Vivek Mittal (l) joins Dr Reddy F ormer Danaher regional counsel Vivek Mittal has joined Dr Reddy’s Laboratories as its global GC, based in Mumbai. Mittal succeeds Suprio Dasgupta in the role, who has moved to Glenmark Pharmaceuticals as general counsel. That move follows Glenmark global general cou...

C redit Suisse Mumbai-based in-house counsel Swagata Bhattacharya has been appointed as the multinational bank’s new head of legal for India. She takes over the role from Sapna Bhawnani , who has been acting as interim India legal head after she had been promoted as head of legal for South Asia at C...

ANI Technologies Pvt Ltd, the parent company of now multiple Ola-branded businesses, has hired Nuvoco Vistas Corp chief general counsel (GC) Sandeep Chowdhury as its new GC.

Phillippe joins ShareChat T he former Zomato general counsel (GC) GT Thomas Phillippe , who had joined in 2018 and left in June 2020 and was recently replaced by L&L partner Damini Bhalla , has joined ShareChat as GC, according to an update on his Linked-in profile. He had been external general...

Flipkart GC Vijoya Roy to move to Pernod F lipkart group general counsel Bijoya Roy is due to join multinational alcoholic drinks giant Pernod Ricard as its South Asia GC from 12 April, reported Bar & Bench . She had joined Flipkart in Bangalore in 2019, shortly after it was bought by Walmart. ...

Arcelor Mittal Mumbai-based vice president legal and effective regional general counsel Sapan Gupta, who had joined in January 2020 from Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, has been promoted to group general counsel based in London, moneycontrol and others reported yesterday.

L&L Partner Damini Bhalla, who we had reported last week had resigned from the firm, is joining rapidly-growing food delivery unicorn Zomato as its general counsel (GC).

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi-based partner Sumeet Singh will be joining BharatPe as its new general counsel (GC), according to a press release from the company.

OYO Hotels & Homes has appointed former General Electric (GE) general counsel (GC) Tejal Patil has senior legal advisor for India and South Asia, as of 21 September.

The Mahindra Group’s real estate and infrastructure development arm, Mahindra Lifespaces Developers Limited, has hired Parveen Mahtani as its chief legal officer, based in Mumbai.

Algo Legal Gurgaon-based partner Vinayak Mishra has yesterday joined venture capital (VC) fund Lightspeed India Partners Advisors as its first de facto legal head for India and South-East Asia.

Mumbai-based Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas corporate and infrastructure projects partner Alice George will be joining Essar Ports as general counsel (GC), we have reliably learned.

Bangalore-based GE Global Research general counsel (GC) John Thaliath will be taking over as general counsel (GC) of the General Electric (GE) parent company for South Asia.

Credit Suisse director and head of legal Sapna Bhawnani has been promoted to head of legal for South Asia.

After the $3.8bn blockbuster acquisition of 2018 in which Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) acquired GSK India’s nutrition business, the involved legal teams have seen a major restructuring.

Mumbai-based India legal head of payments provider Ingenico Group, Tushar Tarun, is joining online payments start-up Razorpay as its director legal.

Ishita Kapur goes from alcohol business to holistic wellbeing D iageo India vice president & senior counsel Ishita Kapur has joined sports and wellness company RoundGlass as its general counsel and head of compliance this month. The company has as its goal “to create a vibrant wellness ecosyste...

Scoop: The arrangement of a partner temporarily heading legal at a company is a novel and interesting arrangement

The former AZB & Partners transaction support group (TSG) head and partner Ami Parikh has joined global credit check and financial analytics agency Experian India on 11 February as its head of legal and compliance, according to her Linked-in profile.

Scoop: He joins the mortgage giant as its legal head