About

Shelly Kohli is a legal and compliance professional with over 16 years of rich and well-rounded experience spanning across the industrial and consumer goods sectors, and covering a broad spectrum of legal and compliance practices, risk assessment and strategic advisory. She has developed strong skills in in negotiating complex commercial contracts, M&A and business dilution, setting up efficient compliance processes, litigation and external counsel management as well as interfacing with regulators. Kohli has been the assistant general counsel, for South Asia, Middle East and North Africa and a member of the executive team of the company since September 2015. Working with different functions, she has developed a work philosophy of finding solutions to legal and quasi-legal issues such that allows commercial teams to focus on growing the business. She says that, ‘this has helped me be a professional who is perceived by functional stakeholders as pragmatic, solution-oriented, approachable and collaborative, and someone who looks at issues with a strategic and commercial lens’. Through her approach and implementation, the Levi in-house legal department is considered to be a strategic adviser, business partner and a team that works from the front. Kohli has also spearheaded several initiatives on simplifying and standardising company’s legal processes and contracts to enable efficiency and speed of execution.