Group General Counsel of Larsen & Toubro Ltd. Hemant Kumar receives "Honorary Professorship"
Group General Counsel of Larsen & Toubro Ltd. Hemant Kumar receives "Honorary Professorship"
Amity University has honoured Hemant Kumar the incumbent General Counsel of Larsen & Toubro (L&T) Group with its Honorary Professorship.
Hemant Kumar is a seasoned legal professional with over 35 years of experience, and comes from a family of lawyers, corporate counsels, and judges. He is an expert in litigations and arbitrations under both Indian and International Laws/Acts.
The Amity Group of Educational Institutions is a leading Private Education Group with 11 Universities, 150+ Institutions, 28 Schools & Preschools with more than 185,000 students at over 1300 acres in India and abroad including London, New York, Abu Dhabi, Singapore, South Africa, Mauritius, Tashkent, Romania, Amsterdam, and Uzbekistan.
A Gold Medalist in LLB, Hemant started his journey as an Advocate, and has previously held senior leadership positions at State Bank of India, BSP-SAIL, JSW Steel (formerly known as Ispat Industries), President (Legal) – Reliance ADAG and Group General Counsel – Essar Group and is widely recognized as a veteran In-house Counsel in Litigations and Arbitrations. He was the former Chief Legal Advisor of Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP). He has also been empanelled as a faculty with distinguished MBA & Engineering colleges. He was also a Paper Setter and Examiner for the diploma course in Safety Engineering Examinations.
Hemant Kumar has been a recipient of many prestigious awards in his glowing career, including the Jawahar Award, one of BSP individual honours, Business Excellence Award by Legal League Counsel, General Counsel of the Year 2013 by Legal Era Magazine and also by Corporate Counsel India through former Justice Deepak Kumar Verma and Justice V S Sirpurkar, Supreme Court of India.
He has also been awarded as Chambers GC Influencers Award: India (2019) by Chambers and Partners, London UK, and "Legal Icon of India" (2020) by Legal Era Magazine. Under the leadership of Kumar, RSG London awarded Corporate Legal Department of Larsen & Toubro Ltd. as "Best Legal Department of India".
