Pratibha Jain

Group General Counsel and Head of Strategy at Everstone Group

Speaker

Ms. Pratibha Jain is the Group General Counsel and Head of Strategy at Everstone Group. She is also a part of Management Committee at Everstone.

Everstone Group is one of Asia’s premier investment groups. It has assets of ~ US$8 billion across private equity, real estate, credit, climate impact, and venture capital.

She is an alumni of Harvard Law School, Oxford University and Delhi University. She brings with her a breadth of international and Indian experience having worked with Sullivan & Cromwell in New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong, with Skadden Arps Slate, Meagher and Flom LLP in Hong Kong and Goldman Sachs in Mumbai.

She has worked on some of the most challenging projects in financial services and regulatory sector globally and in India, including, setting up of India’s largest climate impact fund, sponsored by Government of India and UK government through FCDO, representing Ministry of Finance for structuring of India’s first USD 6 billion quasi sovereign wealth fund (National Infrastructure Investment Limited NIIF) and designing USD 1.3 billion special ‘window for funding stalled affordable and middle income housing projects’ as an AIF fund, creating India’s first SME exchange.

She serves as jury member for Business World and Forbes Legal Powerlist Awards. She enjoys working and writing on public policy issues and is regularly quoted in news on various public policy issues. She is a Fellow of the Seventh Generation Class of Ananta Aspen’s Kamalnayan Bajaj Fellowship and member of Aspen Global Leadership Network. She received the “Woman Lawyer of the Year Award 2019” by Business World magazine. She has been recognized as a Top Individual Lawyer by Forbes Legal Power list 2020 and General Counsel Award by Forbes Legal Powerlist 2022.

She’s also the Founding trustee of We4Her Foundation that works on gender justice and gender equality. We4Her has worked on programs such as primary research on gender specific criteria for public infrastructure, primary research on reasons for gender violence in public spaces, programs for safety of girl child through prevention of child marriages and financial literacy for women.