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One of the most significant achievements in Anuraag Malhotra’s career since joining the Dubai headquartered multinational conglomerate Landmark Group in 2004 has been establishing a well organised legal department; the team has grown from a one-person function to a ‘highly efficient and business focused team of professionals’. Malhotra has also ‘conceptualised, designed and created a corporate and tax structure for the Landmark Group from scratch,’ he explains. As the group is among the largest retailers in the Middle East and India, Malhotra’s achievement in designing a highly efficient structure that handles legal issues in over twelve countries has been hugely impressive. A highly rated tax legal professional with an eye for organisational improvements, Malhotra has received wide praise for developing an efficient transfer pricing tax mechanism for Landmark Group, fine tuning the structure to meet OECD BEPS challenges. Formerly legal counsel and company secretary at GE, Malhotra cherishes his participation in his first M&A transaction, a deal within a complex, industrial environment, that created ‘an excellent foundation’ for Malhotra to ‘lead complex deals both as a strategic advisor and a deal lawyer’. Initially starting his professional career as an accountant at Unilever, Malhotra has since not only been able to seamlessly adapt to a corporate legal environment, but also to establish a stellar reputation for being one of the brightest and most reliable in-house legal professionals. When asked to share tips with other in-house lawyers, Malhotra says: ‘I believe in-house lawyers should strive to expand the scope of their contribution to the business. This is particularly important considering the immense contribution they could potentially make to their business, due to their extensive business knowledge and experience, which has sadly been unexploited due to our own inhibitions.’