{"id":5609,"date":"2019-12-12T13:10:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T07:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/?p=5609"},"modified":"2020-06-22T21:41:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T16:11:57","slug":"the-role-of-todays-general-counsel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/Businessworld-Global-Legal-Summit-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"BUSINESSWORLD GLOBAL LEGAL SUMMIT 2019: THE ROLE OF TODAY&#8217;S GENERAL COUNSEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anandandanand.com\/safir-anand\/\"><span data-entity-hovercard-id=\"urn:li:fs_miniProfile:ACoAAAVlzoABa-374zeW5U_r3D71WFkkYzHEyzM\" data-entity-type=\"MINI_PROFILE\">Safir Anand<\/span><\/a><span id=\"ember8940\" class=\"ember-view\"> was invited to speak at the <\/span><span data-entity-hovercard-id=\"urn:li:fs_miniCompany:7198613\" data-entity-type=\"MINI_COMPANY\">BW Businessworld<\/span><span id=\"ember8948\" class=\"ember-view\"> Global Legal Summit 2019 held on December 12, 2019, at New Delhi on the \u2018Role of today\u2019s General Counsel\u2019. The event was hosted by Dr. <\/span><span data-entity-hovercard-id=\"urn:li:fs_miniProfile:ACoAAAFIYmgBgE2z-RzKInwHddf0McOhnBYQlk4\" data-entity-type=\"MINI_PROFILE\">Annurag Batra<\/span><span id=\"ember8956\" class=\"ember-view\">, Chairman of Businessworld and among other panellists were <\/span><span data-entity-hovercard-id=\"urn:li:fs_miniProfile:ACoAAAKXcusB7-MN1muhEJPGkPDXx2dKHC-C8yc\" data-entity-type=\"MINI_PROFILE\">Preeti Wadhawan<\/span><span id=\"ember8964\" class=\"ember-view\">, Director, Legal, <\/span><span data-entity-hovercard-id=\"urn:li:fs_miniCompany:7051\" data-entity-type=\"MINI_COMPANY\">Springer Nature<\/span><span id=\"ember8972\" class=\"ember-view\">; <\/span><span data-entity-hovercard-id=\"urn:li:fs_miniProfile:ACoAAAObxXwBuG5Ac0h29sSlTZe5jdDUb3UTwEU\" data-entity-type=\"MINI_PROFILE\">Amar Kumar Sundram<\/span><span id=\"ember8980\" class=\"ember-view\">, India Head-Legal, <\/span><span data-entity-hovercard-id=\"urn:li:fs_miniCompany:1730\" data-entity-type=\"MINI_COMPANY\">RBS<\/span><span id=\"ember8988\" class=\"ember-view\"> and <\/span><span data-entity-hovercard-id=\"urn:li:fs_miniProfile:ACoAAAIaCXEB-Kska71U6F4imZytXQnaRSmbVCw\" data-entity-type=\"MINI_PROFILE\">Dr. Sanjeev Gemawat<\/span><span id=\"ember8996\" class=\"ember-view\">, Executive Director (Legal), <\/span><span data-entity-hovercard-id=\"urn:li:fs_miniCompany:89138\" data-entity-type=\"MINI_COMPANY\">Dalmia Bharat Group<\/span><span id=\"ember9004\" class=\"ember-view\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"ember9004\" class=\"ember-view\">Safir shared that the role of a General Counsel has been rapidly evolving with businesses intensifying their focus on disruptive innovation, risk management and corporate governance. The responsibility of a counsel is more than meets that eye; he is expected to strategize, opine formulae to evade risks and layout plans of scaling up, thus providing businesses comprehensive, one-stop business solutions. With the increasing linkage of law, regulations and the business, Safir also expressed the view that GCs will soon be candidates for CEOs.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-5609-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/BW-Businessworld-Global-Legal-Summit.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/BW-Businessworld-Global-Legal-Summit.mp4\">https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/BW-Businessworld-Global-Legal-Summit.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Safir Anand was invited to speak at the BW Businessworld Global Legal Summit 2019 held on December 12, 2019, at New Delhi on the \u2018Role of today\u2019s General Counsel\u2019. The event was hosted by Dr. Annurag Batra, Chairman of Businessworld and among other panellists were Preeti Wadhawan, Director, Legal, Springer Nature; Amar Kumar Sundram, India [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[320,122,581,256],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Businessworld-Global-Legal-Summit-2019.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5609"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5817,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5609\/revisions\/5817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}