Team News Riveting
Raipur, February 23
Amity University has recently honoured the former Chief Legal Advisor of Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) and the incumbent General Counsel of Larsen & Toubro (L&T) Group, Hemant Kumar with its Honorary Professorship.
The Amity Group of Educational Institutions is a leading Private Education Group that has already established 11 Universities, 150+ Institutions, 28 Schools & Preschools with more than 185,000 students at over 1300 acres in India and abroad including London, New York, Abu Dhabi, Singapore, South Africa, Mauritius, Tashkent, Romania, Amsterdam, and Uzbekistan.
Whereas Hemant Kumar is currently serving as the Group General Counsel for Larsen & Toubro Ltd. A seasoned legal professional with over 35 years of experience, Kumar comes from a family of lawyers, corporate counsels, and judges. An expert in litigations and arbitrations under both Indian and International Laws/Acts,
Kumar is a Gold Medalist in LLB and started his journey as an Advocate, he has also previously held senior positions at State Bank of India, BSP-SAIL, JSW Steel (formerly known as Ispat Industries), President (Legal) – Reliance ADAG and Group General Counsel – Essar Group and is widely recognized as a veteran In-house Counsel in Litigations and Arbitrations. He has also been empanelled as a faculty with distinguished MBA & Engineering colleges. In fact, Kumar was also a Paper Setter and Examiner for the diploma course in Safety Engineering Examinations.
He has been a recipient of many prestigious awards in his glowing career, including the Jawahar Award, one of BSP individual honours, Business Excellence Award by Legal League Counsel, General Counsel of the Year 2013 by Legal Era magazine and also by Corporate Counsel India through former Justice Deepak Kumar Verma and Justice V S Sirpurkar, Supreme Court of India.
He has also been awarded as Chambers GC Influencers Award: India (2019) by Chambers and Partners, London UK, and “Legal Icon of India” (2020) by Legal Era Magazine. Under the leadership of Kumar, RSG London awarded Corporate Legal Department of Larsen & Toubro Ltd. as “Best Legal Department of India”.
Recently, Kumar, being a BW Legal World Top 100 General Counsel 2020 Awardee, was exclusively interviewed by BW Legal World and was also featured on cover page of their Magazine, in the November 2021 edition.
