Sormistha Ghosh is Group General Counsel and Chief Risk Officer at Strides Pharma. A competent lawyer from India, she served as a consulting lawyer for almost a decade before taking up in-house roles with global MNCs’. Sormistha has been associated with Strides Pharma Science Limited for over five years now.

In her current role at the group level globally, Sormistha looks after the functions of legal, secretarial, compliance and enterprise risk management. It enables her to exercise equal efforts for strategy, operations, collaboration, risk management and creating a legal centre of excellence. It brings in value to the Group operations as board member of the US entity (a material subsidiary outside India), where board members consist of independent director also. Acting as the Chief Risk Officer, Sormistha is responsible for the Risk Management Committee and the Board of Directors for reporting pro-actively all risks identified for the corporation globally.

Sormistha kick-started her legal career as an individual practitioner that continued for 11 years. She worked with some well-known Indian law firms including Kochhar & Co. and Seth Dua & Associates (merged with Advaita Legal during 2017-2019). Following those assignments, she took legal roles in supporting Global MNCs’ India business for companies including 3M, Dell and Schneider Electric. She has been working at Strides Pharma from the last five years. Strides Pharma is a promoter-driven global pharma company operating in >60 countries through >70 entities.

Sormistha has successfully executed over 25 deals (Acquisition/Divestment) worth more than $1 bn during the last five years across India, US, Australia, Africa, MENA, Europe.

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