About

After graduating in law at Kurukshetra University in 2000, Sanjit Kaur Batra began her legal career as an associate at the Punjab & Haryana High Court. After two years there, and brief stints at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the India Center for Human Rights and Law, she joined Mumbai law firm Lall & Sethi, spending four years as senior associate. With particular expertise in trademark matters, Batra shone with one former colleague commenting calling her ‘a serious lawyer and highly professional’. Batra took her first in-house role in 2006 at Nucleus Software, a provider of lending and transaction banking solutions. As an associate manager of legal at Nucleus, she single-handedly looked after all legal and intellectual property matters including customer contracts which are of great importance in a software company. Another former colleague said: ‘she is intelligent, grasps new concepts easily and is knowledgeable. She was of great help in a critical function and I have no hesitation in recommending her for the legal function’. Continuing to build on her intellectual property knowledge, she spent five years at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) before moving to her current role as legal head for the South Asia region at DuPont in 2012. At the multinational science-based products and service company, Batra leads the legal, secretarial and compliance function for the organisation and is part of the corporate management team, providing strategic inputs for facilitating business growth in a complex regulatory environment.