About

After working as a litigator at the High Court at Delhi and the Supreme Court of India, Dipali Talwar moved on to handling ‘seminal’ constitutional, civil and criminal law cases. At law firm Arthur Andersen in India she was recognised for her capabilities as a corporate law and regulatory policy advisor to government, international institutions and companies in sectors ranging from infrastructure, energy, telecommunications, media and consumer goods. Talwar’s first in-house counsel position was at Pfizer, a global research-based biopharmaceutical company, as director of legal and general counsel for India and South Asia; this was followed by a promotion to senior director of global business transactions in New York. At Pfizer, Talwar advised on transactions, market entry and expansion strategies with her knowledge of investment structures, joint ventures, regulatory policy and legal assessment of risk and compliance. Talwar is now group general counsel for Tata Steel, the Indian multinational steel-making company headquartered in Mumbai and a subsidiary of the Tata Group. She is also on the panel of the board of directors, member of the Delhi Bar Association, New York State Bar and member of the US India Business Council Legal Executive Committee.