If You Think Positive Covid Is A Big Opportunity

Senior Vice President and Head of Legal, ESSAR CAPITAL, Badrinath Durvasula, holds forth on his professional journey, the essence of leadership, working from home, books and more…

- Badrinath Durvasula

Senior Vice President and Head of Legal, ESSAR CAPITAL, BADRINATH DURVASULA, holds forth on his professional journey, the essence of leadership, working from home, books and more…

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1.You joined ESSAR as its Senior Vice President and Head Legal in Mumbai on June 1st this year, at the height of the COVID pandemic. What challenges did you face, and how have you gone about tackling them, in your organization and outside?

I’m the one who looks at every adversity as a kind of opportunity and COVID is no different. I joined ESSAR when all economic activity had ground to a halt. That’s where legal professionals step in to ensure that justice is done, sometimes by way of a unique proposition. When ESSAR’s promoters and senior leaders contacted me saying there was a wonderful opportunity where I could offer my expertise and exposure, I accepted the challenge with two things in mind. One, what is it that I can give to the organization. Two, what can I resolve economically and what is going on in this domain. And in the last three months, I have deep dived into issues bothering the organization and there is enough opportunity to resolve quite a few issues going forward. To sum it up, COVID is a big opportunity for legal professionals, especially those who think positively that it creates a value proposition otherwise it is arrested hope. So going forward, I want everyone to think positive because COVID has not yet ended. I don’t know how far it will continue but we are going to face this kind of a reality in future as well.