Sujeet Jain is the Chief Legal and Regulatory Officer at Nykaa. He has led legal, regulatory, company secretarial, compliances, mergers and acquisitions and corporate affairs functions across organisations. His ability to combine business, law and technology has been the hallmark of his career. His accounting qualifications enabled him to discover that financial issues are intertwined in complex legal problems. He thrives on building teams and systems and processes to enable the organisations to scale to the next level.

His career began as a Company Secretary, but he soon realised his passion for law and joined a law firm. His keen intertest to solve business legal problems led him to move to corporate firms. He is now a seasoned General Counsel with over 25 years of experience in diversified sectors including technology, telecom, media and entertainment and cement.

Sujeet started his corporate journey with Hutchison Max Telecom (Vodafone Idea now) when telecom sector was in evolutionary stage and never looked back. He did his MBA from Warwick Business School, UK and believes that it was a turning point for his corporate career and life in general. Post that, he worked with People Group (Shaadi.com). He had a stint with Viacom18 and played an important role in the launch of critical businesses including Colors and Voot and fought landmark cases in the media and entertainment industry. He has received numerous industry awards including the Best General Counsel at a young age. Under Sujeet’s leadership, the legal teams have won numerous Best In-House Team awards. He has been regularly featured in the Top General Counsels listing including Legal 500.