About Kriti Kaushik

Kriti Kaushik is a partner at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co. who advises start-ups and fintech companies on implementation of share-based benefits for employees while ensuring safeguards for protection of companies’ proprietary information and business interests, and measures for recovery of benefits in case of post-employment violations by employees. She recently assisted a leading e-commerce platform with strategic conversion of its ESOPs to optimise benefits for promoters while ensuring their continued investment till the proposed listing event, which included changing the resultant benefits in an innovative and fully compliant manner, while securing promoters’ ongoing involvement in the company. Kriti regularly works with IPO-bound companies to design equity-incentive plans that are compliant with the stock exchange regulations and help align the organisational interests as effective tools for promoting employee growth and retention.