About

Nilanjan Sinha has gathered two decades of in-house experience in marketing-leading companies: India’s leading battery manufacturing company (Exide Industries), India’s largest private sector bank (ICICI), India’s fastest growing private bank (Yes Bank), and one of the world’s most prestigious companies (GE Capital). Since 1994 he has had exposure to large projects across a wide array of legal work from litigating, fund raising (both debt and equity), restructuring, project financing, government relations, regulatory issues and being part of the cross-border joint ventures governance team. The projects he is most proud of include trademark litigations and setting up a greenfield factory while he was at Exide; defending a constitutional challenge of the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act (SARFESAI) 2002; and being associated with the setting up of the commercial dispute resolution forum, while at ICICI. He also had the opportunity to build the legal department at Yes Bank, allowing him to lay the foundations for a team that would go on to support one of the fastest growing banks in India. At GE Capital, Sinha was responsible for multiple M&A transactions and strategically important cross-border joint ventures. He has served as member of the board of directors for multiple companies in his career, further demonstrating his commercial nous and business knowledge. In August 2016, Sinha moved to his current role as head of legal, compliance and public affairs for the Indian sub-continent at Marsh, the insurance broking and risk management arm of Marsh & McLennan, which is a Fortune 250 American multinational. Sinha also doubles up as director of government relations for the wider Marsh & McLennan in India. He is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, and also has a master’s degree in Commercial Laws from the University of Bristol. Whenever he has the bandwidth, you will find him lecturing at law colleges and legal seminars or playing an active role in industry associations and chamber of commerce.