Shilpa Bhandarkar
Co-head, Client Solutions & Innovation, London
Overview
Education and qualifications
Overview
Shilpa Bhandarkar is the Co-head of the Client Solutions & Innovation team at Linklaters and the CEO of CreateiQ, Linklaters’ proprietary contract management platform. She co-chairs of the Firm’s Generative AI Steering Group.
CreateiQ helps automate each stage of the contracting process from draft through to execution, as well as allowing institutions to unlock all contract data from the moment of contract creation.
Shilpa started her career as a lawyer at Linklaters, but then moved to entrepreneurship – successfully exiting a business and growing a legal technology start-up, before re-joining the firm as the Global Head of Innovation.
She is listed as a leading ‘Disruptor’ in The Lawyer Hot 100, 2019 and an ‘Individual winner’ of the ‘TechWomen100 Awards, 2018’. She is a mentor to start-ups on the LawtechUK programme.
Education and qualifications
Shilpa holds an undergraduate and law degree from the National Law School of India (Bangalore, India) and an MBA from the Harvard Business School (Cambridge, USA).
Shilpa is qualified to practice law in India and England & Wales.