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Already present across five continents, employing over 20,000 individuals, with 41 manufacturing facilities and 21 service delivery locations, the CK Birla Group is a growing US$1.8bn Indian conglomerate. Overseeing legal affairs at the Group is Madhav Rao Uppulur, an extremely well respected lawyer in his field. Despite being at CK Birla for some time now, a previous colleague was keen to highlight Rao’s credentials during the research process having the following to say about him: ‘Madhav [had] been a colleague with me at GE… he was my colleague in GMR and GE. He is an outstanding lawyer, commercially focused, a true business partner and is valued for his work and his leadership’. Rao is recognised for assisting his employers on the partnership between Birlasoft, a digital business IT services company owned by the CK Birla Group, and KPIT Technologies, which focuses on IT consulting and product engineering. This April 2018 deal was lauded in industry press for its novel and complex nature.