Articles tagged with: general counsel (GC)

In uncommon move, Hindustan Unilever appoints its GC Dev Bajpai into board directorship

Dev Bajpai, executive director legal & corporate affairs at Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL), and vice president legal for South Asia at Unilever, has been appointed as executive director at HUL’s board of eight members.

PayU GC, e-payments regs expert Sheetal Sawhney Kapur joins Google India legal team

PayU Payments India vice president legal, regulatory and compliance, Sheetal Sawhney Kapur, has joined Google India’s legal team.

B4U GC Natasha Fernandes: Navigating corporate is easy but paying twice for TV content, with limited ad revenue, is not

For B4U Television’s director and head legal Natasha Fernandes, sustaining a small TV and movie distribution company’s business in the face of a regulatory threat to its main revenue model – advertisements – is the biggest challenge.

B4U GC Natasha Fernandes: Navigating corporate is easy but paying twice for TV content, with limited ad revenue, is not

For B4U Television’s director and head legal Natasha Fernandes, sustaining a small TV and movie distribution company’s business in the face of a regulatory threat to its main revenue model – advertisements – is the biggest challenge.

Infosys global GC leaves with nearly $1m severance • NLS-alum Gopi Krishnan to take over as GC for now

Infosys’ San Francisco-based general counsel (GC) David Kennedy has quit after a mutual agreement between him and the global Bangalore-headquartered IT giant, according to several reports of its stock exchange announcement:

Cyril Amarchand Hyd partner Anshuman Jaiswal to join Greenko as senior in-house lawyer

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Hyderabad partner Anshuman Jaiswal is going in-house to join Indian renewables giant Greenko Group in a senior position.

Ostro Energy GC Rachika Sahay interview: Working in a regulatory minefield as busy & challenging as private practice

Ostro Energy general counsel (GC) Rachika Sahay, who just closed her seventh power deal in less than two years said that in house roles are no less “grilling and consuming” than law firm life.

(Go)Indigo has a new GC: Gibson Dunn counsel Priya Mehra joins from Singapore with associate Bahadur

Indigo has hired a new general counsel (GC) with Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Singapore-based of counsel Priya Mehra, reported Bar & Bench.

IL&FS finds new GC with SunEdison India head Vinay Bhatia

SunEdison India general counsel (GC) and director legal of six years, Vinay Bhatia, has joined the IL&FS Financial Services as its new general counsel based in Chennai.

Sequoia-ex-Luthra lawyer Tanmay Amar joins Omidyar as new India GC

Sequoia Capital legal counsel Tanmay Amar will join as India general counsel (GC) Omidyar Networks, the “philanthropic investment firm” started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar in 2004, according to sources with knowledge of his move.

IL&FS’ Damini Marwah to join Axis Bank as GC

IL&FS Financial Services legal head and general counsel (GC) Damini Marwah has quit, VCCircle first reported today, with Bar & Bench reporting today that she has joined Axis Bank as its general counsel to replace TS Asokraj who is retiring.

Times Music legal head Sankalp Dalal to join Zee Music • Will grow legal team to 5

Sankalp Dalal, the legal head of Times Music, will be joining Zee Music as its new legal head from August.

Flipkart GC Rajinder Sharma leaves after 10 months for destination unknown (this week)

Sharma leaves Flipkart
Sharma leaves Flipkart
Flipkart group general counsel (GC) Rajinder Sharma has left the company after less than a year there

Essar GC Hemant Kumar joins L&T

Essar Group general counsel (GC) Hemant Kumar has resigned to Larsen &Toubro as its group general counsel, reported the Economic Times:

After year's absence, Mukesh Bhavnani returns to Bharti Airtel as group GC

Bharti sees more GC shuffles as Bhavnani returns
Bharti sees more GC shuffles as Bhavnani returns
Mukesh Bhavnani has returned to be group general counsel (GC) at Bharti Enterprises after a year of stints as Vedanta’s GC and some time out.

Simrata Gujral joins Jigar Shah's team at JP Morgan, after leading ANZ Bank legal

Former Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) Banking Group’s India lead counsel Simrata Gujral joined JP Morgan’s Asia Pacific corporate and institutional banking (CIB) Legal Team as assistant general counsel.

K Law bags ILFS group GC Pradeep Ratnam as senior partner, hires Tri-AZB-CB Krishna Venkat as partner

Ratnam returns to private practice
Ratnam returns to private practice
Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services (ILFS) group general counsel Pradeep Ratnam will be joining K Law as senior partner in Delhi.

Grofers gets new GC: Verus partner Siddharth Bhavnani joins trendy hyperlocal half-unicorn

Verus Advocates partner Siddharth Bhavnani has joined start-up Grofers as its first general counsel (GC).

Seasoned IDFC funds GC, Shagoofa Khan, to join Cyril Amarchand for post-Ashwath re-fund boost

Shagoofa Rashid Khan, the senior director and legal and compliance head at IDFC Alternatives, will join Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas as a funds partner to take over some of the practice left by Ashwath Rau, who will be joining AZB & Partners, according to authoritative sources.

Getting clients: Do GCs get swayed by wining, dining? Directories & brochures? Linked-in and Twitter?

The single-biggest thing that most GCs could agree onThe answer may be that it’s complicated and that there’s no silver bullet: a wide swath of factors matter (and don’t matter) in selecting lawyers by in-house counsel, revealed a survey of 65 general counsel (GCs) and senior legal managers by event management company IDEX Legal and information provider Thomson Reuters.
The single-biggest thing that most GCs could agree onThe answer may be that it’s complicated and that there’s no silver bullet: a wide swath of factors matter (and don’t matter) in selecting lawyers by in-house counsel, revealed a survey of 65 general counsel (GCs) and senior legal managers by event management company IDEX Legal and information provider Thomson Reuters.
in selecting lawyers by in-house counsel, revealed a survey of 65 general counsel (GCs) and senior legal managers by event management company IDEX Legal and information provider Thomson Reuters.”)The answer may be that it’s complicated and that there’s no silver bullet: a wide swath of factors matter (and don’t matter) in selecting lawyers by in-house counsel, revealed a survey of 65 general counsel (GCs) and senior legal managers by event management company IDEX Legal and information provider Thomson Reuters.