About

Bhushan Gokhale has headed legal teams in India since 1997. His first seven and a half years were spent at KPIT Cummins Infosystems, a global IT consulting and product engineering company, where he set up the legal and commercial contract management, risk management and statutory compliances structure. He also handled its initial public offering and negotiated and drafted the contracts for its international and domestic mergers, acquisitions, business contracts, strategic alliances and escrow arrangements. After spells at Organon (India) and Tata BlueScope Steel, Gokhale moved to Volkswagen India. As the global automobile maker’s first head of legal and company secretary in India, Gokhale handled a number of important issues in a short space of time. Using previous experience of department building, he was able to initiate the legal and company secretarial departments and create its legal policies, processes, statutory compliance guidelines and a corporate governance framework. Since 2013, he has served as chief counsel (India) for Eaton Technologies, a multinational power management company with global sales of $21bn in 2015. In this new role he is part of the leadership team and heads the legal, company secretarial and compliance functions for 11 of the Eaton entities in India, with the help of a team of 15 lawyers and company secretaries. By heading the legal shared services function for Eaton’s Europe, Middle East, Africa, US, and Asia Pacific regions, Gokhale is present and plays a significant role at all related board, shareholder and corporate governance meetings.