Srivals Kumar is an Executive Vice-President and Head Legal in Sunteck Realty Limited. He is an award winning Corporate Legal Consultant having an enriching experience for over 25 years as in-house counsel in reputed companies like Bharti Airtel, Tata Teleservices, Star TV, Mumbai International Airport, Flipkart.com, Rustomjee and Sunteck Realty Limited.
Mr Kumar holds an LLB degree from the Faculty of Law, Delhi University (1995) after graduating in BA Economics from Delhi University (1992). He also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management (PGDBM) from Bhartiya Vidya Bhawan in New Delhi.
During his distinguished corporate experience, he has handled issues ranging from Contracts, Statutory Compliances, Litigation as well as Business Advisory to operations/business teams on day-to-day issues from a Legal or Regulatory angle. In addition, Mr Kumar has exposure working in the highly regulated sectors of Telecom, Media, Airports and Real Estate which has thrown lots of challenging issues to deal with. He has a passion for strategic litigation and has handled very high stake litigations with a very high success rate.
He is a regular speaker at various industry forums, legal seminars, and a guest faculty at the reputed law schools/Universities in India.
Mr Kumar has won many awards for his legal acumen like ‘Legal Achievers Award 2019’ for Professional Excellence & Distinguished Service in the corporate sector by Justice (Retd) Dipak Misra, former Chief Justice of India. He is also applauded as "Policy & Regulatory Lawyer of the Year" 2020 by the prestigious Legal Era magazine at its annual awards in March 2020. He is also selected as “My GC100” 2021, part of the top 100 General Counsels in India by Business World Magazine in May 2022.
Every General Counsel and Head Legal must wear a "commercial cum legal hat" while providing advisories or solutions to business teams. In addition with a good in-house Legal team to support the business operation, the GC must have a very "good network of external law firms, lawyers and senior counsels across the jurisdiction of the company operations. Lastly, "Work Smart" and have work-life balance...
