in-house moves

Mumbai-based India legal head of payments provider Ingenico Group, Tushar Tarun, is joining online payments start-up Razorpay as its director legal.

The former AZB & Partners transaction support group (TSG) head and partner Ami Parikh has joined global credit check and financial analytics agency Experian India on 11 February as its head of legal and compliance, according to her Linked-in profile.

National head of banking and finance and partner at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, Sapan Gupta, is set to join Indo-French multinational steel ArcelorMittal in a senior regional general counsel (GC)-like role in Mumbai, according to two sources with knowledge of his move.

Former Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai partner Vedant Shukla has joined Ultratech Cement as general manager (GM) legal for global M&A.

General counsel (GC) of InterGlobe Aviation-operated airline IndiGo, Priya Mehra, has resigned and is set to leave the airline by early 2020, according to authoritative market sources.

Karthik Mahalingam, who in 2018 had left partnership at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) in Bangalore for a one-year MBA at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has returned to India to head up Walmart-owned online shop Flipkart as head of corporate governance, according to Linked-in.

Former group general counsel (GC) of resources giant Vedanta Limited, Nitin Banerjee, has joined the Ola group, which is fast becoming a technology conglomerate, as its group GC.

Vedanta Delhi-based general counsel (GC) of its iron ore, steel and power verticals Jasmeet Wadehra has joined Visa in Mumbai as vice president legal for India and South Asia in July of this year.

Remfy & Sagar managing associate Samridh Bhardwaj has joined OakNorth Analytical Intelligence as senior vice president legal and transactional based in Gurgaon.

Bharti Airtel director legal Sameer Chugh has been promoted to group general counsel at the Bharti Group, as first reported by Legal Era.

Vedanta Limited group general counsel (GC) Nitin Banerjee has resigned from the company last week, we understand from authoritative sources.

Google in-houser Sheetal Sawhney Kapur has joined Netflix’s rapidly growing in-house team in India as senior counsel and director legal.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi-based partner Sourav Kanti De Biswas has joined gazillion-dollar-valued hotel chain Oyo as vice president legal last month.

Nike India director legal Priya Menon has joined US-headquartered co-working behemoth WeWork as its India general counsel (GC).

E-commerce player Snapdeal has expanded its in-house legal team by 50% to nine members, after hiring three in recent months, with its in-house team closing a fundraising round from Piramal Group executive director Anand Piramal without external legal advisers.