About

An international lawyer who understands the intricacies of legal functions at a multinational companies who has the experience to provide mitigating, practically workable solutions to the business while remaining within the realms of legal compliance, Surabhi Madan joined ASM in 2017 and has made an extremely positive impact ever since. ‘At ASM, the highlight of my tenure so far has been to work as a team for the selection, implementation and assimilation of the use of technology in the legal function’, she says. ‘For a very small team with a myriad of responsibilities across the world, our operations have now been made more accessible and efficient thanks to the use of some of the tools that we introduced. Everything from document creation, negotiation, approval to filing and retrieval is now relatively much easier. While we all know the perks of being technologically-savvy function, what we sometimes ignore is the thorough precision and change management exercises that need to be undertaken to be able to modify behaviour, secure management buy-ins and standardise processes. Achieving this has been my most important accomplishment at ASM so far’. She has also been involved in some major projects on behalf of the company since joining: ‘One of the more important transactions that I have been a part of is the setting up a new establishment which involves everything from purchase of land and construction of the building to facility management, hiring or transfer of employees in compliance with all local legislative and regulatory requirements’. Madan’s in-house legal career prior to ASM has encompassed roles with Xerox and Genpact in Gurgaon, India.