Flipkart group general counsel (GC) Rajinder Sharma has left the company after less than a year there, reported the Economic Times.

He told the paper that his next move was a "work in progress" that would not be finalised until next week, adding: "The going has been good and Flipkart legal team won an international award as second best in Asia Pacific, adjudged by a jury of Global GCS "

Sharma had joined Flipkart from Samsung in September 2015, as first reported by us and Mint.

He was previously director and general counsel for the South and West Asia regional headquarters of Samsung, in Gurgaon, after three years at EI DuPont India Pvt Ltd as its director and general counsel South Asia between August 2011 and August 2014.

Between 2006 and 2011 he was also group general counsel at the Reliance ADAG Group, Emaar MGF India and the JSW Group, and between and November 2006 he had worked in the legal departments of Tata Steel, Bharti Airtel and The Coca-Cola Company.