Baljit Singh Kalha — CEO

Strategic Legal Advisor and Counsel. Results-driven legal and risk management strategist with 24+ years of dynamic leadership experience. Proven expertise in advising Fortune 500 companies’ high-stakes litigation management, legal strategy, negotiations, and stakeholder coordination. Skilled in managing emergent situations, navigating complex laws and regulations, vetting agreements and building regulatory connections. Recognized for bridging business acumen with legal and risk management and aligning strategies with organizational goals. Managed 25000+litigations and led 1000+ contracts. In keeping with a deep generalist mindset and due to my leadership role I am also heavily involved in litigation practice and was a critical member of the Indian and International team of lawyers working on the dispute between Italy and India concerning the “Enrica Lexie” Incident (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrica_Lexie_case ). Highlights also include obtaining orders for the dissolution of the Jagajit Brown Forman JV, Federal Mogul’s acquisition of listed shares of Goetze; conducting Fintech arbitrations, conducting over 200 commercial real estate transactions for leading European brands and resolving disputes caused by COVID related FM, negotiating and implementing EDWC Levy’s JV with Tata for the entire slag management and utilization at Jamshedpur, JPower’s investment and exit from the Ramagundam Project, conducting fraud investigations and resolving criminal charges faced by clients. Conducted some of the first few Fintech dispute resolutions. Now specialise in managing legal recovery and collection efforts and regulatory interactions. Responsible for creating a cost effective and high performing architecture for recovering secured and unsecured loans. Also advise leadership teams and provide strategic advice with a business solution mindset. I also provide strategic legal counselling to top and middle management, internal business and product teams (including legal, public policy, communications and sales & marketing teams) across a diverse range of complex issues, act as a key negotiator for strategic transactions, equity and debt deals, ESOP schemes, cap table management etc. Also assist in regulatory engagement and work with industry bodies to drive policy change initiatives in regulatory forums. Also work with business teams to explore and evaluate new business opportunities, to help the teams understand the regulatory compliances and to facilitate launch of new products/ services.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned legal expert specializing in Fintech and Corporate Law with extensive litigation experience.

Location: South Delhi, Delhi, India

Experience: 26 yrs