Sandeep Chowdhury is the General Counsel, Compliance Officer, Senior Management Member and also in the Board of group companies. With 20+ years of experience in retail, FMCG, chemical, pharma, manufacturing, EPC and service industry and have played pivotal role in cost control, risk management, leading complex transactions (both in India and abroad) and collaborating with key stakeholders for effective business support.

Recipient of Legal 500 GC Powerlist award, the Top In-house lawyer award from IPR Gorilla, Mr. Chowdhury is the Group General Counsel for HCC Ltd, one of the largest infra and EPC Company of India. He looks after legal, regulatory and compliance matters and manages a team of lawyers and leads his team across various verticals.

He is passionate about developing a proactive, connected and metrics-driven culture. In his role, Mr. Chowdhury provides necessary advice and guidance to Senior Management and Board Members. He also manages outside counsel, handles large, complex transactions and litigations, looks after budgets and is focussed on developing the capabilities of the in-house team.

Some of his key area include corporate and commercial contracts, joint ventures, arbitration, litigation, competition law, employment, securities law, compliance, GDR listings (at SGX and Luxembourg), corporate governance, re-structuring etc. Mr. Chowdhury is a rank holder Law graduate from the University of Calcutta and had done leadership courses from Harvard Business School and Walton Institute.

He started his career with the eminent lawfirm M/s Khaitan & Co. specialising on taxation, litigation and a civil advisery matter. His inclination to general corporate legal work made him move to the corporate world wherein he has worked at senior levels in organisations like Walmart, Coca Cola, Baxter, UPL, Lafarge India, OLA, HCC Ltd., both in India and abroad.

He has managed legal, compliance, regulatory and risk management portfolios with teams spread across various jurisdictions. Mr. Chowdhury believes in integrity and personal ethics and has rich experience on US FCPA, having conducted various training and investigations in the matter. He has handled numerous foreign litigations including the Private interest ones in US and Australia.

He has worked on mergers and acquisitions on Global level. He drove the culture of integrity, accountability and compliance in various organisation by introducing certain initiatives. He had supervised teams comprising of members from different countries and had, inter alia, helped business in devising high level strategies and procedures to protect and safeguard the interest of the organisation. He is also a prominent speaker in various legal and compliance forums.

Mr. Chowdhury travelled widely for business purposes to countries like China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Sri Lanka, France, Brazil, Australia, and United States.