GC Influencers
Most Influential GCs - India
Vidyut Gulati of Bharti Enterprises Limited.
New Delhi-based Vidyut Gulati has had a highly successful career in the legal profession, having started as a lawyer for Dua Associates in 2002 before joining Amarchand Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co in 2006 and being promoted to partnership in 2012. She would later move to the newly formed Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co in 2015 before joining Cairn Oil and Gas as General Counsel and member of its executive committee. She subsequently joined Bharti Enterprises in 2017 as Director – Legal before becoming General Counsel and Director – Legal at Bharti Airtel.
In her current role, she has been involved in numerous high-profile matters and is significantly involved strategic transactions, including the USD1. 45 billion investment in Airtel Africa by seven leading global investors including Warburg Pincus, Softbank, Temasek, Singtel and Qatar Investment Authority, as well as Airtel Africa’s subsequent IPO. She has also recently been involved in Bharti Airtel’s impending merger with Indus Towers as well as defending the company against a complaint made by Reliance Jio alleging cartelization and abuse of domain position.