Ms Debjani Aich > Kochhar & Co. > Bengaluru, India > Lawyer Profile

Kochhar & Co.
# 201, Prestige Sigma,
3, Vittal Mallya Road
BANGALORE
560001
India

Work Department

  • Labour & Employment
  • Aerospace & Defence

Position

Partner

Career

Debjani’s Employment Law practice includes representing and advising multinational corporations in relation to their work-force related operations in India, both from a federal and state-level employment and labour law perspective.

She is actively involved in employment-related documentation (including employment contracts, NDAs, secondment contracts and employment/HR policies), compensation structuring, compliance issues/audits, employee transfer and integration issues, immigration matters and employment-related negotiations. She has considerable experience in handling employee terminations, including large-scale contentious RIFs and also serves as the external counsel/observer in termination discussions. She also represents clients before the labour authorities on employment litigation matters.

Debjani has a special interest in laws dealing with prevention of sexual harassment (POSH) in the workplace and EEO matters, having also undergone international certified training in this area. She regularly advises on Indian anti-sexual harassment laws and also serves as the external member of the anti-sexual harassment committees of several clients, with considerable experience in resolving complaints relating to sexual harassment/workplace harassment.

Further, she regularly conducts workplace training on employment laws, including in relation to POSH and discrimination, at a senior management and general employee level. She is a frequent speaker on employment issues at national and international conferences and events.

Languages

  • English
  • Bengali
  • Hindi

Memberships

  • Bar Council of Delhi, 2002

 

Education

  • LL.B., University of Delhi
  • B.A., (Honours) in Zoology, University of Delhi
  • Commercial Mediation training – JAMS Foundation, 2015

Lawyer Rankings

India > Labour and employment

(Leading individuals)

Debjani AichKochhar & Co.

With a large team and significant geographic spread, Kochhar & Co.‘s dedicated labour and employment team handles a robust mix of advisory, contentious, and transactional work for domestic and international corporates. The team is jointly led by New Delhi-based Rohit Kochhar and Bengaluru’s Suhas Srinivasiah; Kochhar specialises in sexual harassment matters, whilst Srinivasiah is an experienced litigator with a focus on tech and outsourcing. Also in Bengaluru, Debjani Aich acts for global IT companies on their workforce-related operations in India in addition to her anti-sexual harassment advisory work. At the same office is senior associate Sidharth Santosh, who assists on workforce restructurings and social security compliances. In Chennai, Savitha Kesav Jagadeesan is the key name for labour disputes and termination contracts.