Advisory Board

We are led by our advisory board comprising of lawyers, in-house lawyers, jurists and judges, who have extensive experience in India and the United Kingdom.

Our Advisory Board Members

Ajit Mishra

Founder & Chairman, UKILP

Ajit is a dual-qualified senior lawyer have special focus on Indian market. He has many years of experience of leading international M&A and other corporate and commercial transactions.

Ajit is also Member of Senate of Bundesverbandes für Wirtschaftsförderung und Außenwirtschaft! -BWA; Special Economic Advisor to the City of Magdeburg (Germany) and Chair of Center for Commercial Studies (Queen Mary) -India Centre Partnership.
Samantha J. Mobley

Samantha J. Mobley

Senior Partner-Competition, Trade & Foreign Investment Practice, Baker & McKenzie

Samantha Mobley is a senior partner in the Competition, Trade &
Foreign Investment Practice of Baker McKenzie’s London office and is a
member of the Firm’s India Steering Committee. She is a former chair of
Baker McKenzie’s Global Antitrust and Competition Group, a team of
over 300 competition and antitrust specialists worldwide. Samantha is a
member of Baker McKenzie’s India Steering Committee.

Samantha is ranked in Competition Law by Chambers & Partners and
recommended as a Global Elite Thought Leader by Who’s Who Legal.
She’s also Co-Chair of the Antitrust Section of the International Bar
Association and a member of the Competition Committee of the City of
London Law Society.

Samantha was elected to the Management Committee of Baker
McKenzie’s London office and served in this role between 2018- 2022.
She also established the first Diversity Committee of the Firm’s London
office. She care in particular about ethnic inclusion and serves on our
London Baker Ethnicity Steering Group.

She has been recognised as a Top Twenty EMPower Advocate,
EMPower Ethnic Minority Role Models 2020 and featured in the India
Business Law Journal International A List.

Geoffrey Picton

Geoffrey Picton-Turbervill

Senior Consultant , Ashurst LLP

Geoffrey is a Senior Consultant with Ashurst LLP, a global
law firm headquartered in London and with more than 1,600
partners and lawyers across 30 offices in 20 countries.

Geoffrey is a graduate of Oxford University, and has been
with Ashurst for 37 years. He specialises in work in the
international energy and resources sector, and has extensive
experience of advising on major transactions and projects in
India, as well as in the UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa and
Asia.

In 1994, Geoffrey established Ashurst’s Liaison Office in
India, and he lived in New Delhi with his wife and family
through 1994 and 1995. He subsequently headed up
Ashurst’s India practice for many years, and has always
been closely involved with Ashurst’s India-related work. He
says that his time living in India was “a wonderful, life changing experience- we made many dear friends, and since that time India has played a big part in my life and my
legal practice”.

Geoffrey has authored and edited numerous publications on
energy and resources law, and has for many years been
nominated in independent directories as one of the world’s
leading energy lawyers.

At UKILP we again have an exciting news to share. We are
very honoured to announce that Geoffrey Picton-Turbervill,
of Ashurst have agreed to join our advisory board in the UK.
Geoffrey was among the first few international lawyers who
believed in India and its potentials. In 1994, Geoffrey
established Ashurst’s Liaison Office in India, and he lived in
New Delhi with his wife and family through 1994 and 1995.
He subsequently headed up Ashurst’s India practice for
many years, and has always been closely involved with
Ashurst’s India-related work. It’s such a pleasure to have
Geoffrey in our UK Advisory Board and we look forward to
working with him. Very warm welcome Geoffrey.

Paridhi Adani

Co-Chair Advisory Board - UKILP
Partner, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas

John Jeffcock

Chief Executive
Winmark

T.K. Viswanathan

Former Secretary of Law & Justice, Secretary General, Lok Sabha, Parliament of India,
Chairman for Indian Bankruptcy Reform Committee

Roop Loomba

General Counsel, Head of Ethics & Compliance (India and South Asia)
Rolls Royce India and South Asia

Manjaree Chowdhary

Executive Director & General Counsel
Maruti Suzuki India Limited

Badrinath Durvasula

Managing Director - Legal
Essar Group

Vineet Vij

Group General Counsel
Tech Mahindra

Dr. Vivek Mittal

Global General Counsel | Law | M&A | Ethics & Compliance |
Governance | Data Privacy

Dr Reddy Laboratories

CV Raghu

Group General Counsel
Samvardhana Motherson Group

Suraj Singh

Head of Legal
Novartis Healthcare (India)

Preeti Balwani

General Counsel & Executive Director
Hindustan Coca-Coal Beverages

Zameer Nathan

Senior Vice President and General Counsel
UFO Movies

Rishabh Shroff

Rishabh Shroff Partner & Co-Head Private Client
Practice & Head, International Business Development

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas

Sudhir Mishra

Managing Partner
Trust Legal

Amar Kumar Sundram

General Counsel - Sr. Vice President (Legal)
and Chief Compliance Officer

NEC Corporation India

Sandhya Vishal

Chief Regional Counsel - South Asia
NielSenIQ

Richa Singh

General Counsel
Medanta Group of Hospitals

Neeti Sachdeva

Secretary General and Registrar
Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration

Mohammed Zaman

Queens Counsel
No 5 Chamber Barrister

Sachin Kalra

Dy General Counsel
HT Media Ltd

Nitin Mittal

General Counsel - Cluster India SC & Pacific
Signify (formerly Philips Lighting)