About

Rakesh Chandra Sinha joined Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, a major Indian multinational pharmaceutical company, in March 2016 to head its legal and compliance functions in the capacity of associate vice president – legal and compliance. He is recognised for managing his legal department of over 20 lawyers across multiple jurisdictions by implementing the concept of legal business partnering to empower them within the business as well as implementing an extensive use of technology to create greater efficiencies in the legal team. Sinha says these changes have positively impacted the approach of business teams towards the legal functions, adding, ‘there were multiple tiers of appreciation by the business in last two years, positive reports from business about legal in monthly management reviews [and] our turnaround time reduced drastically by approximately 40%’. Sinha is also commended for working on a number of important company projects recently such as India’s first international arbitration referred by the Supreme Court to Bombay International Arbitration Centre, high value and high risk drug price control litigations with the Indian government, commercial disputes in several countries (including Malaysia, Singapore, Turkey, Hong Kong and China among others) as well as various high value acquisitions in Russia, Japan and the US.