Rachel Manser Joins Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas As Chief Knowledge Officer

Rachel Manser Joins Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas As Chief Knowledge Officer

Rachel Manser has joined Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) as the Chief Knowledge Officer and will be based at the firm's Mumbai office.

With nearly 20 years of experience at Linklaters, Rachel most recently served as a Director, leading the firm’s global Knowledge & Learning (K&L) efforts. In this role, she was responsible for overseeing K&L strategy, knowledge management, client-facing K&L initiatives, knowledge technologies, information and research, data governance, and learning and development. Rachel also played a key role in shaping the firm’s approach to innovation and was a founding member of the Innovation Steering Group. Before her leadership in K&L, she worked as a Professional Support Lawyer specializing in competition law at both Linklaters and Allen & Overy.

On her joining, Cyril Shroff, Managing Partner, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, said, “I am thrilled to welcome Rachel to the firm. Knowledge Management, including thought leadership and innovation, is essential to our firm’s ethos. We are putting knowledge at the centre of the firm. Rachel joining us will bring decades of global and best practices. This will further boost our offerings within the firm and to our clients.”

Rachel is an England & Wales qualified solicitor, with a degree in English and German Law. Rachel Manser, Chief Knowledge Officer, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, said, “It is a tremendous honour to be asked to work alongside the eminent lawyers at CAM to harness their extensive knowledge and expertise as a core part of the firm’s future growth strategy. The firm rightly enjoys a superb reputation both in India and internationally, and I am delighted to be part of the team and to work towards taking the knowledge systems to global levels.”