Tata Sons appoints NUJS grad Sidharth Sharma as General Counsel

Tata Sons has appointed Sidharth Sharma as its new General Counsel.

Sharma succeeds Shuva Mandal, who left Tata Sons to set up Anagram Partners. He will report to Chairman N Chandrasekaran.

Sharma is a 2005 graduate of NUJS, Kolkata. A Delhi-based lawyer, he has been representing the Tata companies in various cases, including the Tata-Mistry litigation.

He had initially worked as a legal trainee and corporate legal adviser at Tata for a few years, after which he left to start his litigation practice in Delhi.