Karl Fernandes
Karl is a Senior Partner at Vahura and heads Executive Search and Legal Recruitment for corporate legal departments of enterprises and high-growth companies.
Unlocking opportunities in legal, governance & tax
Our services were conceived and developed over the years to respond to the changing needs of the legal sector. Each pushes the sector towards greater professionalisation and efficiency, promoting systems and processes that are value-led and data-backed.
Search Offering
Executive Search
We work closely with enterprises to help them identify and hire the right leadership for their corporate legal departments. Our search process frameworks place a specific emphasis on company culture and individual ambitions, along with a strong focus on compensation and benefits structuring to ensure our professionals are the best fit for our clients.
Board Search & Advisory
At Vahura On:Board, we facilitate the appointment of independent directors and offer consulting solutions on board development.
Legal Recruitment
We bring deep understanding of the sector and the wide reach of our network to match clients with professionals that are right for them. We go beyond professional experience and competence to ensure cultural compatibility, resulting in long-term hires that grow with their organisation.
Tax and Finance Recruitment
Our Tax Recruitment practice delivers specialist search solutions for permanent tax roles to corporate houses across sectors, funds, law firms and accounting firms in India.
Compliance Recruitment
Vahura's Compliance Recruitment practice delivers specialist search solutions for full-time compliance roles to enterprises and growth stage organizations across sectors in India
Secondment Services
Counselect, the secondment services offering by Vahura, helps enterprises and high-growth organisations identify and hire the right legal professionals to act as in-house legal resources for specific short-term projects.
Over the years, we have been entrusted with mandates from leading law firms in India and abroad, private equity and venture capital funds, the Big Four, and Fortune 500 companies.
Lee Ignatius
Lee is the Co-Founder and a Partner at Vahura. He heads the Private Practice and Funds Search Practice Group at Vahura.
Shweta Sheth
Shweta is a Vice-President at Vahura, where she plays a key role within Executive Search, Compliance and Legal Recruitment, and also heads the In-House Group Practice in Mumbai and Bangalore.
Aneesh Patnaik
Aneesh’s litigation background and a decade of market-making experience, make him the go-to advisor for firms, chambers, and practitioners looking to scale or upgrade their disputes practices. Aneesh has also helped set up chambers and forge transnational alliances. A deal maker extraordinaire, Aneesh has led some of the largest practice mergers in recent Indian law firm history.
Suren Sundaram
Suren is a Vice-President with the Private Practice and Funds Group, where he focuses on legal recruitments at the partner level, practice acquisitions and firm mergers. He is also responsible for the recruitment of senior lawyers for private equity and venture capital funds.
Balanand Menon
Bala is a solution architect, data analyst, and an MBA, who loves painting a picture using data. He leads a consulting practice that is at the cutting edge of legal market data, legal operating models, legal technology and innovation. Bala co-conceptualised and led the Vahura Best Law Firms to Work studies (2018 and 2022), and is a sought-after advisor on change management and innovation.
How can we help?
For over a decade, clients have relied on Vahura for our rich expertise and our acute understanding of the trends that shape the future of the legal, governance, tax and compliance sectors. Whether you are an organisation seeking to strengthen your legal and tax teams or your strengthen your board, or you are a law-school seeking to conduct effective career-mentorship programmes, we are here to listen and we are here to help.