About

After graduating in 1974, Ashok Barimar’s professional career began in Bangalore as an advocate. After spells as a deputy personnel officer, law officer and assistant manager (legal and personnel) at various companies between 1978 and 1982, Barimar took his first head of legal job at Grasim Industries. He spent almost seven years at Grasim, a building materials manufacturing company, which is owned by the Aditya Birla group. Having gained recognition for his skills in corporate governance and contract negotiations there, Barimar was hired by the Hinduja Group in 1989 as its general manager for legal where he spent seven years. He also had a two year spell at Satyam Computers (now Tech Mahindra), before being appointed to his current position of senior vice president of legal and general counsel at Jet Airways in 1999. After 17 years in the role, Barimar is one of the most highly respected general counsel in India, and he is a leading expert in supporting corporate and joint venture deals. After dealing with recent changes to airline ownership rules in 2015, he facilitated Etihad Airways’ investment into Jet Airways in 2016, and is currently playing a pivotal role in forming an extensive transatlantic venture with Air France-KLM and US carrier Delta Air Lines.