GC Influencers
Most Influential GCs - India
Debolina Partap of Wockhardt.
Debolina Partap is a lawyer with almost 30 years of experience in highly-regulated industries such as financial services and pharmaceuticals. Praised by interviewees as a “very, very experienced” practitioner who is “one of the leading corporate counsel in the country,” she has headed up the legal team at Wockhardt since 2006.
She regularly handles complex issues involving IP and licensing as well as overseeing the firm’s strategy on major litigation. In one recent work highlight, the company managed to persuade the Delhi High Court to set aside a ban on the company’s anti-inflammatory medicine Ace Proxyvon, which was the first petition of several pending ones, filed against the Health Ministry's notification, to be decided by the court.
Also an advocate for diversity issues with a focus on women’s equality, she has been on several panels discussing the challenges faced by women when appointed to act on leadership roles. Before joining Wockhardt, Partap spent almost a decade and a half at the legal department of IDBI Bank.