Pallavi Shroff

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Paytm appoints Pallavi Shroff as board member to boost legal firepower

Benglauru: The move by payments firm Paytm to appoint veteran lawyer Pallavi Shroff as a board member is an indicator that

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas managing partner Pallavi Shroff is set to join India's largest e-payments brand Paytm as a director, reported Business World.

“He would have found it challenging,” says Pallavi Shroff, Delhi managing partner at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM), about how Mumbai managing partner Akshay Chudasama, hired from the very different J. Sagar Associates (JSA), would have fit into the legacy firm had he joined before the break-up.

Uber Technologies general counsel (GC) Salle Yoo and Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas regional managing partner Pallavi Shroff reflected on their journey as women in the legal profession, at NLU Delhi on Thursday. NLUD was hosting a Townhall question and answer (Q&A) session titled UberDIALOGUES, on the launch of its annual three-day cultural fest Kairos.

India Today Group’s Business Today magazine has chosen Madhurima Mukherjee, who left Luthra & Luthra last week, and Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi partner Pallavi Shroff, as two of India’s 25 “most powerful women in business”.

AZB & Partners Mumbai-based co-founder Zia Mody has won the award several times since 2004 and is now inducted into the magazine’s so-called hall of fame, and therefore ineligible for any future awards.

Yesterday’s ceremony is understood to have also been attended by Luthra & Luthra managing partner Rajiv Luthra, and Bharti Shroff, Amarchand partner and mother-in-law of Pallavi Shroff.

[via Business Today: Mukherjee ‘capital gains’ profile & picture (warning, contains geese); Pallavi Shroff ‘queen of the court’ profile]

"Law was often looked at as a marriage degree - three years in law, then you get married," recalls AZB founding partner Zia Mody about women's views of a legal career 30 years ago. Since then law firms have gradually fought the profession's gender bias, arguably more successfully in India than abroad. But there is still a long way to go.

Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi has hired a non-Indian qualified competition law specialist as a director in its competition law practice, reports The Lawyer magazine.