Anish is a motivated business-focused professional with a diverse experience of around 24 years in legal, regulatory, and accountancy. He heads Regulatory Affairs for the Global enterprise business of BT and holds responsibility for approx.187 countries within AMEA, Americas, Europe & India where BT operates. He owns informing BT Global's regulatory strategy across the globe.

Additionally, Anish is also the India General Counsel and holds responsibility for Commercial Legal, Litigation & Employment Legal, India telco regulatory, Corporate Governance, Ethics & Compliance, and the Customs & International Trade functions for all BT lines of businesses operating in India. India also forms part of the leadership team for BT GBS being the shared services business of BT across India, Malaysia, Poland, and the UK.

He has a background in deal lawyering, regulatory affairs, and governance. He has a proven track record in delivering in a fast-paced sales-driven environment and enabling businesses in a technologically evolving eco-system that is also highly regulated. He deploys his experience based on his commercial acumen and strategic thinking with a firm grip on key business risks including commercial, regulatory, and ethics & compliance.

Anshul Prakash is a Partner with the Employment Labour and Benefits practice group in the Mumbai office. Anshul exclusively advises several prominent domestic and international clients on full suite of contentious and non-contentious employment and labour law related matters concerning employee documentation and policies, ethics and compliance, workplace strategies, workforce management including outsourcing and secondment, social security, equity and non-equity based benefits and incentives, industrial relations including trade union strategies, transition due to business transfers, workplace harassment & discrimination, structuring benefits & incentives, health & safety, internal inquiries, white collar investigations, employee communication, staff and management trainings and representation before labour and other statutory authorities.

Anshul also leads the Firm’s thought leadership initiative on advocacy and knowledge sharing in employment and labour law space, and actively shares insights on evolving jurisprudence in the employment and labour law space in several industry publications, print media and public speaking events organized by industry bodies, including CII, HRFI, ASSOCHAM, IFCCI, IGCCI, ICSI amongst others and practice forums such as IBA, IEL to name a few.

Anshul and the ELB practice under his leadership have won several awards and recognitions over the years being ranked Tier-1 across league tables (including the Labour & Employment Law Firm of the Year award at Legal Era Indian Legal Awards 2022). Individually, Anshul has been recognized as Litigation star in Labour and employment for the 2024 edition of Benchmark Litigation Asia Pacific he is also amongst the Top 10 Influential Employment Lawyers by Business Today (2023),  Ranked by Human Resource Association of India amongst Top 50 under 50 HR Leaders 2023, Labour & Employment Lawyer of the Year 2022-23 by Legal Era, Leading Individual Lawyer (Labour & Employment) by Legal Era for 2021, 2022 and 2023 as well as Top Individual Lawyer (Labour & Employment) by Forbes India Legal Power list 2020-21 and 2023-24. He has also been recognized amongst ALB India’s Super 50 Lawyers in 2022 and 2021 besides being recognized by BW Legal World among Top 40 Under 40 “Finest Lawyers” & “Legal Eagles” of the Indian Legal Ecosystem, and honorably ranked and highly recommended by Chambers & Partners Asia Pacific 2024, Legal 500 Asia Pacific (Leading Individual Practitioner) and Asia Law Profiles (Client Service Excellence in Labour & Employment).

Vivek Sriram is a Partner in the Corporate and M&A practice group in the Chennai office. His practice focuses on advising international and domestic clients on structuring of transactions, investment strategies, domestic and cross-border M&A, strategic alliances, joint ventures, private equity, venture capital investments, strategic buy outs and exits and general corporate matters.  

Kruthi N Murthy is a senior associate at Khaitan & Co in the Employment Labour and Benefits (ELB) practice group. She has advised several prominent domestic and international clients on various employment law and related matters, including senior executive employment documentation, workforce management, social security compliance, employee transition due to business transfers, workplace harassment and discrimination, internal inquiries, workforce restructuring and internal investigations. Kruthi has also advised clients regarding C-suite employee exits and enforcement of restrictive covenants. She has also been advising clients in relation to the labour codes 2019-20, and the expected changes to India's labour law regime.