Many mid-career or senior professionals realise that their career has plateaued. When they were young, they grew very fast, but that growth has now slowed down.  Your income, status or position grows 10-20% per year, 100-200% jumps don’t look feasible now. You earn well and are comfortable, but you are not able to jump to …

How many of you have tried to become Independent Directors (IDs) and failed? How many of you discussed this with friends or colleagues and were discouraged? How many of them told you that this was too big a dream, and hence not achievable? Some of you may also say, I wrote the exam and was …

About 15 years ago, India’s corporate sector was put to a severe test. Because in 2009, we saw the unveiling of the biggest scandal in corporate India’s history with the Satyam Computer Services scam.  That scam is relevant to this discussion because it resulted in an unprecedented mass exodus of Independent Directors from the boards …

In 1987, Gowthaman Sounderraj was 15 when he lost his father, a reputable engineer with his own firm, who had dreams of his son joining the business.  After his death, the family was so impoverished that the young boy struggled to even finish school, working as an office boy during the day and studying a …

You may have heard of Activision Blizzard, Inc. It is an American video game holding company based in Santa Monica, California, and is known worldwide primarily for the game Call of Duty. Since 2015, it has been a member of the S&P 500 Index and the Fortune 500 list of companies. The company made headlines …

One of my seniors at an internship at AZB back in 2009 told me that mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are the “bread-and-butter” for any corporate lawyer.  If you are a corporate lawyer, you must know M&A. It is critical for success.  If you want to increase your chances of getting recruited by a law firm, …

A career in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and investment law, one of the most challenging but rewarding and high-flying practice areas that the legal profession has to offer – think Harvey Specter in the TV series Suits!  Are you ready for it? It is a vast area of study, but we are working on the …

Have any of you read the book Cold Steel? I feel it should be compulsory reading for any lawyer or law student wanting to make a career in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and investment law.  Why? If the title doesn’t ring a bell, let me give you the tagline: Lakshmi Mittal and the Multi-Billion Dollar …

What is the most attractive, glamorous, well-paid profession as a lawyer? There are a lot of options. However, in college, I knew only one. Getting a corporate law job at a top law firm was considered the most attractive career option after graduation. Forget college, even school students appearing for CLAT know how much which …