About

Saswata Mukherjee has been involved with Unilever since 2002 when he took on a legal manager role with Hindustan Unilever in Kolkata, moving through a number of positions in the intervening years, most recently prior to his current role being a global legal operations director role based in London between 2013 and 2016. Now general counsel for Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos and M&A general counsel for Southeast Asia and Australasia, Mukherjee recalls his work on the 2017 joint venture between Unilever and EAC in the ‘newly opened-up and challenging environment of Myanmar’, as among the most interesting projects he has worked on in recent years, alongside his role in the €2.3bn acquisition of Korean skin care brand Carver Korea in the same year. On his time with Unilever, Mukherjee says, ‘In the past 16 years I have worked in over eight roles from supporting factories, procurement, supply chain, sales functions to global projects including competition law, M&A and data protection. Every moment of this experience has been truly enriching and I have learnt both professionally and personally’.