Articles tagged with: in-house moves

Razorpay hires Tushar Tarun as new GC from Ingenico/EBS

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

Diageo VP legal Ishita Kapur moves to GC at wellness, football, hockey company Roundglass

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...

TTA partner Shruti Zota seconded to GSK as GC; Nischal Hindia seconds to London

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

Ex-AZB’s Ami Parikh joins credit checkers Experian India as head legal

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.

SAM finance head Sapan Gupta to join ArcelorMittal as India+ GC

National head of banking and finance and partner at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, Sapan Gupta, is set to join Indo-French multinational steel ArcelorMittal in a senior regional general counsel (GC)-like role in Mumbai, according to two sources with knowledge of his move.

Ex-CAM partner, ‘08 HNLU grad Vedant Shukla moves to Ultratech as global M&A GM

Former Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai partner Vedant Shukla has joined Ultratech Cement as general manager (GM) legal for global M&A.

L&T Finance legal chief Raju Dodti becomes biz head of Infra Finance vertical on rarely-trod GC-CEO path

He is possibly only the second lawyer after InterGlobe’s Aditya Ghosh to be making a similar journey from GC to CEO at such a major corporate

Credit Suisse India head Sapna Bhawnani to join PE fund KKR & ex-colleague

Mumbai-based Credit Suisse director and India head of legal, Sapna Bhawnani, is set to join KKR in the new year as its second in-house lawyer in India.

Kraft Heinz GC Preeti Balwani moves to Bangalore, Coke as GC

Preeti Balwani moves jobs, cities Mumbai-based The Kraft Heinz Company general counsel (GC) and executive director, Preeti Balwani , has joined Coca Cola-owned bottling operator, Hindustan Coca Cola Beverages Pvt Ltd as its general counsel . The former Singhania & Partners partner and Welspun G...

IndiGo GC Priya Mehra resigns as turbulence continues

General counsel (GC) of InterGlobe Aviation-operated airline IndiGo, Priya Mehra, has resigned and is set to leave the airline by early 2020, according to authoritative market sources.

Post ‘intense’ MIT MBA, ex-SAM partner Karthik Mahalingam joins Flipkart as head of corp governance

Karthik Mahalingam, who in 2018 had left partnership at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) in Bangalore for a one-year MBA at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has returned to India to head up Walmart-owned online shop Flipkart as head of corporate governance, according to Linked-in.

Ola hails new group general counsel: Vedanta’s Nitin Banerjee joins sprawling tech-taxi empire

Former group general counsel (GC) of resources giant Vedanta Limited, Nitin Banerjee, has joined the Ola group, which is fast becoming a technology conglomerate, as its group GC.

Vedanta metals+power GC Jasmeet Wadehra joins Visa as South Asia legal head

Vedanta Delhi-based general counsel (GC) of its iron ore, steel and power verticals Jasmeet Wadehra has joined Visa in Mumbai as vice president legal for India and South Asia in July of this year.

Remfry PA Samridh Bhardwaj joins UK online bank OakNorth as SVP legal with global remit

Remfy & Sagar managing associate Samridh Bhardwaj has joined OakNorth Analytical Intelligence as senior vice president legal and transactional based in Gurgaon.

Top deck reshuffled at Bharti: Airtel GC Sameer Chugh takes over as group GC from Bhavnani, Vidyut Gulati to head Airtel

Bharti Airtel director legal Sameer Chugh has been promoted to group general counsel at the Bharti Group, as first reported by Legal Era.

Vedanta group general counsel (+ ex JSA partner) Nitin Banerjee exits; destination, replacement TBC

Vedanta Limited group general counsel (GC) Nitin Banerjee has resigned from the company last week, we understand from authoritative sources.

Netflix stream of hires continues: Ex-Googler Sheetal Kapur to join as director legal for business

Google in-houser Sheetal Sawhney Kapur has joined Netflix’s rapidly growing in-house team in India as senior counsel and director legal.

CAM partner Sourav Kanti De Biswas joins unicorn Indus-AZB-client Oyo as VP with transactions focus

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi-based partner Sourav Kanti De Biswas has joined gazillion-dollar-valued hotel chain Oyo as vice president legal last month.

Nike GC Priya Menon (NLS ‘96) changes track as unicorn WeWork’s new India GC

Nike India director legal Priya Menon has joined US-headquartered co-working behemoth WeWork as its India general counsel (GC).

Snapdeal in-house grows by 50%, ends funding dry spell via Anand Piramal round without law firms

E-commerce player Snapdeal has expanded its in-house legal team by 50% to nine members, after hiring three in recent months, with its in-house team closing a fundraising round from Piramal Group executive director Anand Piramal without external legal advisers.