Shalini Saxena is now heading the Legal team at CoinDCX. Till last week as General Counsel for Pine Labs, a unicorn company in the fintech space, which she joined 2019. Her journey of over two decades started with a Delhi-based law firm, Kundra & Bansal, working as a litigating and corporate associate. Later, she joined Naspers, a South Africa-based company.

Thereafter, she became General Counsel for GE Renewables, a Tier-1 business in GE, comprising wind and hydro products and services. The key projects she handled included implementing turn-key solutions for wind business comprising multi-dimensional risk-Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, land, developer, policy compliance, and risk/reward balance through construction and operational life of the projects.

Shalini has gained expertise in renewables, credit cards, consumer finance, power, social media and, manufacturing set-ups. She has dabbled with commercial transactional work and mergers and acquisitions across multiple jurisdictions. Other than India, the regions covered by her include Bhutan, Nepal, Georgia, Vietnam, Malaysia, China, South Africa and Dubai.

Her motto for achievement: enjoy your work and stay a student always.

Shalini has a vision and clarity on business goal balanced with subject acumen which has benefited the organisations she has worked with immensely.

"Don't externalise validation. You alone should be your critic and competition. Believe in yourself"

Jobs that you do in a company, functions you work with are all your study material. So, learn something new, understand the topic, not necessarily legal, sit in functional meetings, read your subjects thoroughly, and stay the course. Don’t fear failing; those lessons you will remember best.