In-house counsel

Trilegal counsel Tanya Mehta moves into legal investment VP role at Brookfield Asset Management

Trilegal counsel Tanya Mehta has joined Brookfield Asset Management in its investment team as vice president in a legal role.

Singapore-based NLS grad Nandini Navale joins tech start-up Ecosystm as GC

NLSIU Bangalore graduate Nandini Navale has joined Singapore-based 2016-founded private equity-backed start-up Ecosystm, as its first in-house lawyer and general counsel (GC) last month.

Mason AP, tech-copyrights head Ankit Relan joins Facebook as lead counsel

Technology lawyer Ankit Relan, associate partner at technology firm Mason & Associates Advocates, which counts Google amongst its clients, has joined Facebook India in Gurgaon as lead counsel.

Tata Sons legal shrinks to 6 after lateral defections gift 4 other Cos legal heads, senior IH counsel

Five in-house lawyers in Tata Sons’ legal team, which is headed by former Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas partner Shuva Mandal, have moved to other companies in in-house positions over the last year, Bar & Bench has reported.

Viacom18 GC Sujeet Jain joins UltraTech as legal head

Sujeet Jain, the group general counsel and company secretary of Viacom18, has joined UltraTech Cement as chief legal officer (CLO) in Mumbai in April.

WhatsApp creates India in-house team, hires Netflix, ex-Snapdeal legal head Ashish Chandra

Netflix India director legal Ashish Chandra has joined WhatsApp as associate general counsel (GC) India, making him the messaging giant’s first in-house legal hire in India.

HCL Tech GC Vineet Vij moves to Tech Mahindra as global GC

HCL Technologies vice president and head legal, Vineet Vij , has joined Tech Mahindra as its global general counsel, reported Legal Era . Vij will be managing Tech Mahindra’s global legal operations, having joined on 29 April. He had been at HCL for nearly 12 years, before which he was heading compl...

Netflix creates Indian in-house IP vertical in growing team with Balaji VP legal Priyanka Chaudhari

Balaji Telefilms vice president legal Priyanka Chaudhari has joined Netflix Entertainment Services India LLP as its legal director and senior counsel in the regional intellectual property vertical yesterday.

AMSS, NLS alum, entrepreneur Gauri Manglik joins investment behemoth Softbank in part-India-facing role

Former (long-time-ago) Amarchand Mangaldas senior associate and 2003 NLSIU Bangalore graduate Gauri Manglik has joined Japanese-headquartered private equity powerhouse Softbank Group International as corporate counsel in San Carlos, in California’s Silicon Valley.

Sequoia India GC of 9 years, Sandeep Kapoor, to leave • VP Siddharth Rao to take top job

Bangalore-based director legal at top venture capital (VC) fund Sequoia Capital, Sandeep Kapoor, will be leaving the firm, probably by the end of this month, according to authoritative sources.

Top smartphone maker OnePlus lifts ‘14 Christ grad Maitrayee Sanyal into first India GC role

Maitrayee Sanyal has been promoted to local general counsel (GC) at mobile phone maker OnePlus, India, earlier this year.

In challenging post-RERA regime, ex-RNA GC, Hammurabi partner Vidya Adsule joins Sheth builder as GC

Former RNA Corp general counsel (GC) Vidya Adsule joined the Mumbai-based $300m+ net worth realtor Ashwin Sheth Group, run by Sheth Corp, as group GC.

Walmart’s Flipkart gets new general counsel: Bijoya Roy joins from Thomson Reuters during challenging times

Thomson Reuters general counsel for global emerging markets, Bijoya Roy, has taken up the position to head Flipkart in Bangalore under its new Walmart owners.

Recent Link Legal partner Darshika Singh reprises secondment, joins Japanese giant Mitsui in-house

Link Legal India Law Services associate partner Darshika Singh has joined Japanese conglomerate Mitsui & Co’s India subsidiary in-house, in its Delhi legal team in mid-January.

Cairn GC Nitin Banerjee elevated to Vedanta group GC, plugs gap of 3+ years post-Mukesh Bhavnani

Cairn Oil & Gas general counsel (GC) Nitin Banerjee was elevated to group general counsel at Vedanta Limited on 20 December, finally filling in the gap created by his predecessor Mukesh Bhavnani’s exit more than three years ago.

Khaitan PA Soumyadri Chattopadhyaya joins client Parkway Pantai as 1st lawyer post Fortis-IHH buyout [CORRECTION]

Khaitan & Co principal associate Soumyadri Chattopadhyaya has joined healthcare provider Parkway Pantai India as legal counsel on Tuesday.

Ex-Inox Leisure legal head Dhanraj Mulki joins Mahindra Hols in leadership group as GC, CS

Former Inox Leisure vice president legal and company secretary Dhanraj Mulki has joined Mahindra Holidays as general counsel and company secretary.

Trilegal counsel Arpan Chowdhury joins SSG Advisors as VP legal, following Praveen Thomas

Trilegal counsel Arpan Chowdhury has joined financial and investment advisory firm SSG Advisors as vice president legal this month.

Tributes remember the man in a hurry: Pathbreaking GC, DSK consultant Girish Gokhale

On 27th November 2008, a day after the worst terror attack on Mumbai (and India), when the working folks of Mumbai were not to be found at their work places, among the few to be found working was Girish Gokhale.

Khaitan associate partner Abhimanyu Ghosh (NUJS ‘07) joins NDB as senior in-houser

Khaitan & Co associate partner Abhimanyu Ghosh joined multilateral development bank New Development Bank (NDB) this month as senior professional, legal.