About

Rajeev Chopra spent 10 years as a litigator in a corporate commercial practice before moving in-house in 2003. He represented many multinational corporations on various legal issues and transactions during this period, ranging from advisory, litigation and arbitration, project finance, major infrastructure projects and foreign direct investments. Since moving in-house, he has held head of legal positions at large technology companies such as LG Electronics, Bharti Airtel and Dell before joining global information technology and services company Accenture in 2007. In his current role as managing director – legal, Chopra is in charge of legal matters across India, Philippines, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. As the company’s operations have expanded by over four times since his arrival, Chopra’s efforts and guidance has ensured the legal team has attained high visibility within the business and are heavily involved in its development plans. Having previous experience of building top class legal teams at Bharti Airtel and for Accenture’s Asia Pacific employment law matters, Chopra was able to hire and develop an exceptional team that currently comprises of over 60 employees, including 22 lawyers. To further facilitate Accenture’s growth ambitions Chopra setup best practices on how to provide quality legal support to Accenture’s delivery centres in addition to setting up local compliance teams to establish processes and a methodology for accurate monitoring. Demonstrating his formidable pedigree as a trusted advisor and pragmatic business partner, Chopra holds a global role as senior director for legal support to Accenture’s Global Delivery centres. In addition he sits on the company’s leadership team, which make decisions on the India geographic unit, and serves the on board of directors for Accenture’s entities in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Chopra says his journey into ‘the fabric of organisation and becoming a trusted advisor, required consistency, pragmatism, a business mind-set and ability to craft solutions that clearly articulate risks and provide mitigation strategies’.