Burhan's CV
Burhan Khalid
Legal Director – Group Legal | Corporate | Contracts | Restructuring | IPR
Profile summary
Strategic Legal Director with 21 years shaping global corporate governance, litigation strategy, and intellectual property outcomes across the GCC and international markets. Known for directing enterprise-wide legal operations, cross-border transactions, and complex regulatory compliance frameworks. Multilingual professional fluent in 5 languages with extensive experience in corporate restructuring, brand protection, and board advisory. Committed to steering risk mitigation and structural coherence for multinational organizations.
Career highlights
Group Legal Function Direction: Directs the enterprise-wide Legal function across global operations, overseeing litigation, intellectual property, contracts, and external counsel management.
Domestic and International Transactions: Steered domestic and international transactions including joint ventures, acquisitions, and share purchase agreements spanning multiple international regions.
Regulatory Compliance and Risk: Shaped legal strategy for broadcast distribution, regulatory compliance updates, and corporate risk assessment across multiple international territories.
Litigation and Dispute Management: Managed litigation and dispute management spanning civil and criminal cases, arbitration, property, labour, consumer, and anti-counterfeiting issues.
Key skills
Professional experience
Directs the enterprise-wide Legal function across global operations, reporting directly to the Board while advising on strategic sensitivity, governance alignment, and structural coherence. Manages corporate governance guardrails, related-party transaction controls, and shadow director risk management alongside serving as Board Secretary for the ultimate holding companies.
- Steers high-stakes legal proceedings and reports directly to the Board on procedural developments across international jurisdictions.
- Directs intellectual property and brand protection operations covering trademark filing, registration, renewal, enforcement, and litigation across multiple territories.
- Manages enterprise-wide contract and negotiation portfolios across civil and common law frameworks, onshore jurisdictions, and free zone entities.
- Directs legal advisory, contract negotiation, regulatory compliance, brand management, and public relations for the Impulse Business Vertical.
Reported to executive leadership while directing legal and operational strategy across litigation, brand management, contracts, and intellectual property portfolios. Steered domestic and international transactions including joint ventures, acquisitions, and share purchase agreements spanning the Middle East, Africa, UK, and USA. Advised leadership on statutory compliance involving consumer, food safety, factories, and legal metrology regulations.
- Architected business-friendly risk mitigation systems covering operational, contractual, and intellectual property domains.
- Managed national and international litigation proceedings alongside the global trademark and copyright portfolio.
- Reviewed commercial contracts, marketing promotions, and product labels across India, Nepal, Bhutan, and the UAE.
Shaped legal strategy for broadcast distribution, channel placement, and carriage operations across India, Nepal, and Bhutan. Directed litigation planning, regulatory compliance updates with the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, and corporate risk assessment.
- Supervised drafting, structuring, and negotiations of contracts across the Broadcast Distribution Business and domestic television channel distribution.
- Handled settlement of pending legal cases via negotiation, reconciliation, and mediation alongside execution before TDSAT and other forums.
- Coordinated anti-piracy raids and maintained legal enforcement against defaulting parties engaged in copyright infringement.
Reported to the corporate leadership team, overseeing a specialized legal operations unit spanning diverse product categories and sales channels. Handled corporate legal strategy across food laws, cosmetics, supply chain, and salon operations while assessing regulatory risk for business decisions.
- Managed litigation and dispute management spanning civil and criminal cases, money recovery, arbitration, property, labour, consumer, and anti-counterfeiting issues while leading a team of legal executives.
- Managed legal and regulatory product compliance for home and personal care products, including product claims, ingredient qualification, and approval of marketing literature, artwork, and sales advertisements.
- Supported regional office, factories, forwarding agents, and depots on legal and industrial relations matters, creating standardized response templates for recurring issues.
- Managed civil and criminal case files across courts in Delhi.
- Prepared legal documents and processed court submissions.
Education
- 21 years post-qualification experience
Languages
English · Fluent
Hindi · Fluent
Urdu · Fluent
Punjabi · Professional
Arabic · Basic