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Since being launched in 1985, Kotak Mahindra Bank has experienced exponential growth earning over US$3bn in revenue in 2017 and ranking as among the top 50 companies in the Fortune India 500 list. This and the diverse operations of the Bank means its chief legal and compliance officer, Ajay Vaidya, woks on a number of high-value and complex deals and projects. Being a long serving lawyer at Kotak Mahindra, Vaidya has extensive knowledge of the company’s operations and has played an integral role on its high-value acquisitions as well as a host of large capital transactions. Most recently he worked on Kotak Mahindra’s acquisition of BSS Microfinance in 2017 and the buyout of Old Mutual’s 26% stake in Kotak Mahindra Old Mutual Life Insurance in 2018. Having worked on these large-scale deals, among many others over a number of years, Vaidya is rightly considered amongst the top Indian in-house professionals in the financial sector.