Novartis Appoints Aditi Gandhi As Head Legal – Gulf
Novartis appoints Aditi Gandhi as Head Legal – Gulf, strengthening regional legal leadership.
Novartis Appoints Aditi Gandhi as Head Legal – Gulf
Novartis has appointed Aditi Gandhi as Head Legal – Gulf, marking a significant step in strengthening its legal leadership across the region.
Aditi Gandhi steps into this role following her impactful association with Novartis, which began in January 2025 through a GCC secondment. During this period, she gained valuable exposure to the business and worked closely with the global legal community across markets, building a strong foundation for her leadership role.
Aditi Gandhi on Her Appointment said,
"Happy to share that I have stepped into the role of Head Legal Gulf at Novartis. My journey with Novartis began in January 2025 through a GCC secondment, which provided early exposure to both the business and the people behind it. Collaborating with the dynamic Novartis global legal community and colleagues across markets reinforced my focus on work grounded in purpose and impact. I am thankful to Mohamed Ezz Eldin and Nicholas Barbosa for the trust placed in me, and I look forward to continuing to partner with colleagues across Gulf and wider legal community at Novartis. As I close an important chapter with Pinsent Masons Vario, I would like to thank the team there, and especially Julian Sarkadi, for the trust and experience gained along the way."
About Aditi Gandhi
Aditi Gandhi is a seasoned corporate and commercial lawyer with extensive experience across the UAE and India. She has advised on corporate structuring, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, commercial contracts, and employment matters. Her work spans advising multinational corporations, high-net-worth individuals, and institutional clients on complex cross-border transactions and strategic business expansions.
She has played a key role in high-value transactions, including acquisitions, joint ventures, IP licensing arrangements, and private equity fund structuring, along with representing clients in commercial litigation and arbitration proceedings.
Aditi Gandhi’s practice focuses on corporate structuring, business and asset acquisitions, joint ventures, shareholder arrangements, commercial contracts, and employment advisory. She also has significant experience in commercial litigation and arbitration, with a strong emphasis on cross-border transactions and regulatory advisory across the Middle East.
Experience
Aditi Gandhi is currently associated with Novartis, where she initially joined as Senior Legal Counsel (Secondment) in January 2025 in the United Arab Emirates before stepping into her current leadership role. She has also been working as a Legal Consultant at Pinsent Masons Vario since November 2024 in Dubai. Prior to this, she served as Legal Counsel (Secondment) at Miral for a brief period in 2024.
Earlier, she worked as a Corporate & Commercial Lawyer at MAS LAW from 2021 to 2024 in Dubai, where she handled a wide range of high-value transactions and advisory mandates. She was also a Corporate & Commercial Lawyer at SAT & Co. between 2019 and 2021. She began her legal career at Dhruve Liladhar & Co. in Mumbai, where she worked for nearly five years, gaining experience in corporate transactions, litigation, and arbitration, and also completed her internship training there.
Education
Aditi Gandhi holds a BLS, LL.B degree from Mumbai University, which laid the foundation for her legal career and expertise in corporate and commercial law.
Aditi Gandhi’s appointment underscores Novartis’ commitment to strengthening its legal capabilities in the Gulf region, bringing in experienced leadership with strong cross-border expertise to support its business operations and strategic growth.
Novartis is an innovative medicines company. Every day, working to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives so that patients, healthcare professionals and societies are empowered in the face of serious disease. Our medicines reach more than 250 million people worldwide.
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