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The Grand Masters 2017 – An Overview of The Legal Mahasabha

The Grand Masters 2017 – An Overview of The Legal Mahasabha

Lex Witness successfully completed its 4th Annual In-House Counsel Legal Best Practices Summit Series covering 3 cities over a span of 30 days. With over 90 Speakers, 300 Delegates & 34 Hours of igniting discussions, the series concluded with an insight into the various undercurrents of the Indian Legal Fraternity. Here’s reminiscence through a visual gallery of the New Delhi, Mumbai & Bengaluru Editions.

OPENING REMARKS

New Delhi Edition – Badrinath Durvasula, Senior Vice President, Adani Group, Summit Chair

Mumbai Edition – Debolina Partap, Vice President & General Counsel, Wockhardt Group, Summit Chair

Bengaluru Edition – Pawan Singhal, Executive Director of Legal and General Counsel, 3M India, Summit Chair

THE EVOLVING ROLE OF A GENERAL COUNSEL – ARE YOU STILL IN THE RACE? New Delhi Session

Badrinath Durvasula, Senior Vice President, Adani Group – MODERATOR

Ameet Datta, Partner, Saikrishna & Associates

Anupam Sharan, Director Legal, Regulatory & Compliance, American Express

Ashish Chandra, Senior VP & Group General Counsel – Legal & Tax, Snapdeal.com

Manish Lamba, General Counsel, Bharti Realty

Neera Sharma, Chief Legal Officer, Sistema Shyam TeleServices

Ugen Bhutia, Executive Vice President – Legal Head, SBI Card

Mumbai Session

Zameer Nathani, Director Legal, Raymond – MODERATOR

Chakradhar V., Head – Corporate Legal, Godrej Industries

Divya Kumat, Sr. VP – Legal & CS, Datamatics Global Services

Rajeev Dewal, Head – Legal, RBL Bank

Vinay Bhatia, SVP & General Counsel – Legal, IL&FS Financial Services

Bengaluru Session

S.Mahadevan, Executive VPLegal.Compliance & Risk Management, Hinduja Global Solutions – MODERATOR

Aditi Jha, General Counsel – India, Linkedln

Gautam Rohidekar, Chief Legal Officer, Cipla

P.M. Devaiah, Partner and General Counsel, Everstone Capital Advisors

Pawan Laddha, Director Legal, Freecharge Paytech

Pawan Singhal, Executive Director – Legal and General Counsel, 3M India

FOCUSSED PRESENTATION- ‘PROFILE OF A FRAUDSTER’
Mumbai Session

Shashank Karnad, Partner & COO Forensics, KPMG in India

Bengaluru Session

Varun Joshi, Associate Director, Forensic Services, KPMG in India

THE BIG FACE OFF

Conducting Internal Investigations pursuant to Whistle-Blower Complaints, Sexual Harassment Grievances and other Company Breaches

Mumbai Session

Avik Biswas, Partner, IndusLaw

Sandhya Vishal, Chief Counsel and Ombudsman, South Asia, Nielsen

Bengaluru Session

Avik Biswas, Partner, lnduslaw

Vinod Kumar B., Head Legal, Strides Shasun

THE IPR SAGAS – CREATION TO ENFORCEMENT
New Delhi Session

Lakshika Joshi, General Counsel & HeadIP & Licensing, Nucleus Software – MODERATOR

Akshat Sulalit, Director- Head Legal & Compliance, IBIBO Group

Sheetal Chopra, India Lead – IPR Advocacy, Ericsson India

Shruti Kaushik, Director, Patentwire Consultants

Sidharth Chopra, Partner, Saikrishna & Associates

Vaibhav Khanna, Head – Intellectual Property, Sterlite Technologies

Mumbai Session

Meera Vanjari, Sr. Vice President and General Counsel, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals – MODERATOR

Amit Thukral, Sr. Vice President – Legal Affairs & General Counsel, UFO Moviez

Lalit Ambastha, Founder and Patent Attorney, Patentwire

Shantanu Mukherjee, Legal Head, APAC and Japan, Lupin

Zameer Nathani, Director Legal, Raymond

Bengaluru Session

Gautam Rohidekar, Chief LegalOfficer, Cipla – MODERATOR

Aneesh Garg, Associate General Counsel, Flipkart Internet

Lalit Ambastha, Founder and Patent Attorney, PatentWire Consultants

Partha Sarathy, Global Corporate Counsel, Marlabs

Shelly Kohli, Asst.General Counsel, LeviStrauss & Co.

Subhadip Sarcar, Senior Director -IP, Cognizant Technology Solutions

THE COURT ROOM TALKS – LITIGATE – MEDIATE – ARBITRATE
New Delhi Session

Jasmeet Wadehra, Head – Legal, Power, Vedanta Group – MODERATOR

Dr. Sunil Mittal, General Counsel, Kalpataru Power

K.P.S. Kohli, Associate Partner, Dhir and Dhir Associates

S. Ravi Shankar, Senior Partner, Law Senate

Mumbai Session

Anurag K. Shukla, Head – Legal, Kotak Mahindra Old Mutual Life Insurance Ltd. – MODERATOR

K.P.S Kohli, Associate Partner, Dhir and Dhir

Lomesh Kiran Nidumuri, Partner, IndusLaw

Pankaj Patel, Head – Legal (Corporate Planning), Future Group

S Ravi Shankar, Sr. Partner, Law Senate

Sachin Kalra, Head – Legal, Bharti AXA Life Insurance

Bengaluru Session

Anurag Sharma, GeneralCounsel, OLA Cabs – MODERATOR

Ashok Kumar P, Lead Legal Counsel, ABB India

Lomesh Kiran Nidumuri, Partner, IndusLaw

Manish Kumar, General Counsel, Zoomcar.com

Pranav Mago, Head (South Asia), SIAC

S.Ravi Shankar, Senior Partner, Law Senate

Vinod Kumar.B, Head Legal, Strides Shasun

FOCUSED PRESENTATION – MANAGING RISK AND COMPLIANCE IN A CHANGING WORLD STRATEGIES FOR NAVIGATING A CHANGING REGULATORY AND COMMERCIAL LANDSCAPE

Legal teams are increasingly asked to do more with less. In this session find out how many leading firms are improving their compliance and lowering their risk profile while realizing the maximum value of their commercial relationships.

Mumbai Session

Monish Darda, CTO & Co-Founder, ICERTIS

Bengaluru Session

Rajeev Kumar, VP Sales, APAC ICERTIS

THE REGULATORY RAGE – IS INDIA INC. STILL STRUGGLING THROUGH?
New Delhi Session

Dr. Akhil Prasad, Country Counsel India, Boeing – MODERATOR

Dr. Manoj Kumar, Managing Partner, Hammurabi & Solomon

Nilesh Sharma, Senior Partner, Dhir and Dhir

Prateush Sharma, General Counsel, Mankind Pharma

Yogesh Wadhwa, Vice President & Lead Counsel, General Motors India Pic

Mumbai Session

Srinivas Upadhyayula, Head – Legal Infrastructure Debt Fund – MODERATOR

Atul Juvle, GC, Compliance Officer & CS India & South Asia, Schindler India

Nilesh Sharma, Partner, Dhir and Dhir

Samir Hossain, Joint VP & Head Legal – Project & Structured Finance, Aditya Birla Finance

Bengaluru Session

Pradeep Rao, Head of Compliance, State Street Global Advisors, India – MODERATOR

Alok Dhir, Founder & Managing Partner, Dhir and Dhir Associates

Kundan Lal, Head of Legal & Company Secretary, Sonata Softwares

Shujath Bin Ali, Senior Director- Legal and Risk Management & Company Secretary, PAREXEL International – India

Subodh P. Deo, Partner, Saikrishna & Associates

DEMYSTIFYING GOVERNANCE, RISK, COMPLIANCE MAZE. COMPLIANT ENOUGH?
New Delhi Session

Pathik Arora, Assistant General Counsel & Company Secretary, InterGlobe Hotels – MODERATOR

Lakshika Joshi, General Counsel & HeadIP & Licensing, Nucleus Software

Manish Gupta, President – General Counsel & CS, Usha International

Rajeev Merkhedkar, General Counsel, Global CIOO Legal, Regulatory & Legal Ops, Nokia

Mumbai Session

Anubhav Kapoor, General Counsel and Company Secretary, Tata Technologies – MODERATOR

Kiran Chitale, Country Head of Legal, Operations and Technology, India, Barclays Technology Centre

Monish Darda, CTO & Co-Founder, ICERTIS

Salman Waris, Partner – Head TMT and IP Practice, TechLegis Advocate & Solicitors

Shantanu Mukherjee, Legal Head, APAC and Japan, Lupin

Shashank Karnad, Partner & COO Forensics, KPMG in India

Bengaluru Session

Agnidipta Sarkar, Global Information Risk & Continuity Officer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise – MODERATOR

Dattatri H.M., Head Legal & Secretarial, Essilor India

Hiranmai R., ED & Associate GC India & S.E Asia – Global Occupier Services – APAC Legal, Cushman & Wakefield

Mustafa Surka, Director Forensic Services, KPMG in India

Rajeev Kumar, VP Sales, APAC, ICERTIS

AND THE WINNERS ARE!

The Summit ended with an exciting gala luckydraw and the winners for a Kindle Wifi eReader as the grand prize of the day followed by Philips Portable Multimedia Speaker and Philips Portable Bluetooth Speakers as runner ups.

New Delhi Session

Grand Prize Winner – Aastha Arora, Interglobe Hotels

1st Runner Up – Ashwini Rakesh, Dhir & Dhir Associates

2nd Runner Up – Ramandeep Kaur, Intelenet

Mumbai Edition

Grand Prize Winner – Pradyumna Pal, Experion

1st Runner Up – Kaushal Mehta, KPMG in India

2nd Runner Up – Monika Gupta, B4U

Bengaluru Edition

Grand Prize Winner – Vinay Behl, Litera

1st Runner Up – Nirupama Pillai, Infosys

2nd Runner Up – S. Ravi Shankar, Law Senate

AND THAT’S NOT ALL

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