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Focus on: The career of Pulin Kumar

Pulin Kumar has an extensive exposure of handling high stake cases in various High Courts and the Supreme Court. He has had an illustrious tenure as an in-house counsel dealing with commercial matters and other matters. He has extensively worked on the issues related to the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties (MLAT) and Extradition Treaties with various countries and interacted with legal counsel located across the globe. Mr. Kumar, during his tenure with various organisations, has also been involved in the execution of the foreign contracts and high-stake international commercial arbitration. Mr. Kumar is actively involved with various regulatory groups of business houses.

Mr. Kumar is currently working as a senior legal director of adidas India. He looks after the legal and compliance functions of adidas India and Reebok India. The mandate includes contract, compliance, and litigation management, alternate dispute resolution, and a compliant business development.

Mr. Kumar is a commerce graduate from Patna University and graduated in law from Campus Law Centre, University of Delhi in the year 1991, followed by Master of Law from Symbiosis International in 2020 besides a PG Diploma in IR&PM from Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, New Delhi.

His professional journey started as an in-house counsel for Indian and MNC conglomerates such as Montari Industries, Triveni Engineering, Ambuja Cements, New Holland Tractors, Jubilant Organosys, and Samsung India.

Mr. Kumar has been a part of many significant best practices and improvements in the internal governance related to the corporate sector and has immensely contributed to this area. He has been actively participating in legal conferences both as listener and speaker. Mr. Kumar also co-hosts a knowledge sharing platform “Sadgamaya,” an informal association which was founded by a few likeminded general counsel and lawyers. He is well connected to more than thousand in-house counsel and lawyers in India and abroad through this forum meant for exchange of legal related knowledge.

During his tenure he has coordinated with many state holders and handled multiple investigations and enquiries by different authorities together with multiple litigations pending in the courts.

The most significant achievement has been in laying the foundation stone of an important menace in India: parallel imports. During his tenure as the legal head for Samsung India, he initiated a legal case fighting against the menace of parallel imports which today is pending in the Supreme Court.

The need of the hour is to have a complete harmony between the industries and the various regulations. Legal teams of the industries and the government should work in partnership to give a complete boost to the economic development of the nation.

Mr. Kumar has been conferred with many awards and recognised by various forums for his exemplary work during his tenure as in-house counsel in last 30 years.