Sheetal Sawhney Kapur joins Netflix as Senior Counsel and Director-Legal
By : Legal Era
Update: 2019-08-26 09:33 GMT
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Sheetal Sawhney Kapur who was working with Google India, has joined Netflix as the company’s Senior Counsel and Director-Legal. She would be involved in lead business partnerships and transactions.At Google, she advised on structuring products from a legal and regulatory standpoint for the Indian and West Asian markets. Her work also involved dealing with privacy and data protection,...
Sheetal Sawhney Kapur who was working with Google India, has joined Netflix as the company’s Senior Counsel and Director-Legal. She would be involved in lead business partnerships and transactions.
At Google, she advised on structuring products from a legal and regulatory standpoint for the Indian and West Asian markets. Her work also involved dealing with privacy and data protection, regulatory liaisoning/licensing, M&A, FinTech & payments projects, geographic projects, telecom & broadcasting projects, and various other government-led initiatives.
Sheetal moved to Google from PayU where she was working as Head - Legal, Regulatory and Compliance. She has been widely regarded as a pioneer in the sunrise sector of Payments Law in India. She has also worked in the M&A and private equity practice at JSA. She holds an LLM from the University of Melbourne and an LLB from ILS Law College, Pune.
Sheetal is an Executive Committee Member - Privacy and Data Protection of the Indian National Bar Association. She was awarded the “Women In-House Counsel of the Year 2017 - Legal and Regulatory” at the 68th Constitutional Awards by the Indian National Bar Association.