GC Influencers
Most Influential GCs - India
Meera Singh of KPMG International.
Meera Singh became the first General Counsel KPMG in India in 2017. She brings a wealth of private practice experience and was formerly the head of the Capital Markets practice and the Ethics and Compliance practice at AZB & Partners. She obtained a law degree from CLC Delhi University in 1994 and begun her at New Delhi Law Offices, before moving to AZB in 2001 and making partner in 2007.
She has vast experience of advising on complex matters and has been instrumental in defending the company against the proposal by the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) to seek a five-year ban on Deloitte and its affiliate BSR & Co, following the company’s role advising Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services. One interviewee comments: “We are doing a lot of work with her; we see her role as being quite challenging, the entire environment in India at the moment is against the ‘Big Four’ and we think she is dealing with those issues really well.”