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Malvika Baxi

Practice Heads

Employment Law

Education: B.A.LLB, Deccan Education Society’s Shri Navalmal Firodia Law College, Pune
English, Hindi and Marathi

Malvika is a seasoned legal professional with over a decade of experience advising domestic and international clients on complex legal, regulatory, and strategic matters. She is known for her ability to provide practical, business-oriented solutions while navigating highly sensitive and high-stakes situations. Her practice is focused on three core areas—Employment Law, Private Client Advisory, and Real Estate, allowing her to offer integrated legal counsel across the lifecycle of businesses, leadership teams, and individuals.

Her extensive experience, commercial acumen, and multidisciplinary perspective have made her a trusted advisor to founders, boards, HR leaders, promoters, family offices, and private individuals across diverse sectors.

Employment LawPractice

Malvika leads a comprehensive Employment Law practice, advising organizations across industries on the full spectrum of workforce-related legal and compliance matters. Her expertise spans employment structuring, executive hiring, compensation and benefits design, employment documentation, workforce transitions, disciplinary processes, employee separations, workplace investigations, industrial relations, and employment-related disputes.

She regularly advises on complex and sensitive mandates involving senior leadership exits, organizational restructuring, business transfers, reduction-in-force exercises, misconduct investigations, regulatory compliance, and strategic workforce risk management. Her practice is distinguished by its ability to align legal compliance with business objectives while safeguarding organizational culture and reputation.

A significant partof her practice is dedicated to workplace compliance and governance, including:

  • Prevention of Sexual Harassment (POSH)compliance and investigations;
  • Labour Codes readiness and implementation;
  • Employment and HR compliance audits;
  • Policy framework design and review;
  • Internal investigations and disciplinaryproceedings;
  • Governance, ESG-linked workplace compliance, and risk assessments.

Malvika serves as an External Member on the Internal Committees of several leading organizations and has conducted numerous workplace investigations and POSH inquiries. She is widely recognized for delivering outcomes that are legally robust, procedurally sound, and sensitive to organizational realities.

Private Client Practice

Malvika advises high-net-worth individuals, business owners, professionals, and families on a wide range of private wealth and succession matters. Her practice focuses on preserving wealth, facilitating smooth intergenerational transitions, and mitigating succession-related risks through thoughtful legal planning.

She regularly advises on:

  • Wills and testamentary planning;
  • Succession and inheritance matters;
  • Estate planning and wealth transmission strategies;
  • Family settlements and family arrangements;
  • Trust structures and private wealth vehicles;
  • Probate and succession-related documentation;

Her approach combines legal precision with a deep understanding of family dynamics, enabling clients to create solutions that are legally sound, tax-efficient, and aligned with long-term personal and family objectives.

Real Estate Practice

Malvika has extensive experience advising individuals, developers, investors, corporates, and institutional stakeholders on a broad range of real estate matters. Her practice encompasses both transactional and advisory mandates across residential, commercial, industrial, and mixed-use assets.

She routinely advises on:

  • Real estate acquisitions and disposals;
  • Property due diligence and title investigations;
  • Leasing and leave-and-license arrangements;
  • Development and redevelopment transactions;
  • Asset structuring and documentation;
  • Real estate aspects of corporate transactions;
  • Regulatory and compliance matters relating to land and property.

Her ability to identify and mitigate title, regulatory, and transactional risks has made her a trusted advisor on complex property transactions and strategic real estate investments.

Thought Leadership, Training and Public Speaking

Malvika is a respected speaker, trainer, and thought leader on workplace law, governance, compliance, and business risk management. She frequently delivers keynote addresses, executive workshops, leadership roundtables, and industry-focused training programmes for corporations, professional bodies, industry associations, and educational institutions.

Her speaking engagements cover a wide range of topics, including employment law developments, labour law reforms and Labour Codes, workplace investigations, POSH compliance, ESG-linked employment governance, organizational culture, workforce risk management, succession planning, and emerging legal issues impacting businesses.

Known for combining legal depth with practical business insights, she is regularly invited to train senior leadership teams, HR professionals, Internal Committees, compliance functions, and management stakeholders on navigating evolving legal and regulatory landscapes with confidence.