About

In 2013, Anoop Pillai joined Volkswagen India, the local subsidiary of the multinational German automotive giant which manufactures passenger cars in the Pune region, as general manager of legal and company secretary. Pillai brings more than 25 years of experience in civil and criminal litigation and labour law expertise to his role and has, during his time with Volkswagen, transformed its litigation strategy and taken on its entire compliance systems to optimise performance. Pillai has conducted legal audits through his department and installed and fortified the “Legatrix” compliance management system. In the last four years since he started this program, Pillai highlights that, ‘there have been no hardly any violations reported by any statutory authority such as a factory inspector or labour commissioner’. In 2016, Pillai was instrumental in legally supporting the de-hiving of the IT business of Volkswagen India, to another Group company for handling all of the IT needs of the global company. He ran the drafting of the BTA, novation document, facilitating the valuation of business, transfer of employees, incorporating a new company for acquiring the IT business, structuring the legal department and all other incidental matters. Pillai has been critical in the legal defence of the company in major employment matters as well as arbitrations with a vendor of effluent treatment at Volkswagen’s Effluent Treatment Plant (ETP).