GE South Asia  

Vani Mehta is the General Counsel at General Electric (GE) South Asia. In her role as General Counsel for South Asia, Vani leads the legal teams of all GE businesses in the region and advisor to the GE senior leadership. She is also board member and drives GE’s thought leadership in the legal fraternity.

With over 17 years of work experience she has previously part of SAP in house legal team and earlier in private practice for several years with Little &Co. and has worked extensively in both litigation, M&A and general corporate area of practice including securities & capital markets having several Indian companies and leading MNC’s as her clients.

Vani graduated in Law from Delhi University, India and earned Bachelor honors degree in Political Science from Delhi University, India.

Vani is a fitness enthusiast and enjoys outdoor activities with her family. She is a keen collector of Indian art and traditional weaves.

 

 

 

 

 

Vineet Vij, Group General Counsel, Tech Mahindra 

Vineet is the Global General Counsel of Tech Mahindra Limited and group companies worldwide. Leading a team of over 100 lawyers spread across India, US, Mexico, UK, Netherlands, Israel, he supports multi-billion dollar cross-border commercial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, disputes and litigations, global compliances, legal policy and regulatory, IPR and strategic legal matters to safeguard the legal & business interests of the company and its principal officers. He extends overall guidance and support to the legal teams of group companies worldwide, including Born Group, Target Group, Comviva, LCC, Leadcom, Tech Mahindra Business Services and HCI Group.

Vineet’s professional experience spans over 25 years with corporations like TCS, TATA Unisys/Infotech, American Express, HCL Group, covering divergent practice areas including Commercial and Contract law, Litigation and Dispute resolution, Cross-border M&As, Global regulatory compliances, Financial and Banking laws, Real estate, Company law, IT, Data protection, Privacy, Cyber and IPR laws, Criminal law, Telecom, Arbitration, Employment, Bankruptcy, Competition and Indirect tax laws. He has also been a litigator & practicing advocate before Hon’ble High Courts of Delhi & Mumbai and has been a witness to of the landmark judgments passed by courts in India and across the globe. He is also on the Board of Studies of Bennet University, Amity Law School and Mahindra University.