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Heritage Indian consumer goods company Godrej Industries (established in 1897) has a legal team that is highly competent, well-motivated and strictly delineated structurally to ensure maximum effectiveness in dealing with its myriad responsibilities, as head of corporate legal Chakradhar Varadarajan explains. ‘The 14-person corporate legal team is organised around business areas, with sub-teams dedicated to IP, business advisory, indirect tax and litigation management’. The team has been in operation for five years now, and has assumed an expanded its role over the past two. ‘The corporate legal team of Godrej Industries Limited and its functional capabilities have a mix of experience and youthful energy’, says Varadarajan, ‘and the team is able to consistently deliver quality in its services, particularly in regards to proactive client interfacing and communication and integrating with the work efforts of the business teams’. As such, the team has had a major role to play in a number of company projects, as Varadarajan goes into: ‘The M&A team of the corporate legal team ensured the smooth closure of two acquisition transactions by Godrej overseas, which included completing the due diligence and ensuring proper documentation throughout’. On top of this, he speaks extremely positively of the team’s attributes both individually and collectively: ‘The corporate legal team of Godrej Industries has an excellent blend of quality and relevantly-experienced professionals and is well-knit in its diversity of experience, but at the same time works in unison to achieve common goals for the company’.