Home / Publications / CMS Next / Meet our expert: Babita Ambekar, Partner, Singapo...
  1. Protection and loyalty: securing valuable trade secrets
  2. Meet our expert: Maria Figueiredo, Partner, Portugal
  3. Meet our expert: Dalia Majumder-Russell, Partner, UK
  4. Digitalisation and innovation
  5. Contributing to climate-neutral transportation
  6. Investing in intelligent automation
  7. Advising on innovative digital project
  8. Supporting climate-resilient businesses
  9. Supercharged ESG: Getting control of the post-COVID agenda
  10. Meet our expert: Adriana Escobar, Partner, Colombia
  11. Meet our expert: Babita Ambekar, Partner, Singapore
  12. Meet our expert: Bridgett Majola, Partner, South Africa
  13. Meet our expert: Lillian Lofty, Partner, Kenya
  14. Meet our expert: Marite Aragaki, Partner, Peru
  15. Meet our other experts
  16. After the pandemic
  17. Digital transformation & sustainability to help overcome COVID crisis
  18. Data and risk: challenges in an uncertain world
  19. Smart living: creating a framework for disruption and innovation
  20. Technology: a unifying force
  21. The green economy: identifying primary risks and key opportunities
  22. The true cost of ESG
  23. Developing markets
  24. Helping our clients grow
  25. Investing in new technologies
  26. Shaping the Energy Transition
  27. Supporting electromobility
  28. Transforming the short-term insurance industry in the East African market
  29. Advising on a EUR 1.1bn Bulgarian gas pipeline procurement
  30. ALPLA expands its global plastic recycling capabilities
  31. CMS advises on first ever European real estate transaction using blockchain
  32. CMS advises on ‘Train Maya’ rail project
  33. CMS helps the BBC launch the streaming service BritBox in the UK
  34. Commerz Real lands the largest deal in its history
  35. Helping Teyliom Hospitality’s expansion in Central and West Africa
  36. Online gambling grows as Gamesys is sold to JPJ Group
  37. Selling the Merkur offshore wind farm
  38. ST Pharm establishes new medical testing and analysis business line
  39. CMS expands in Norway
  40. One woman’s journey to advocating for fair global health
  41. Raising funds for a good cause
  42. CMS Academy adds participants through digital learning
  43. Lupl delivers transformative open industry platform for legal matters
  44. Heike Wagner on women in law

Meet our expert: Babita Ambekar, Partner, Singapore

What will be the most important market trend affecting your clients’ sectors over the next six months?

The biggest trend that I am continuing to see across the sectors in which I am active is the move to digital. The pandemic has materially accelerated the pace at which businesses embrace all things digital, and technology-related M&A activity is buoyant at present.

How do you expect your work as a lawyer to change in the coming years?

As clients increasingly adopt a value-driven mindset, I expect that we will continue to refine our approach to legal practice in order to derive efficiencies in the way that we manage and execute transactions, be this through the use of technology or further evolving our sector-specific expertise. As the world continues to become more seamlessly connected in a virtual sense, although jurisdictional intricacies will remain, I see the development by practitioners of global centres of excellence in terms of practice area and sector focus as being a very tangible reality.

What advice do you have for those using video call technologies? What have you learned from this phenomenon over the last year?

Whatever hybrid form the future of work takes, video call technologies are now inbuilt into our daily working routines. I am sure that our interactions with clients and colleagues will take place in a myriad of ways and we should continue to leverage both in-person and virtual outreach to most efficiently serve client needs. What I have learnt is that, at the end of the day, what we really we need in order to deliver what we do is presence of mind, a laptop and a WiFi connection.

Key contact

Babita Ambekar
Partner
Head of India Desk, APAC
London
T +44 20 7067 3045