About

Shahana Basu is an experienced corporate lawyer with extensive global experience advising and managing legal and business issues across a full breadth of operations of multinational companies. Between 1998 and 2012 she worked for high profile law firms in the US such as Sullivan & Cromwell, Jones Day, WilmerHale and Edwards Wildman Palmer as well as three years at magic circle firm Linklaters in the UK. Basu made her in-house debut in 2012 as chief legal officer at Apollo Tyres, one of India’s largest tyre manufacturers. Based in Gurgaon, she was responsible for all legal functions, including all corporate, litigation and intellectual property matters across multiple jurisdictions. Due to her considerable skill in operational management and handling complex transactions, such as joint ventures and M&A, which she acquired previously in her career, Basu was headhunted by Amira Nature Foods, a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange and global provider of branded Indian food goods. In the role of global general counsel she provided strategic advice to the chief executive, board and senior management of the company in addition to working with its business heads in India, UAE, Germany, UK and US. Since February 2016, Basu has been at Max India, a company focused on healthcare and part of the Max Group which is worth $2bn. As its legal and regulatory affairs director, she is able to, in her words, ‘leverage decades of international experience across the entire spectrum of the legal practice to guide businesses to operate with ethics and integrity within the parameters of law and regulation’. She is currently working on the amalgamation of the company’s subsidiaries, Max Life Insurance Company and Max Financial Services, as well as the demerger and transfer of its insurance business to HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company.