The Legal 500 GC Summit India brings together in-house legal leaders for a focused peer-led examination of the forces reshaping the GC role across India’s rapidly evolving regulatory and business landscape.

Indian GCs are moving beyond traditional compliance functions to operate as strategic business partners – balancing rapid regulatory change, geopolitical complexity, AI-driven transformation, and heightened enforcement risk, while acting as trusted business partners to leadership.

In practice, this shift is playing out against this backdrop of unprecedented regulatory density and scrutiny. Major labour law reform, the rollout of new data protection and digital regimes, evolving securities and valuation rules, and an increasingly assertive enforcement landscape are placing legal leaders at the centre of workforce strategy, governance, investigations and incident response. At the same time, geopolitical volatility, trade disruption and supply-chain exposure are introducing new layers of risk and opportunity, while AI is reshaping both the legal function itself and expectations of how in-house teams deliver value. The summit will examine how Indian GCs are managing these compounding pressures in practice – moving faster with regulation, leading investigations and disputes, engaging regulators, building resilient operating models, and developing legal teams capable of operating with greater agility and commercial insight enabled by technology.

Trough candid peer-led conversations, the summit will equip Indian GCs with the perspectives and practical strategies needed to operate with greater agility, influence, and impact.