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Yum! Brands, the largest restaurant chain in the world and the company behind KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, operates around 800 outlets in India. Overseeing legal, compliance and corporate affairs for Yum! Brands across the Indian subcontinent is Priyanka Sinha. While Sinha covers a wide range of areas, she is particularly well-known for her work with the Indian government to help establish a compliant path for Yum! Brands’ expansion in the region. With plans to double the number of restaurants operated by the company in India over the next five years, Sinha has also been busy working with the company’s senior management to identify and scrutinise potential sites. Yum! brands has undergone a reorganisation in India recently, selling more than 300 of its outlets to private equity owned Sapphire Foods India, further diversifying the ownership of its restaurants (some 300 of which are already owned by bottling magnate Ravi Jaipuria’s R.J. Corp). The legal work associated with this reorganisation is described as ‘both extremely complex and rather unique in the Indian market’, with Sinha praised for her ‘outstanding work with counterparties to build commercial solutions’. A significant part of Sinha’s role is harmonising Yum! Brands’ global policies and operating standards with those set out by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI). Prior to joining Yum! Brands in 2013, Sinha was senior director of legal and compliance at United Health Group. She has also led the Asia Pacific legal function at customer and information management Convergys.