About

Navodit Mehra is an in-house lawyer with over 20 years of experience in various industries. He has held coveted positions such as vice president legal, head of legal and compliance and general counsel at a number of companies. He was head of legal at start-up company Air Deccan between 2004 and 2007, and vice president of legal at Indian multinational company Havells between 2010 and 2013. He is now at Samsung, the multinational leading technology brand, in the role of general manager for legal and compliance in the South West Asia (SWA) region. Over the course of his career, Mehra has been a strong litigator having been awarded three international arbitrations and handling bulk consumer litigation across India and the SWA region. One former colleague describes how he found Mehra ‘a man of detail and great perseverance who would follow matters to a conclusive end’, adding, ‘he is sharp and quick on the uptake of matters, an excellent business advisor and confidant who can be relied upon‘. Another feature of his tenure has been dealing ‘extensively with regulatory agencies in the Labour Department and other controlling agencies of the Indian Government and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries’, according to Mehra.