GC Influencers
Most Influential GCs - India
Samir Kazi of Pfizer, Inc.
Samir Kazi has been Senior Director, Legal at Pfizer since 2007 and is responsible for legal and regulatory affairs, advising on complex M&A, compliance and litigation within the company. After graduating Government Law College with a law degree in 1999, he joined Mulla & Mulla & Craigie Blunt & Caroe. His in-house career began in 2006 when he joined Hindjua Group as a Senior Legal Advisor, before moving to Pfizer in 2007.
He attracts praise from interviewees for his management of the company’s large in-house team, with one source reporting that he “generates trust and is able to rally the team around him; they’ll work hard for him without him having to say a word.” At Pfizer, he has been involved in a range of complex corporate and competition matters, including recently advising on the India-aspects of Pfizer’s joint venture with GlaxoSmithKline and the combination of the company’s respective consumer health businesses.