Anubhav Kapoor is the Director, Legal Affairs at Ford India, Pune. He is responsible for intellectual property rights, regulatory compliance and corporate governance practices and policies for the entities of the Company in India. As an in-house counsel, he has 29 years of experience, which spans various industries including information technology, automotive, aerospace, pharmaceuticals, food, banking and insurance software and engineering.

He has handled multifarious areas such as mergers and acquisitions, arbitration and litigation management, structuring large business contracts, intellectual property rights and global compliances. Passionate about innovation, he has assisted large corporates including Tata Technologies, Cummins, Domino’s Pizza India and Polaris in devising their intellectual property creation and monetisation strategies.

Anubhav has also handled contracts and litigations involving complex IP issues, including during mergers and acquisitions, spin-out and joint venture deals. Having done his Master’s in Law from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, he did his MBA in Finance & Information Technology from the Institute of Management Technology. He was listed in the Intellectual Asset Management Strategy 300 among the World’s Leading IP Strategists and was awarded the Star General Counsel (2017) of the Year by Legal Era. He also figured among the top 100 General Counsels in India by Business World (2021). He was a part of the Elite BW Legal World Top 100 General Counsels of India by Business World (2021). He was awarded the CSR Leadership Award 2018 by World CSR Congress. Best Automotive Lawyer – Individual Category by India Business Law Journal In-house Counsel Awards - Dec 2021. Best Leading Lawyer 2022 by World Intellectual Property Forum Intellectual Professionals LLP -Jan 2022.