Ajay Dua

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Vice President & General Counsel, IBM Asia Pacific

Ajay Dua is Associate General Counsel at IBM based in Singapore and leads the legal team across Asia Pacific. Ajay has cross jurisdictional experience having worked on a wide variety of matters ranging from contracts, employment, litigation, acquisitions & divestitures, corporate-secretarial, regulatory, compliance to general advisory matters.

Ajay has previously been the lead counsel of IBM Middle East & Africa based out of Dubai. Ajay joined IBM in India which is a microcosm of IBM given it has global delivery centers, research labs, software labs as well as a large customer base and led the legal team as the Regional Counsel for India/ South Asia. Ajay has negotiated large complex outsourcing deals, was the lead counsel for IBM’s strategic expansion in Africa and has also been lead counsel for a development lab. Ajay is focused on building and strengthening a high-performance team which can be a trusted business and legal advisor.

Prior to joining IBM, Ajay worked with a leading Indian law firm and dealt with matters such as project financing, privatization, foreign investments, acquisitions and general corporate advisory.