About

Amar Kumar Sundram has gained more than 20 years of experience working in Indian corporations. Since 1994, he has held head of legal positions at companies including Idea Cellular, Reliance Communications, Citibank India and BPTP, one of the fastest growing real estate companies in India. In the 18 year period he was at those companies, Sundram handled high stake international arbitrations as well as domestic arbitrations that involved critical questions of law. He also structured large securitisation deals of more than ₹1,200 crores with four leading banks and non-banking financial companies. Since September 2012, Sundram has been serving EY, the multinational professional services firm, in the capacity of national director of legal. Based in Gurgaon, and essentially acting as the company’s general counsel in India, Sundram draws on his past exposure to a wide range of in-house legal issues to facilitate the company’s growth plans in India. He believes that his ‘strength lies in [his] interface with government and regulatory bodies, and their involvement in legal and operational issues’. He has also published a number of articles in leading law journals, represented EY at industry forums and was a founding member of the Indian Corporate Counsel Association.