About

Rajeev Nair joined HP in January 2012 as director of legal for India, supporting HP’s business and global delivery centres in India. Rajeev has an experience of over 22 years and prior to joining HP, Nair worked with the legal teams of Unilever, ING and HSBC’s India Insurance joint venture. After HP’s separation in 2015, Nair took the role of associate general counsel India as well as Asia Pacific and Japan in Personal Systems. In his current role he also supports the employment law portfolio for HP Inc. for the Asia Pacific and Japan region. In his career he has gained experience setting up legal and compliance teams from scratch depending on the organisation’s risk profile and legal support requirements, maintaining a healthy balance of in-house and external counsel support along with exposure to multiple industry sectors including fast moving consumer goods, retail, financial services and IT. He also has experience in supporting business units across countries and sub-regions beyond India. Nair has encouraged the teams that he has led to continuously pursue learning, not just on areas of law, but also the nuances of the business that they support. He believes such knowledge forms the foundation of an effective legal team. He identifies that, ‘given the general tendency of legal teams to be pulled into support on a wide range of areas, it is important to define the scope and picking areas of support for the team considering the risk and exposure to the organisation and value to the business. This is particularly relevant for in-house teams in the present day when most organisations are able to afford limited headcount. Being in a position to partner with the business and being business enablers is yet another attribute that I consider is extremely crucial for any in-house legal team’.