Is Your Company Talking "Digital Transformation" and "Innovation"? You Need to Get Up to Speed with GCCs in India (4 Mar. 2025)
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Global capability centers (GCCs) are offshore hubs that handle a variety of functions for their companies like IT, engineering, R&D, HR, and finance. Corporate leaders are increasingly looking to set up GCCs to drive the transformation and innovation their Boards are expecting.
Given the rising prevalence, if you haven't already started working with a GCC, your time will come sooner than later. As home to more than 50% of the global GCC market (more than half of which are headquartered in the US), odds are it could be in India.
This Webcast from Khaitan & Co, India's largest law firm, will provide a comprehensive primer in just 60 minutes on everything in-house counsel need to know about the current legal and regulatory landscape surrounding GCCs. Attendees will receive practical insights on the corporate, employment, tax considerations of setting up and running a GCC in India, including the various models prevailing for GCCs.
2030 Projections - GCCs & India*:
Domestic Market projection: US$110 billion
- 2,400 centres
- 4.5 million professionals
- 115 new set-ups annually
- $37,760 overall cost per FTE
*Figures provided by "Can a future-back lens help you see a clearer path to success? Future of GCCs in India -a vision 2030 report" by EY
Generously sponsored by Khaitan & Co.

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Roopesh Jain
Deputy Vice President - Legal & Secretarial
Hitachi Air Conditioning
Roopesh is a commerce and law graduate. He is also a qualified Company Secretary and Cost & Management Accountant. He has 25 years’ experience advising businesses in Legal, Compliance, Corporate Governance and Taxation matters in his role as General Counsel with several reputed companies like Hitachi, Daikin, Menarini, Lloyd, SPL etc. in Consumer Durables, Pharma, Oil and Gas, Construction and Finance sectors. He has wide experience working with Indian entrepreneurs and MNC’s engaged in Manufacturing as well as Services sectors.
Roopesh is currently working with a BSE NSE listed and American-Japanese Joint Venture in Indoor Air Quality viz., Johnson Controls Hitachi Air Conditioning as its General Counsel, and designated as Deputy Vice President – Legal & Secretarial. He is based in Ahmedabad.
Roopesh is an experienced Legal professional with a demonstrated history of successful partnerships with businesses he has served with his skills in Contract Management, Drafting, Review & Negotiation, Commercial Litigation, Statutory Compliances, Corporate Secretarial, Corporate Governance, ESG, Risk Management and Joint Venture relationship management.

Rabindra Jhunjhunwala
Partner | Corporate and Commercial, Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity
Khaitan and Co.
Rabindra Jhunjhunwala is a Partner and a senior member in the Corporate & Commercial Practice Group in the Mumbai office. He started with the Firm in its Kolkata office in 1990 and co-founded the Mumbai office in 2001.
Rabindra heads the Firm's IBA, France desk and Germany desk initiatives. He also sits Committee as Conference Coordinator Asia Pacific of the Corporate and M&A Law Committee. He has been appointed Counselor to the President, Union Internationale des Avocats. He is a Patron member of The Bar Association of India.
His practice spans a range of areas, including domestic and cross border M&A, PE investment, transaction documentation work and advises his clients regularly on all aspects of foreign investments (both inbound and outbound) and regulatory approvals. He has advised several multinationals and Indian companies on complex and big-ticket M&A transactions.

Swathy Ramanath
Partner | Energy, Infrastructure and Resources, Mergers and Acquisitions
Khaitan and Co.
Swathy Ramanath is a Partner in the Firm’s Energy, Infrastructure & Resources and Corporate & Commercial practice in the Bengaluru office. Her primary sectors of focus in the Energy, Infrastructure & Resources space are power (conventional and non-conventional), airports, urban rail and infrastructure.
Swathy also focusses on India entry and establishment of global capability centres in India.
Her expertise covers mergers & acquisitions, project and construction contracts, public concessions and commercial contracts.

Deepak Kumar
Partner | Employment, Labour & Benefits
Khaitan and Co.
Deepak Kumar is a Partner in the Employment, Labour and Benefits practice group in the Mumbai office.
Deepak has advised and assisted several multinational and domestic clients on a range of contentious and non-contentious employment and labour matters concerning workforce and benefits restructuring, managing industrial relations, strategizing India entries and exits, closures, downsizing, employee transfers under M&A transactions and internal business reorganisations, among others.