Dev Bajpai, Complia-nce Officer,Executive Director - Legal &Co4lorateAffairs and Company Secretary,Hindustan Unilever Limited, won theGeneral Counsel of the Year - MaleAward.

"I uill fail in my duty if I don'tacknowledge the institutions I haueuorked with in the z6 years of mycereer. I had an opportunity to jointhe Indian Police Seruice but I Ieftthat and don't regret it at aII," Bajpaisaid while accepting the Award.

While Shukla Wassan. ErecutiveDirector - Legal & Company Secretary,Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages wonthe General Counsel of the Year -Female.

Picking up the Lifetime AchievementAward for Senior Counsel, IqbalChagla, Senior Advocate, BombayHigh Court, spoke about his father:"Hauing spent half a century inthis profession, this Awqrd is arecognition of that. This euening, Iremember my father and hout hisshoes uere so large that they neuerreally fit anAone. But I think I triedin some waA to liue by the principlesand values that he imbibed. Thisrecognition means that I have notfailed him completely."

M R Prasanna. Former GeneralCounsel, Aditya Birla Group, wonthe Lifetime Achievement Awardfor In-House; while Talat Ansari,Partner, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP,took home the Lifetime AchievementAward for Law Firm Partner.

The Tata Group bagged the BestIn-House Legal Team of the Year;while Satya Hegde, Senior VicePresident & General Counsel of TataConsultancy Services won the GlobalGeneral Counsel ofthe Year.

A S Kumar, General Counsel, Dr.Reddy's Laboratories took home theCorporate Personality of the YearAward for Outstanding Contribution& Excellence; whereas, AnandDesai, Managing Partner, DSKLegal, won the Managing Partnbrof the Year; Tata Consultancy

Services took home the Best In-House Global Legal Team ofthe Year;while Khaitan & Co bagged the BestIndian Law Firm of the Year (Overall)and S.K. Singhi & Co walked awaywith the Best Up & Rising Indian LawFirm of the Year with z to 3 years ofpractice."I am overwhelmed, yet veryhumble," said Namita Chadha,Founder and Managing Partner,Chadha & Co. as she won the WomanLawyer of the Year. "I would liketo thqnk LegalEra and the Juryfor placing confidence in me andmy firm. This Autard enables me toouercome the challenges a womenlauyer faces in her journey."

Zia Mody, Managing Partner,AZB &. Partners, picked up the BestCorporate Lawyer of the Year andAZB & Partners won the Best LawFirm of the Year - Mumbai. 'As youget older, you realise that you arenot the only recipient of this Ataard.Its 2So young lawyers burning themidnight oil euery day apd makingthis happen. Thank y ou," she said.

Intellectual Property Lawyer of theYear was won by Pravin Anand,Managing Partner, Anand & Anand;Ramesh K. Vaidyanathan,Founder and Managing Partner,Advaya Legal, bagged the YoungAchievers' Award of the Year in theFirm Category (4o Years & Below);Dr. Vivek Mittal, Head - Legal,Lupin Limited picked up the YoungAchiever In-House Category;

DlAPiperwon the Best InternationalLaw Firm of the Year; while BhartiAirtel Limited took away the BestTelecommunication In-House LegalTeam of the Year; Life InsuranceCorporation of India (LIC) wonthe Best Insurance In-House LegalTeam ofthe Year; AZB & Partnerswon the Best Corporate Law Firm ofthe Year; Best Intellectual PropertyLaw Firm of the Year was awarded toAnand & Anand; DSK Legal tookaway the Best Merger & AcquisitionLaw Firm of the Year; Best DisputeResolution Law Firm of the Year wentto Bharucha & Partners, whileBest Litigation Law Firm of the Yearwas awarded to Karanjawala & Co.

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Namita ChadhaFounder and ManagingPartner, Chadha & Co.

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Namita is the Founder Partnerof Chadha & Co. She is a lawT'erwith over 21 years of exPerience incorporate and commercial laws.Namita began her professionalcareer in 1993 in the Supreme Courtof India, where she worked ondiverse areas of civil and contractuallaws with an emphasis on issues ofconstitutional and environmentallaws and public interest litigation.Thereafter, she served as a counselto the Indian subsidiary of BHP,a leading Fortune 5oo Australianmultinational, where she advisedits joint venture with Kinhill(later acquired by Halliburton) oncontract negotiations with ParadipPort Trust for an ADB funded coalmechanisation project of USD zoomillion and a World Bank fundedproject for Tamil Nadu highwaYs(+8o km.) and also on matters in thereal estate arena.

A S KumarGeneral Counsel,Dr. Reddy's Laboratories

With more than z8 years ofexperience, Andrew A.D.S. Kumaris a global transactional attorneyhaving led international transactionsof over $r2.5 Billion in aggregate

value, including the much rePortedEsmark deal in the US. He currentlYis the Global General Counsel oftheNYSE listed and one of the world'slargest generic API manufacturer Dr'Reddy's Laboratories, suPervising

35US, German, Russian, EuroPeanand Indian attorneys. KeePingin with that spirit, in zor3 hecontributed $22.5 million Profitfrom a New Jersey court proceeding.

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major, BTWentures (Boston basedzoo6 E&Y@US entrePreneur ofthe year award winning privateequity fund,) Glaxosmithkline,Unileverand the Al-Tamimi lawoffice. Kumar litigated one of thethree successful instances of movingthe India Supreme Court at the ChiefJustice's residence, in the SamsungCup matter and in zooo won a $4rmillion IT related ICC arbitration.On intellectual property rights, headvised the UAE government onimplementation and management oftheir new patents, trademarks andcopy'rights regime and addressedthe celebrated Fordham UniversityGlobal Conference on IPR Law andPolicy at New York.

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