New Appointments
Tata Sons, the holding company of the Tata Group, announced a couple of key appointments last week. It has appointed Saurabh Agrawal, head of corporate strategy at the Aditya Birla group, as the Tata Group’s Chief Financial Officer and also hired Shuva Mandal, partner at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co., as the group’s general counsel. The company said that the present general counsel Bharat Vasani will move into an advisory role. Mandal, a National Law School graduate, has advised leading Indian enterprises, global private equity firms and Fortune 500 companies in his 17-year career. Agrawal has earlier worked with Standard Chartered Bank and DSP Merrill Lynch. Both of them will join the group from July this year.