Flipkart appoints JP Morgan’s Saroj Panigrahi as General Counsel Head of IPO
Flipkart appoints Saroj Panigrahi, who was head of JP Morgan’s legal department in India, as its senior vice-president and general counsel as the Walmart, Inc-owned e-commerce giant readies for a proposed initial public offering (IPO) this year or 2022.
Bijoya Roy, who has led the legal operations of the Bengaluru-based firm since January 2019 will transition into the role of vice president, head of legal for Flipkart Operations, and report to Panigrahi. She will dedicate her focus towards overseeing all legal matters towards the operations across Flipkart, Myntra, and Flipkart Wholesale.
Panigrahi has over 22-year experience, gained deep and vast exposure of leading in-house counsels and managing external counsels with practice areas spanning M&A (mergers and acquisitions), corporate transactions and IPO. The other areas of his expertise include board/shareholders’ affairs, corporate governance, policy and regulation.
He has also vast experience in areas such as international contracts, technology, antitrust and data protection, real estate, employment, and dispute management. Panigrahi is a law graduate, a Fellow Company Secretary, a Chartered Secretary (UK), and a Chartered Financial Analyst by qualification.
