Mansi Bidani co-heads the Governance, Investigations & White Collar Defense at Panag & Babu. Mansi has helped her clients establish risk-commensurate programs in India and carry out comprehensive anti-bribery / anti-corruption risk assessments and due diligence. She has conducted complex, confidential investigations in cross-border settings for clients facing potential legal exposure due to fraud, bribery, money laundering, and violation of company policies, while also helping remediate identified issues to minimize future legal exposure. Mansi serves as external compliance ombudsman to a Fortune 500 oil-and-gas company, as well as to the India operations of a Berkshire Hathaway company. Her sector-agnostic practice and in-house leadership experience makes her a go-to counsel for Indian companies with global aspirations, where she helps them implement internationally benchmarked governance policies.
As part of her Compliance practice, Mansi advises clients on complex labour and employment law matters in addition to helping them create awareness on employer obligations (statutory and contractual) pertaining to employment. Mansi regularly assists clients with the framing and implementation of policy frameworks pertaining to employee conduct and benefits and also serves as an external member on committees for prevention of sexual harassment (constituted under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013) for multinational companies.