Animesh Saha
Senior Management Legal Counsel @ Saint-Gobain I Strategic Partner to CXOs I M&A I Navigating Challenges - Anti-Trust Law, Ethics, Compliance & Governance I Corp. Affairs I Trainer I Speaker I Ex-Exide I Ex-Tata Motors
- Role
- Team Leader - Legal, Saint-gobain - Csg India Region at Saint-Gobain
- Location
- Chennai, TN, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Animesh Saha
With 2 decades + of experience, I currently head the legal function of Glass Gr. & Refractory Businesses, Reg. IT Business & major Construction Chemicals Business @ Saint-Gobain.++ Proven business enabler with 2X growth, with strong problem-solving capabilities, dealing with internal & stakeholders with no adverse impact, thought leadership & effective stakeholder engagements with CXOs/ Business Heads.++ Result driven expertise in brand protections with crafted strategies against counterfeits & infringements, enforcing settlements & recovery of damages, M & As, assessing risks & navigating challenges concerning anti-trust, ethics, governance & corporate trainings.++ Demonstrable abilities to enable business success through sound legal guidance, principled decision making in successfully proven maximising business profitability and growth.As value-driven Senior Management Legal Professional, I have consistently provided strategic legal counsel aligned with business growth objectives. I was earlier associated with the best of senior & arguing counsels before High Courts & Supreme Court, before transitioning as in-house counsel. In Saint-Gobain, I am leading team & spearheading for all various Glass & Refractory Businesses in India, collaborate with EU, MEA, & SEA region; for Reg. IT Business & major Construction Chemicals Business with INR cr.+ turnover amongst others • Strategic Legal Advisory, Business Legal Partnering & Stakeholders Management with CXOs & BU Heads • Problem Solving • Complex Contracts of Domestic & International impacts • Effective Brand Protections • Risks Analysis & Risks Mitigations • Ethics, Compliances & Governance • Managing diverse complexities in areas of Mining, Anti-Trust, Brand Protections, Anti-dumping etc. where I have briefed senior counsels • Structuring renewable power contracts, M&A, issues concerning HR/ Employment Laws & key projects including Data Privacy across businessesI passionately explore synergies & collaborate for knowledge sharing, creating impact, driving business growth & profitability, discussing innovative & result oriented legal solutions for mutual benefit. Salute Award 2024 for Champions of Client Advocacy; & Organisation Recognition for exceptional performances in 2024 & 2025 @ Saint-Gobain India. Win-It-Now Award in Q3, 2021-22 for initiatives & in Q4, 2021-22 for performances @ Exide.🥇Tata Motors Management Development Program @ TMTC - Pune in 2017Champions Award in 2015 for consistent resolution of critical cases and in 2014 for resolution of prosecution matters @ Tata Motors.
Experience
Team Leader - Legal, Saint-gobain - Csg India Region
Jan 2025 — Present · IN
I am leading the team and closely collaborate with all stakeholders from Glass Businesses (Float Glass, Glass Solutions, Homes & Hospitality & Sekurit Business), Refractory Business, Regional Information Technology and major Construction Chemicals Business, aggregating around INR crores and other Businesses for Impactful Strategic Business Legal Advisory, Business Legal Partnering & Stakeholders Management including Business Directors, Dispute Resolutions, Employment Laws, POSH, Sales & Marketing, Brand Protection, Corporate & Regulatory Compliance Initiatives, Risks Mitigations, Commercial Contracts, Legal Metrology, Ethics & Compliance etc. I also spearhead legal awareness, trainings, programmes and strategic advisories to navigate challenges on Anti-Trust Laws at Saint-Gobain India Region and formalize strategic business issues including effective business marketing practices, collaborating with stakeholders in structuring renewable power contracts to attain the carbon neutrality, framing operating practices on HR/ employment laws, providing effective business acumen and strategies in achieving double digit growth, due diligences and structuring transactional documentations on mergers and acquisitions and related complexities and integration at Saint-Gobain India Region.Salute Award 2024 for Champions of Client Advocacy, awarded in February 2025 @ Saint-Gobain Group India Finance Conference, Vietnam.Organization Recognitions from Global Parent Organization.
Education
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
Executive Education Program for Chief Legal Officers
Department of Law, University of Calcutta
LL.B (5 Yrs)
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