Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co
Leveraging the firm’s broader strength across other practice areas, the dedicated Delhi-based labour and employment team at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co has notable strength in benefits, industrial relations, workforce management, and transactional mandates. Practice head Pooja Ramchandani takes point on corporate restructurings and M&A-related employment issues; she is assisted by senior associate Suryansh Gupta. Kriti Kaushik was promoted to partner in September 2022 and has particular strength advising on compensation, benefits, and executive engagement matters, whilst Suruchi Kumar is the key contact for industrial relations, investigations, and issues pertaining to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
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Key clients
- JK Paper Limited
- New Era Technology, Inc.
- Singapore Airlines Limited
- Varel Oil and Gas Inc.
- Reliance Retail Ventures Limited
- Sagen MI Canada Inc.
Work highlights
- Advised Singapore Airlines (SIA) in the consolidation by TATA Sons Private Limited and SIA of the businesses of Air India Limited, and TATA SIA Airlines Limited (Vistara), resulting into merger of Vistara into Air India.
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Ms. Kriti Kaushik advises multinationals on employment law related issues across sectors and specializes in issues pertaining to entry and exit strategies, employment policies and disciplinary guidelines, employment structures, employee benefits, contract labour, and engagement and compensation structures of senior management.Kriti has been recognised as the ‘Rising Star’ for Employment Law practice by The Legal 500, 2021. At the Firm, Kriti has been involved in employment related advisory on issues relating to employee movements on account of corporate restructurings, workforce restructurings, managing industrial relations, employee policies, engagement of C-suite employees, exit strategies involving business run-offs and closure of manufacturing/commercial units and business run-offs, etc., outsourcing and contract labour arrangements, industrial disputes, trade union settlements, remuneration and severance of higher management, ESOPs, transactional advisory on employee integration and harmonization, social security benefits, POSH, disciplinary issues and employee-related investigations, amongst others.
Practice head
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Pooja Ramchandani