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Welcome to the ALB Mumbai In-House Legal Summit 2023 

    DATE              23 March 2023, Thursday

    TIME               9:45 am Registration
                                 10:20 am to 5:00 pm, India Time  (GMT +5:30)

                                    5:00 pm onwards - Post Event Cocktail

      VENUE         Four Seasons Hotel, Mumbai India
                                 [ FACE TO FACE /LIVE EVENT] 

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SUMMIT CHAIRPERSON

Frank Fernandes, Legal Director, DHL Express & Logistics – India

Frank J. Fernandes is an accomplished in-house lawyer serving as Legal Director in the Global Business Services (GBS) division of the Deutsche Post DHL Group which is the world's leading logistics company with diverse divisions like Express, Global Forwarding, Freight & Supply Chain, eCommerce Solutions, Post & Parcel Germany that connect people and markets and drive global trade. 

He comes with a rich experience of over two decades as an in-house lawyer and has in-depth understanding of global legal function of a Logistics & Express industry advising on various areas of law covering Real Estate, Criminal, Competition, Customs, Environmental Law, IT Law, Aviation & Transport laws. In a complex and multi-jurisdictional industry, he has been widely successful to minimize (legal) business risks by effectively and efficiently managing to bring together specialized experts and resources involving diverse topics like Compliance, Data Protection, Global Trade Law, etc.

Frank is based in Mumbai.  He is a member of the Global Legal Practice Group for the Express, Parcel and e-Com Delivery businesses, and also, active on many forums and part of regular industry workshops.

Frank won the Deutsche Post DHL Group Legal General Counsel Award 2021 under the category “Legal Knowledge Facilitation” for the initiative and successfully implementing the “Legal Academy Virtualization” with his specialized & significant professional experience in in the global legal function. 

SPEAKERS & PANELISTS

Vandana Pai, Partner and Head – Investment Funds Practice, Bharucha & Partners

Vandana leads the Firm’s Investment Funds Practice and advises on complex private equity investments, which include structuring and negotiating investments and exits across sectors including real estate, infrastructure, hospitality, and technology for leading fund houses and financial institutions.

Her mergers and acquisitions experience includes structuring and advising on joint ventures, foreign investment by non-resident investors, overseas investment by Indian companies, court-based restructuring, business and asset transfers, takeovers, and preferential allotments by listed companies.

Anisha Chand, Partner, Khaitan & Co

Anisha advises domestic and multinational companies on a full spectrum of competition matters, including cartel enforcement, abuse of dominance, merger control, leniency, dawn raids and competition audit / compliance. Her cross-sectoral experience includes both traditional sectors such as cement, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, etc. and new age markets such as e-commerce, radio taxis, digital media, online aggregators, etc.

Anisha holds extensive merger control experience through involvement in complex and challenging M&A deals. She was involved in the first phase II investigation in India in Sun Pharma/Ranbaxy. Other recent and significant matters include Suez/Veolia, Pfizer, Inc./ GlaxoSmithKline plc., Reliance Retail Ventures / Future Group, Brookfield Asset Management / RMZ Corp, Nippon Express/Future Supply Chain Solutions, Advent International/Aditya Birla Capital, Nippon Life Insurance / Reliance Nippon, Sony Pictures/Ten Sports, SoftBank/Flipkart, Zydus Wellness/Kraft Heinz, etc. Anisha has also advised clients in some watershed enforcement cases in India including the cement cartel case, lentils cartel, tyre cartel case, the auto-parts and online travel agency (dominance) cases.

Cori Lable, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Cori Lable leads Kirkland & Ellis’ Government & Internal Investigations group in Hong Kong. She concentrates her practice on advising multinational clients including private equity firms, alternative investors, and strategics throughout Asia on international risks related to cross-border investments and operations, including corruption, money laundering, economic sanctions, and financial fraud, and defends clients facing regulatory investigations in these areas.  Cori has been named as a leading anti-corruption practitioner for China and India by Legal 500 Asia-Pacific, Chambers Greater China, Chambers Asia-Pacific, Chambers Global, and India Business Law Journal.

L. Badri Narayanan, Executive Partner, Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan

L. Badri Narayanan is an Executive Partner at the firm and practices in the areas of corporate, investment and tax laws. He advises companies on mergers and acquisitions, investments, business transfer agreements (slump sales), joint ventures and share acquisitions, and has been involved in both domestic and cross-border transactions. He has advised and assisted various leading Indian and multinational corporations with transactions pertaining to joint ventures, investments, acquisitions and restructurings.

Badri has been acknowledged as one of the top ‘Super 50 lawyers of India’ by Asian Legal Business and was also awarded by Legal Era as one of the ‘Distinguished Legal Minds of India’. He is admitted to practice in India and New York.