About

Part of the Tata Group, Tata Steel is one of the world’s largest steel producers with operations in 26 countries and a commercial presence in over 50 countries. As the company’s group general counsel, Dipali Talwar occupies a prominent position in India’s in-house legal sector and covers a wide remit and since being featured in the GC Powerlist: India 2016, she has continued to impress peers by sustaining her high quality legal advice and contribution on important company agreements. These include the recent landmark agreement with Tata Workers’ Union on extension of service, the signing of definitive joint venture agreements to create new steel champion in Europe and the acquisition of Bhushan Steel to name a few. Talwar’s first experience of in-house life was as director of legal and general counsel for India and South Asia at multinational pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. Showing the same expert technical legal skill on company deals there as she does now, Talwar was quickly promoted to the position of senior director for Pfizer’s Global Business Transactions division in New York. Her outstanding work over the course of 20 years of experience in law, policy and governance are well known to peers in the profession.