Punya Shekar is a Partner at the Bangalore office of the Firm. She has extensive experience in corporate in regulatory matters. She also heads the Prevention of Sexual Harassment practice at the firm’s Bangalore office.
Punya’s practice areas include foreign investments, corporate law, transactional, advisory and regulatory affairs, including advising companies on general corporate compliances and assisting them with resolving pre-acquisition corporate non-compliances.
She has been involved in representing companies with regard to foreign investments in India such as establishment of wholly owned subsidiaries, incorporation of limited liability partnerships, acquisitions and also assisting with their on-going corporate and regulatory compliance in India and their exit from India. She also have been involved in organizational structuring, due diligence and advice on regulatory approvals.
Punya leads the Prevention of Sexual Harassment practice at the firm’s Bangalore office. She has extensive experience of training employees and executives of Independent Committees of companies. She has also handled several enquiries into complaints of sexual harassment of various companies.
She has handled corporate compliance for the world’s leading blue-chip and Fortune 500 companies across diversified industry sectors.