About

Following a highly successful private practice career Vidyut Gulati joined Cairn as the general counsel and a member of its executive committee. She joined her current employers, Bharti, in July 2017, at the group level as director of legal. In terms of the legal function at the group level, she focuses her time on strategic transactions and decisions of the Group, with a special emphasis on M&A transactions across our various businesses, including in Africa. Gulati’s approach to leadership within her legal team is to be in constant proximity to business realities and risks looking beyond the legal issues and acting as a business partner and as a stakeholder by driving critical business decisions. Working on some very high-stake, marque matters both on the corporate and the litigation side, have provided her with tremendous perspective influencing her manner and style of leadership. She links these factors as being intrinsic to an in-house role. Gulati identifies that, ‘the Indian telecom sector is witnessing a phenomenal phase, where equations are being re-set very quickly. Any upheaval brings tremendous scope for expansion and consolidation. I have been closely involved with and have led several business critical decisions and consolidation transactions in the telecom and tower sectors, both domestically and cross-border’.