Kruti joined ALMT Legal immediately on graduation from Government Law College, Mumbai in 2005, moved to Delhi and worked with another leading law firm for 2 years. In 2009, Kruti rejoined ALMT Legal as Senior Associate and very soon got promoted to Partner.

Kruti was seconded for 6 months in London with an English law firm where she worked on cross border corporate transactions.

Practice Areas

Kruti’s main practice areas include:

• Advising on domestic as well as cross border M&A and PE transactions - providing structuring advice, preparing term sheets, conducting legal due diligence on the target company, negotiating, finalising definitive agreements, closing and post closing actions.
• Advising extensively on labour laws involving hiring and firing policies, employee handbooks and policies, sexual harassment complaints, regulatory compliances, payment of statutory benefits, retirement policies, etc.
• Advising on exchange control laws relating to inbound and outbound investments. Kruti has a special interest and knowledge in the current FDI policies and trends. Kruti has also attended meetings with the Indian government for making policy decisions.
• Advising on winding up & restructuring of Indian companies, closure of liaison offices set up by overseas companies and acting as a voluntary liquidator for various companies under liquidation.
• Kruti has advised extensively on the data privacy regulations under the Information Technology Act, 2000.
• Advising on IPR matters including filing of trade marks applications, patent searches and copyright issues such as obtaining performance and other licenses from copyright societies.
• Advising on commercial laws and contracts.

Recommendations

• Asialaw Profiles 2018 recommends Kruti for Labour & Employment and IT Telco & Media (TMT) practice areas.
• Chambers & Partners (Asia Pacific) 2018 recommends Kruti as a recognized practitioner for Employment