Apeksha Mattoo

Introduction

Apeksha Matoo is a partner with 16 years of experience and currently part of Trilegal’s employment law practice. As part of one of the country’s leading M&A, joint ventures, and general corporate practice law firms, she advises on all employment related aspects of corporate contracts and transactions in India, as well as multi-jurisdictional cross-border transactions. With extensive experience on transaction advisory aspects Apeksha regularly advises clients looking to set up businesses in India on employment and labour compliances, employment aspects of all commercial transactions including analysis and due diligence, mergers and acquisitions, disposals, private equity investments, takeovers and restructurings, along with issues around employee transfers, service provision changes, establishment of new plans, and post-closing integration and implementation.

She has in-depth knowledge and extensive experience covering all legal aspects of the employment and labour practice. Apeksha has advised clients on complex employment law issues on workforce structuring, contentious senior management exits, reductions in the labour force, closures, employee transfers, integrations, workplace harassment, enforceability of non-competes and other restrictive covenants, and trade unions. She has also advised on implications for and liabilities of directors and principal officers under various statutory labour enactments, compensation structuring including the issue of promote and carry to senior management, designing and reviewing incentive schemes for various grades of employees, employee benefits funds and stock option schemes, etc. Immigration issues are also among her areas of expertise, especially in the criteria for granting of visas (business, employment, etc.), immigration rules applicable to expatriates; co-ordination with immigration agents on the protocols required at the Foreigner Regional Registration Office.

Apeksha regularly assists with employment audits and investigations, employee fraud, mismanagement, breaches, and sale of confidential data by employees, investigating charges, conducting interviews, preparing scripts for management discussions with the suspect/implicated employees, as well as corrective steps for system cleansing. Additionally, she conducts training sessions sensitising HR teams, for senior management on anti-harassment and anti-discrimination laws, appropriate complaint redressal in cases of discrimination and harassment. Some key clients who she has advised include Logos, IMC Trading, Alchemy, Heineken, Nomura, Citibank, HDFC Capital, Saudia Airlines, RMZ Group, the GIC, Phillip Morris, the IARC, Lockton Corporation, and the NIIFL, etc.