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Anshul is a Partner at Khaitan & Co and leads the Employment, Labour, and Benefits (ELB) practice of the Firm from its Mumbai office. His Achievements include: Anshul and the ELB practice under his leadership have won several awards and recognitions over the years being ranked Tier-1 across league tables (including the Labour & Employment Law Firm of the Year award at Legal Era Indian Legal Awards 2022). Individually, Anshul has been recognized as amongst the Top 10 Influential Employment Lawyers by Business Today (2023), Ranked by Human Resource Association of India amongst Top 50 under 50 HR Leaders 2023, Labour & Employment Lawyer of the Year 2022-23 by Legal Era, Leading Individual Lawyer (Shankar & Employment) by Legal Era for 2021, 2022 and 2023 as well as Top Individual Lawyer (Labour & Employment) by Forbes India Legal Power list 2020-21. He has also been recognized amongst ALB India’s Super 50 Lawyers in 2022 and 2021 besides being recognized by BW Legal World among Top 40 Under 40 “Finest Lawyers” & “Legal Eagles” of the Indian Legal Ecosystem, and honorably ranked and highly recommended by Chambers & Partners Asia Pacific, Legal 500 Asia Pacific (Leading Individual Practitioner) and Asia Law Profiles (Client Service Excellence in Labour & Employment). Anshul exclusively advises several prominent domestic and international clients on full suite of contentious and non-contentious employment and labour law related matters concerning employee documentation and policies, ethics and compliance, workplace strategies, workforce management including outsourcing and secondment, social security, equity and non-equity based benefits and incentives, industrial relations including trade union strategies, transition due to business transfers, workplace harassment & discrimination, structuring benefits & incentives, health & safety, internal inquiries, white collar investigations, employee communication, staff and management trainings and representation before labour and other statutory authorities. Anshul also leads the Firm’s thought leadership initiative on advocacy & knowledge sharing in employment and labour law space, and actively shares insights on evolving jurisprudence in the employment & labour law space in several industry publications, reputed print media and public speaking events organized by industry bodies including CII, HRFI, ASSOCHAM, IFCCI, IGCCI, ICSI amongst others.