About

Starting her legal career as a junior lawyer in a criminal law chambers, Roop Loomba also had a spell at Delhi-based law firm Amarjeet & Associates before moving to an in-house legal role at Castrol India in 2005. From here, Loomba rose through the ranks at a variety of companies, including Hindustan Unilever and Louis Dreyfus Commodities, before moving into her current role at Philips Lighting India, a de-merged entity of the global Philips brand. A high-achiever who is the recipient of a range of awards for her services to the company, Loomba points to her role in risk mitigation as having had a particularly positive effect on the company’s operations. Additionally, Loomba advised that she has ‘sensitised the business to legal requirements’, effectively improving processes throughout the company to respond to legal matters. When discussing her career highlights, Loomba points to a mixture of in-house and extra-curricular achievements. On the in-house side, she points to her work at Hindustan Unilever, including her involvement in ‘successfully driving [the] legal strategy in [the] closure of… a sales tax litigation’ case. In terms of outside achievements, Loomba mentions her invitation as a guest faculty member to the Bureau of Police Research and Development in 2009 as another particular highlight. Here, she was brought in as an expert on cyber laws and cybercrime, and the knowledge she imparted was used to develop training programmes for police officers across Northern India. Loomba is highly confident in her own abilities, believing she has the right mix of experience given previous roles in both private and in-house legal practices.