Lex Witness successfully completed India’s 1st ever In-House Counsel Summit Series covering 3 cities over a span of 20 business days. With over 75 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 a reminiscence through a visual gallery that let’s you through the summits at New Delhi, Mumbai & Bangalore.
Opening Remarks – Dr. Lalit Bhasin, President, The Society of Indian Law Firms
Special Address by The Summit Chair – AS Kumar, Former General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd.
In the current times of high power governance and a cut throat competition, business houses in the country have taken into account the criticality of the legal desk. The In-House Counsel is now not only expected to take care of the legal aspects of the organization but envisage and visualize relevant business dimensions. The panel focused on various challenges that the In-House Counsel faces internally as well as externally to create a successful cohesive decision at large.
Hon’ble Justice SS Nijjar, Supreme Court of India – Session Chair
S Ramaswamy, EVP – Group GC, Escorts Limited & President, ICCA – Moderator
Harsh Shrivastava, Senior VP Corporate Affairs, SREI Infrastructure
RL Batta, Head Legal, Jaypee Group
Ramesh Vaidyanathan, Managing Partner, Advaya Legal
Shahana Basu Kanodia, Global GC, Amira Nature Foods
Sudip Gupta, VP-Legal (Asia), American Towers
Sujeet Jain, Group General Counsel & Company Secretary, Viacom 18 – Moderator
Ganesh Parameswaran, Chief Legal Officer, Cello Writing Aids
Hemant Kumar, Group General Counsel, Essar Group
Meera Vanjari, Sr. VP and GC, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals
Ramesh Vaidyanathan, Managing Partner, Advaya Legal
Sumant Nayak, General Counsel, Essar Power
Baminee Viswanat, Director Legal & CS – India, Regional Ethics & Compliance Counsel – Asia Pacific, Lenovo India – Moderator
Mukundan Bharathan, Associate Director – Legal, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories
R Hiranmai, Regional Director – South & SE Asia & Australia – Legal, Cushman & Wakefield India
Rackhee Biswas, General Manager – Legal, Mindtree
Sanjay Kumar Singh, Assistant Vice President – Legal, Aricent
Recently regulatory aspects have been going through dynamic changes which are irrespective of Industry Sector. In such scenario It becomes inevitable for an In-House Counsel to seek a well advised approach on how to overcome the challenges and meet the functional requirements of any and every regulatory ‘change’ that comes in at any moment of time and has vital impact on ‘business’. The panel focused on discussing major regulatory aspects and recently announced updates.
Himavat Chaudhuri, Chief Legal and Regulatory Affairs Officer, Tata Sky- Moderator
Jayashree Swaminathan, CEO, Chess Consulting
Ketan Mukhija, Sr. VP – Legal (Corporate Strategy & Planning), SREI Infrastructure Finance
Srivals Kumar, General Counsel & Head – Legal, Flipkart.com
Subodh Prasad Deo, Partner, Saikrishna & Associates
Vinod Dhall, Former Chairman, Competition Commission of India – Session Chair
Mukundan Bharathan, Associate Director – Legal, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories – Moderator
Dattatri HM, Head – Legal & Secretarial, Essilor India
Rajeev Nair, Director, Country Counsel – India, Hewlett-Packard
Sharanya Ranga, Partner, Advaya Legal
Subodh Prasad Deo, Partner, Saikrishna & Associates
The Indian IP Regime has been witnessing various moods and noises. Of course merely because of the individual characteristics of the industry sector one would want to refer to. However, while there hesitation as well. Is it protective enough for the domestic players as well as promising enough for the international players? The panel focused on a bird’s eye view of the IP scenario of the country.
Meenu Chandra, Director IP Policy – Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft India –Moderator
Ashish Chandra, General Counsel, Snapdeal.com
Lakshika Joshi, Head – Content Licensing & Syndication, Bennett Coleman and Co.
Saikrishna Rajagopal, Managing Partner, Saikrishna & Associates
Vikrant Rana, Managing Partner, SS Rana & Co.
Zameer Nathani, Director Legal, Raymond – Moderator
Anil Lale, Group General Counsel, Zee Entertainment and Zee News
Ayan Roy Chowdhury, Senior IPR Professional, M & E Industry
J. Sai Deepak, Senior Associate, Saikrishna & Associates
Sanjay Kumar, Head Legal, Piramal Imaging SA
Taranpreet S. Lamba, Vice President- Intellectual Property, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals
Subhadip Sarkar, Senior Director – IP, Cognizant Technology Solutions – Moderator
Dr. Anindya Sircar, AVP & Head of IP Cell, Infosys
Faiz ur Rahman, Head – IP, Team Legal, Wipro
J.Sai Deepak, Senior Associate, Saikrishna & Associates
Risk and Compliance have now become one of the most important mandates that an In-House Counsel has to look into as on date. Whether it is forecasting risks that might arise due to non compliance or timely meeting all compliance needs effectively, one needs an efficient advisory in place.
Ketan Mukhija, Sr. VP-Legal (Corp. Strategy & Planning), SREI Infrastructure Finance – Moderator
Gaurav Ajmani, Senior Corporate Counsel, Amazon.in
Himavat Chaudhuri, Chief Legal and Regulatory Affairs Officer, Tata Sky
Indranil Choudhury, Founder & CEO of Lexplosion Solutions
Manish Lamba, General Counsel, Bharti Retail
Tom Heerey, Senior Attorney and Director, Legal and Corporate Affairs, Microsoft Corporation
Ganesh Parameswaran, Chief Legal Officer, Cello Writing Aids – Moderator
Jayashree Swaminathan, CEO, Chess Consulting
Kiran Chitale, Head Legal – Operations and Technology, India, Barclays Technology Centre India
Rohit Mahajan, Senior Director and Head, Deloitte Forensic
Siddharth Singh, Founder & COO, Lexplosion Solutions
Suraj Singh, Head of Legal & Compliance, Sandoz India
GV Anand Bhushan, GC, Cognizant Solutions – Moderator
Amit Bansal, Senior Director, Deloitte Forensic (India)
Jayashree Swaminathan, CEO, Chess Consulting
Manish Kumar, Associate Principal – Quality Programs, Infosys
Parag Deodhar, Chief Risk Officer, Bharti AXA General Insurance
Shujath Bin Ali, Senior Legal Counsel & Company Secretary, International Paper-India
Land Acquisition and many other further dimensions around the ‘usage’ of a piece of land has always been a grey area for business houses in general. There have been noticeable moments of huge reputational as well as financial losses that corporates have gone through merely because of a care less eye when it comes to the ‘piece of land’ being referred to.
Chetan Dutt, Associate Director – Legal, VIRIDIAN RED – Moderator
Alok Kumar, Senior Partner, THS – The Law Firm
RL Batta, Head Legal, Jaypee Group
Manish Lamba, General Counsel, Bharti Retail
Tanmay Bhargav, Director, Deloitte Forensic (India)
Amit Bansal, Senior Director, Deloitte Forensic (India)
The ambiguity created by the New Companies Act is leading companies to a state of panic, wherein they struggle to understand & implement day to day legal processes and making key business decisions.
Mukundan Bharathan, Associate Director Legal, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories – Moderator
B Gopalakrishnan, Head Legal & HR, ARCIL
Divya Kumat, Corporate Head Legal & Company Secretary, Datamatics Global Services
Sumant Nayak, General Counsel, Essar Power
Stricter insider trading regulations and recent changes in delisting guidelines shall bring in tricky times for internal as well as external counsel. The panel focused on highlighting major aspects of the kind of challenges the new guidelines.
B Gopalakrishnan, Head Legal & HR, ARCIL – Moderator
Divya Kumat, Corporate Head Legal & Company Secretary, Datamatics Global Services
Mukundan Bharathan, Assistant Director Legal, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories
Savithri Parekh, Chief Legal & Secretarial, Pidilite Industries
With the involvement of advance technology in day to day process of organizations, irrespective of industry sectors and with Privacy and Data Protection becoming major concerns for organizations it is of dire need for all to understand the applicability of IT ACT to secure themselves from any possible.
Kavitha Gupta, APAC Legal Counsel, Hitachi Consulting Software Services India – Moderator
J. Sai Deepak, Senior Associate, Saikrishna & Associates
Lokesh Rajpal, Director Legal, Flipkart.com
Rikhab Chand, Senior Attorney, IBM India/South Asia
SK Murthy, Patent Counsel, Intel India
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