BW Legal World Announces Top 100+ General Counsel For 2023

The fourth edition of the Top 100+ GCs is an initiative to recognise and reward the prolific General Counsel who have made a mark for themselves in the profession

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: -

NameDesignationCompany
Mr. Dhanendra KumarChairpersonCompetition Advisory Services (India) LLP
Ms. Shukla WassanIndependent DirectorGE
Mr. CV RaghuFormer Group General CounselSamvardhana Motherson Group
Mr. Hemant KumarGroup General CounselL&T
Ms. Manjaree ChowdharySenior Executive Director & GCMaruti Suzuki India
Mr. Pankaj VasaniGroup CFO, Cube Highways InvITBoard Member, Cube Highways
Mr. Pulin KumarEx- Sr. Legal DirectorAdidas India
Dr Subir Bikas MitraAdvisor (Law), DGH/Sr Advisor, HCSC, MoPNG and Adjunct Professor, IIMs 
Mr Manish LambaGeneral CounselDLF Cyber City Developers
Sameet GambhirVP (Corp. Law) & Company SecretaryDCM Shriram Ltd.
Krishnava DuttManaging PartnerArgus 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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