Vani Mehta is the Regional General Counsel, GE Aerospace South Asia.

In her role as Regional General Counsel for South Asia, she leads Aerospace legal team in the region supporting commercial engines, defence and systems, supply chain and engineering centre at JFWTC in Bangalore ensuring enterprise-wide consistency to GE’s legal strategy and approach. She is an advisor to the GE senior leadership in the region and drives GE’s thought leadership in the legal fraternity.

With over 2 decades of legal experience, before joining General Electric, Vani was an Attorney at SAP handling various jurisdictions across the globe. Prior to that she was in private practice for several years with Little &Co. (the oldest law firm of India), she has been a litigator and practicing advocate before Supreme Court of India, Delhi High Court and various tribunals in both civil and criminal cases. She has also worked extensively in general corporate area of practice including real estate, securities & capital markets, company law and telecom for several leading MNC’s across the globe and leading government bodies in diverse industries.

She has been honored amongst Top General Counsels of India by various prestigious legal and business publications like India Business Law Journal, Forbes India Legal Powerlist, Business World Legal and Legal Era and named amongst ‘Most Influential Women in Law 2024 – In House Change Makers’ by BW Legal World.

She has served as The Chairperson of Sub-Committee on General Counsels and member of ESG & Climate Change under the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) National Committee on Legal Services for the year 2023-24 and is currently member of CII Aviation Sub-Committee.