The fourth edition of the BW Legal World General Counsel Conclave and Awards 2024 was held at the Imperial, New Delhi on May 11, 2024.
The fourth edition of the BW Legal World General Counsel Conclave and Awards is an initiative to recognise and reward the prolific General Counsel who have made a mark for themselves in the profession. 180 total nominations of General Counsel were received and 151 were presented to the Jury by BW Legal World team. The jury deliberated upon each individual and marked them accordingly.
The conclave was marked by India's top lawyers and General Counsel sharing their knowledge about the changing role of GC and the fine print of how a GC navigates a company through different scenarios. The scintillating panel discussions shared deep insights into how GC operates. The panelists engaged on diverse topics of law like White Collar Crimes, Artificial Intelligence, corporate governance etc.
The Jury Chair Shri Dhanendra Kumar, Former Chairperson, Competition Commission of India and Chairperson, Competition Advisory Services LLP, said that General Counsel is the most important and go-to person for senior officials and their advice is valuable for smooth company operations.
The winners to be featured in BW Legal World Top 100 + General Counsel List were also announced during the high-profile event attended by 100+ General Counsel from all over the country.
The Eminent Jury comprised of: -
| Name | Designation | Company |
| Mr. Dhanendra Kumar | Chairperson | Competition Advisory Services (India) LLP |
| Ms. Shukla Wassan | Independent Director | GE |
| Mr. CV Raghu | Former Group General Counsel | Samvardhana Motherson Group |
| Mr. Hemant Kumar | Group General Counsel | L&T |
| Ms. Manjaree Chowdhary | Senior Executive Director & GC | Maruti Suzuki India |
| Mr. Pankaj Vasani | Group CFO, Cube Highways InvIT | Board Member, Cube Highways |
| Mr. Pulin Kumar | Ex- Sr. Legal Director | Adidas India |
| Dr Subir Bikas Mitra | Advisor (Law), DGH/Sr Advisor, HCSC, MoPNG and Adjunct Professor, IIMs | |
| Mr Manish Lamba | General Counsel | DLF Cyber City Developers |
| Sameet Gambhir | VP (Corp. Law) & Company Secretary | DCM Shriram Ltd. |
| Krishnava Dutt | Managing Partner | Argus Partners |
The Winner List of Top 100+ General Counsel : -
Disclaimer: This list should not be considered as ranking. This is based on time honoured experience of General Counsel and is in alphabetical order.
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Name | Designation | Organisation |
A. Shanmuga Sundaram | General Counsel | ITC Limited |
Abhayan Jawaharlal | Deputy Global General Counsel ang Global Chief Compliance Officer | Cipla Ltd. |
Abhimanyu Singh Poonia | General Counsel, India | Bank of America |
Ajay Pratap Singh | Group General Counsel, Company Secretary and Compliance Officer | Sona BLW Precision Forgings Ltd. |
Akriti Gandotra | Head- Legal | Azure Power |
Ami Parikh | General Counsel | Asian Paints Limited |
Amit Deshpande | General Counsel & Company Secretary | Sterlite Technologies |
Amit Jindal | Chief Law Officer & Head of Legal Department | Directorate General of Hydrocarbons |
Amit Kumar | Head of Legal | Tejas Networks Limited |
Amit Kumar Das | Group Head Legal | Thermax Limited |
Amit Moghay | General Counsel | The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), India |
Amit Saxena | General Counsel | HCL Infosystems Limited |
Amitesh Bhattacharya | Group General Counsel | Yubi (CredAvenue Private Limited) |
Anil Lale | General Counsel | Viacom18 Media Private Limited |
Anirban Deb Ray | General Counsel | Tata Communications |
Anubhav Kapoor | General Counsel & Senior Vice President | Samvardhana Motherson Group |
Anurag Chauhan | General Counsel | Maxlife Insurance |
Arpita Sen | Associate General Counsel, Head of Business Legal | Intel India |
Arun Mathew | Head of Legal and Compliance | Kotak Investment Banking |
Ashish Chandra | General Counsel | CoinSwitch |
Ashish Lakhtakia | Chief Legal & Compliance Officer and Company Secretary | Future Generali India Insurance Company Limited |
Ashok Kumar P | Head - Legal and Compliance | Arcellor Mittal Nippon Steel |
Atindra Basu | Group General Counsel and Company Secretary | Greaves Cotton Ltd |
Attreyi Mukherjee | General Counsel | Tata Industries Limited |
Avantika B. | Group General Counsel | Swiggy |
Baminee Viswanat | Global General Counsel | TVS Supply Chain Solutions Ltd. |
Bhavi Sanghvi | General Counsel | KKR India |
Bhavna Singh | General Counsel | Subex |
Binu N S Puri | General Counsel | Bajaj Electricals Ltd. |
Bishwarup Chakrabarti | General Counsel | Eros Media World PLC |
Biswa Batsal Patnaik | General Counsel | Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) |
Deepak Jacob | Group General Counsel | Dream Sports Group |
Devika Chadha | General Counsel | Sunsure Energy Private Limited |
Divya Kumat | Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer And Company Secretary | Datamatics |
Divya Sridhar | Managing Director Legal, India | FedEx Express |
Dr. Kumudani Sharma | General Manager (Legal) | Oil India Limited |
Dr. Sagar Suresh Dhole | Senior Counsel - India and South Asia | Employment Law | Legal and Global Affairs | Mastercard |
Gagan Palta | General Counsel | Uno Minda Limited |
Gopi Krishnan | General Counsel | WNS |
Harshitha Thammaiah | Senior Director and General Counsel | Xiaomi India |
Hemant Rajora | Chief General Manager (Legal) | Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL) |
Hrishikesh Chitnis | General Counsel | Mahindra Logistics |
Jyothi V K | General Counsel and Sr. Vice President | Aditya Birla Fashion |
Kapil Chaudhary | Executive VP-Legal and General Counsel | Info Edge (India) Ltd. |
Kiran Desai | General Counsel | Netflix |
Kumar Raman Shrivastava | Senior Deputy General Manager & Legal Head | SOM Group of Companies |
Lakshman Singh | General Counsel | Siemens Gamesa |
Lavanya Chandan | General Counsel | Lenskart |
Madhav Anchan | General Counsel | TCS |
Madhav Rao Uppuluri | General Counsel | Tata Motors |
Mahesh Thakar | Group General Counsel - Sr. Vice President | Ashok Leyland |
Manoj Gujaran | Chief Compliance Officer and Head – Legal & CSR | Poonawalla Fincorp Limited |
Maushmi Dasgupta | Group Head Legal | PVR INOX Ltd |
Mayuri Vats | Director – Legal | Vande Bharat Project |
Mihir Rale | Chief Regional Counsel, India | Disney Star India |
Motty John | Chief Legal Officer And Head of Board Affairs | PNB MetLife |
Mrinal Sinha | Managing Counsel, Downstream India | Shell India |
Mritunjay Kumar Singh | Head- Legal | Ahluwalia Contracts (India) Ltd. |
Panduranga Acharya | General Counsel | Zepto |
Parag Mathur | Group General Counsel | PhonePe Private Limited |
Parvatheesam Kanchinadham | Company Secretary and Chief Legal Officer (Corporate & Compliance) | Tata Steel |
Parvesh Kheterpal | General Counsel | Ampyr Energy |
Pathik Arora | General Counsel | Senvion India |
PC Vishwanathan | GM, (Law) | NTPC |
Pooja Sehgal Mehtani | General Counsel | Sun Life Global Solutions & Company Secretary, Sun Life Global Solutions,India |
Poovanna Ammatanda | General Counsel & Company Secretary | Hitachi Energy India Ltd. |
Prateush Sharma | General Counsel | MANKIND PHARMA LTD |
Priyam Singhvi | General Counsel and Compliance Officer- India & SA | Schindler India Private Limited |
Priyanka Walesha | Head Legal | Yum! Brands |
Priyanshu Pandey | General Manager – Legal and Company Secretary | UNIQLO India Pvt. Ltd. |
Puneet Parihar | General Counsel | KreditBee |
Purvasha Mansharamani | AVP Legal | Stride Ventures & Stride One Capital Private Limited |
R.S. Sachdeva | President (Group-Legal) | JK Organisation |
Rajagopal Venkatakrishnan | Senior Vice President – Legal | Reliance Industries |
Rajiv Chandan | Chief General Counsel & Company Secretary | Tata Chemicals |
Rajiv Malik | Dy. General Manager -Legal (Noida Mfg.) | LG Electronics India Pvt. Ltd. |
Rakesh Chandra Sinha | Legal Head | Sun Pharma |
Ranju Goyal | General Counsel | Stanza Living |
Rashmi Kathpalia | Director, Legal & Compliance | Technip Energies India Ltd. |
Ravi Srivastava | Group General Counsel | Ampersand Group & Vibgyor Group Of Schools |
Ruchika Nayyar | General Counsel | Nexus Malls (part of Blackstone Group) |
Saikat Sarkar | Global General Counsel | Eicher Motors Ltd |
Samir Kazi | Executive Vice President & Head Legal, Compliance & IP | Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Limited |
Sandeep Rajput | Head of Legal & Recoveries | IIFL Finance Limited |
Sandhya Yadav | CGM - Chief Legal Services | Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. |
Sanjukta Kulkarni | General Counsel | LTIMindtree Limited |
Sapna Bhawnani | Executive Director – Head Legal India and Other Countries (South East Asia, Korea and Taiwan) | UBS AG |
Saswata Dhar | Legal , Secretarial & Compliance | Pidilite Industries Limited |
Saugata Chakravarty | Chief Legal Officer | GRASIM INDUSTRIES LIMITED (ADITYA BIRLA GROUP) |
Shalinee Kulshreshtha | General Counsel- South Asia | Dentsu International |
Shardendu Kumar | Chief Legal Officer | Times Innovative Media Limited [A Times Group Company] |
Shobhana Nikam | General Counsel | United Spirits Ltd (Diageo India) |
Shruti Jain | Chief Legal Officer | STERLITE POWER AND TRANSMISSION LTD. |
Shweta Pandey | Vice President Legal & Compliance | Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India |
Sonali Khanna | Vice President & General Counsel | Coca Cola India and South West Asia |
Srikkanth Gopishetty | Executive Director Legal | RP Sanjiv Goenka Group |
Srinit Misra | Executive Director & General Counsel (India); Regional Senior Counsel (Asia) | Ball Corporation |
Sudha Hooda | Executive Director, Legal | NVIDIA |
Sudipta Ghosh | General Counsel | Apraava Energy Private Limited |
Susheel Jad | President and General Counsel | AGP City Gas Pvt Ltd |
Tulika Jesrani | General Counsel | Kimberly-Clark (India) |
Varun Menon | Associate General Counsel - India, MEA & APAC | HMD Mobile India Pvt Ltd. |
Venkateswaran TS | General Counsel and Director - Legal | Nestle India Limited |
Vidhi Jain | Senior Legal Counsel | MedGenome Labs Limited |
Vijay Kamathh | Group General Counsel | Skoda Auto Volkswagen India Private Limited |
Vikash Jain | Global General Counsel, Group President, Member of the Management Committee | ReNew |
Vinay Bhatia | General Counsel | Greenko Group |
Vivek Singh | Manager-Legal | Oil India Limited, Maharatna Company |
Yogesh Wadhwa | General Counsel | Hyundai Motor India Limited |
Zameer Nathani | Group General Counsel | CarDekho Group |
Legacy Holders
Name | Designation | Organisation |
Hall of fame- Manjaree Chowdhary | Sr. Executive Director & General Counsel | Martuti Suzuki |
Abhishek Parsheera | Managing Director and Head – India Legal | Goldman Sachs |
Akanksha Srivastava | Joint President - Legal | UltraTech Cement Limited |
Amar Kumar Sundram | General Counsel – Sr. Vice President (Legal) & Chief Compliance Officer | NEC Corporation India Pvt Ltd. |
Amit Bhasin | Chief Legal Officer | Marico Limited |
Amit Maheshwari | Executive Vice President and General Counsel | ACME Group |
Amitabh Lal Das | General Counsel | Bajaj Auto Limited |
Bhaskar Chandran | Group General Counsel | GMR Group |
Bijoya Roy | General Counsel- South Asia | Pernod Ricard India |
Chetan Chopra | Group General Counsel | TruKKer Group |
Christopher Krishnamoorthy | Group General Counsel | InterGlobe Enterprises |
Damini Bhalla | General Counsel | Zomato |
Damini Marwah | Group Chief Legal Counsel & Chief Ethics Officer | Axis Bank |
Deepak Acharya | Chief Risk Officer, Global Government Relations, Enterprise Cyber Security & General Counsel | Wipro Limited |
Dev Bajpayee | Whole time director, Chief Legal Officer | HUL |
Dr. Akhil Prasad | Group General Counsel, CS & Board Member | Boeing India |
Dr. Mukul Shastry | General Counsel | Cube Highways |
Dr. Sanjeev Gemawat | Group General Counsel | Vedanta Group |
Dr. Vivek Mittal | Global General Counsel | Dr Reddy's Laboratories |
Ghanshyam Hegde | Vice President & General Counsel Indian Subcontinent, Australia and Newzeland | P&G |
Hiranmai Rallabandi | General Counsel & Chief Governance and Compliance Officer | WeWork India Management Private Limited |
Ichika Grover Chawla | VP and Head - Legal and Secretarial | Asia Healthcare Holdings |
Inderpreet Sawhney | Group General Counsel | Infosys Limited |
Jatin Jalundhwala | General Counsel | Adani Group |
Jyoti Pawar | Group General Counsel- Legal and Corporate Affairs | Microsoft |
K Satish Kumar | Group Chief Legal Officer | Intellect Design Arena |
Kaizad Hazari | Group General Counsel | TCG Global |
Kasturi Verma | AVP & Head of Legal | ArcelorMittal Green Energy Pvt Ltd |
Kaushik Mukherjee | President Legal | Indiabulls Housing Finance |
Khozem Mirza | Joint President | Aditya Birla Group |
Kumar Sambasivan | General Counsel | Ayana Renewable Power |
M.N. Nasser Kabir | Group General Counsel | India Today Group |
Madan Mohan K.R. | Director - Legal & Compliance and Member of the Executive Board | Air Liquide Global E&C Solutions India |
Malav Deliwala | Head – Legal | Adani Power Ltd. |
Mayur Vasani | Head of Legal, Southern Asia, Director & CS - India | Kenvue |
Meera Singh | General Counsel | KPMG in India |
Mohit Kapoor | Executive Vice President & Head Legal | SBI Card and Payments |
Monika Dhingra | General Counsel | FORTUM India |
Monika Sachdeva Arora | Head of Legal and Compliance | MAHLE Holding (India) Private Limited |
Mrinal Chandran | General Counsel | India Resurgence Asset Management Business Pvt. ltd |
Ms. Mitali Basu | General Counsel (Vice President Legal – Compliance and Corporate Governance) | Eureka Forbes |
Naveen Raju | General Counsel & Executive VP - Group Legal Services | Mahindra & Mahindra |
Naveen Samant | General Managar - Legal | Elgi Equipments Ltd. |
Nilanjan Sinha | General Counsel | ICICI bank |
Parveen Mahtani | Chief Legal Officer | Mahindra Lifespace Developers Ltd. |
Payal Khanna | Director Legal, Risk Management & Compliance (Cluster India & Sub Continent) | DB Schenker |
Pooja Bedi | Head of Legal & Compliance- India Sub Continent | Philips |
Poornima Sampath | SVP & Chief Legal Officer | Tata Digital |
Prashant Marathe | General Counsel & VP – Legal & Compliance | Sula Vineyards Ltd. |
Pratibha Jain | Group General Counsel and Head Corporate Affairs | Everstone Group |
Praveen Verma | General Manager & Head of the Unit (Legal) | Power Finance Corporation |
Priya Menon | Executive Director & General Counsel | 3M India Limited |
Purna Chandra Choudhury | Director & Associate General Counsel | Emerson Process Management India |
Rajeev Chopra | Director - Legal | Accenture |
Rajeev Mukundan | Head – Compliance (Emerging Markets) (Asia (excl. China and Japan), Africa and Latin America | Mylan Laboratories |
Rajeev Nair | Senior Director – Legal, Associate General Counsel | HP Inc |
Rajendra Misra | Executive Vice President & General Counsel | The Indian Hotels Company Limited (IHCL) |
Rajiv Arora | General Counsel | Indus Towers Limited |
Rakesh Prusti | General Counsel | OYO |
Rambhau Kenkare | President & Group Head- Legal, Secretarial & Admin | Thomas Cook (India) Group |
Ravi Kumar Sabharwal | Group General Counsel | SW Group |
Richa Singh | General Counsel | Global Health Ltd. |
Rohit Dave | General Counsel and Co-Head | SRS Investment Advisors (India) LLP |
Rohit Kumar | General Counsel | Ola Group |
Roop Loomba | Legal Head India, Australia | Akzo Nobel India |
Saguna Vaid | General Counsel | Indigo |
Sameer Chugh | General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer | Play Games24x7 Pvt Ltd |
Sameet Gambhir | VP (Corp. Law) & Company Secretary | DCM Shriram Ltd. |
Samir Oak | General Counsel | Tata Advanced Systems |
Sanjay Nambiar | General Counsel (Legal Risk Management) | YES Bank Limited |
Sanjit Kaur Batra | Group Vice President-Legal and Legal Head-India | Cummins India |
Santosh B Parab | General Counsel- Legal | L&T FINANCE LTD |
Saurabh Mohindru | Chief Legal Officer | Godrej properties |
Shagoofa Rashid Khan | Group General Counsel and Head Corporate Affairs | National Investment and Infrastructure Fund |
Sharad Sharma | Director, Head of Legal Affairs & Company Secretary for Tetra Pak South Asia | Tetra Pak South Asia Region |
Sharayu Jadhav | General Counsel | Razorpay |
Sheela Vadavalli | General Counsel – India & Emerging Markets | Mylan Pharmaceuticals |
Shelly Kohli | Chief Legal & Compliance Officer | United Breweries |
Shikhaa Beri | Regional Counsel, Senior Corporate Counsel – India & SAARC | Autodesk India Private Limtied |
Shilpa Sachdeva Bhullar | Head- Legal, Risk & Compliance | PI Industries |
Shujath Bin Ali | Global General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer | Re Sustainability Limited |
Sonal Basu | General Counsel | Lloyds Technology Centre India |
Sudhir Jha | General Counsel | HDFC Group |
Sujatha Balachander | Regional General Counsel | EY (Ernst & Young) |
Sujeet Jain | Chief Legal & Regulatory Officer | Nykaa |
Sumanta Ghosh | Head - Legal (Vice President) | Interise Investment Managers Limited (investment manager to Interise Trust) |
Sumeet Singh | General Counsel and Head- Corporate Affairs | BharatPe |
Surender Sharma | Whole-time Director - Legal & Company Secretary | Colgate-Palmolive |
Suresh Kumar Sharma | General Counsel, Partner | Deloitte India |
Tanmay Amar | Vice-President, Legal | Omidyar Network India |
Tejal Patil | Global General Counsel & and member of the Wipro Executive Council | Wipro |
Ugen Tashi Bhutia | General Counsel | Hero FinCorp Ltd. |
Vani Mehta | Regional General Counsel South Asia | GE Aerospace |
Vidyut Gulati | General Counsel & Director Legal | Bharti Airtel Group |
Vineet Vij | Global General Counsel | Tech Mahindra Limited |
Zarina Chinoy | General Counsel | Panchshil Realty |
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