Pingal Khan
Ashlar LawThe ‘very diligent and thorough’ team at Ashlar Law acts for multinational pharma companies; banks and financial institutions; and government companies, handling the full spread of labour and employment mandates. Head of the practice and founding partner Pingal Khan splits his time between the firm’s Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Delhi offices, and handles the full range of employment matters, with particular strength in transactional and corporate employment issues-related mandates. Senior associate Roshan Jacob is recommended for labour disputes and gig economy contracts work.
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- 'Very supportive team willing to provide timely help and counsel.'
- 'The team is led by Pingal and has a vast experience in labour and employment issues and has been advising us for last 6 years. We always reach out to Roshan Jacob for labour law disputes.'
- 'Ashlar Law, with its solution-oriented approach, offers a unique blend of industry-specific, curated, end-to-end corporate advisory and litigation support services to clients across various sectors.'
- 'The extremely talented founding partner of Ashlar Law, Pingal Khan, brings with him not only a vast awareness of top industry practices but also academically focused, out-of-the-box and accessible legal solutions to clients.'
- 'The Ashlar Law team's knowledge of labour laws comes particularly handy considering our sector is a manpower-intensive sector. Their team's ability to provide specific solutions to specific problems in a creative way has always been fantastic.'
- 'Very diligent and thorough.'
- 'Strong understanding of the complex labour law sector.'
- 'Partners are really accessible and knowledgeable when it comes to answering our questions and reducing the danger of lawsuits. In times of crisis, team readiness and support are paramount and we have always received the same.'
Key clients
- Workex Solution & Services Pvt Ltd
- Gigforce Private Limited
- Willis Towers Watson
- Hindustan Unilever
- North Shore Technologies Pvt Ltd
- Firecompass Technologies Pvt Ltd
- Unipe. Inc
- T-Systems ICT India Pvt Ltd
- Ocwen Financial Solutions Pvt Ltd
- Sila Group
- Infinyte Club Pvt Ltd
- Jupiter Electric Mobility Pvt Ltd
Work highlights
- Advised an education tech company with foreign holding structure in achieving compliance with ESOPs and RSUs to be issued to their founding team many of whom were not continuing as employees of the Company or were simply attached to the same as consultants.
- Advised Infinyte Club in structuring its platform for providing access and liquidity to ESOP holders of private enterprises by accessing the retail investor market.
- Advised Firecompass Technologies Pvt Ltd and Firecompass Technologies Inc in structuring their global ESOPs and inducting founder and KMP holding at the India level into the US Co cap table through use of ESOPs.
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Pingal Khan