Pooja Talukdar
About
Pooja Talukdar is a New Yorkโadmitted corporate attorney with over 20 years of experience, representing domestic and global Fortune 500 companies, high-growth organizations, and emerging enterprises. Her practice centers on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, data privacy, and complex commercial contracting โ helping businesses scale responsibly while minimizing legal and regulatory risk.
Throughout her career, Pooja has guided sophisticated cross-border transactions, managed comprehensive M&A due diligence, and negotiated high-value commercial agreements. She regularly advises executive teams on governance, compliance, risk mitigation, and intellectual property strategy, and is recognized for translating complex legal issues into clear, business-driven solutions.
Pooja also brings distinguished expertise in privacy and data protection. She conducts deep-dive privacy assessments and ensures alignment with leading regulatory frameworks โ including GDPR, CCPAโ building practical, scalable programs that safeguard data while supporting innovation and growth.
Poojaโs career is marked by senior legal leadership roles at premier global institutions, including Nomura (India/US), JPMorgan Chase (India), Goomo Holdings (India/Singapore), and Investment Net (US). She has a proven track record of building elite legal functions from the ground up, leading high-performing teams, and securing the legal integrity of complex, multi-million dollar portfolios.
Pooja holds a double masterโs degree in Intellectual Property Law and Arbitration & Dispute Resolution from the Cardozo School of Law (Yeshiva University, New York City), and an LLB (JD-equivalent) from Bangalore University. She is admitted to practice in New York.
Experience
- Head of Legal/Corporate Counsel at Investment.net: Established legal structure, ensured regulatory compliance, and conducted complex commercial contract negotiations.
- Head of Legal at Goomo Holdings: Oversaw litigation, secured successful settlements, engineered robust legal frameworks, spearheaded product launches and M&A deals, ensured top-tier privacy compliance, and streamlined commercial agreements and corporate governance.
- Strategic Legal Data Privacy Partner at Integreon Solutions: Advanced compliance efforts for US and UK clients, providing expert counsel on GDPR compliance.
- Assistant Vice President at Nomura Services: Led two different teams to (a) set up the US offshore corporate legal functions to review commercial contracts and provide corporate secretarial support, thereby enhancing corporate governance; and (b) establish the offshore prime services desk, enabling the front office operations in Hong Kong in the review and negotiation of equities, prime services, and OTC derivative products such as notes and pricing supplements.
- Successfully led a multi-million dollar automation project generating cost savings of approximately $100M at JPMorgan Chase India.
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Admitted Jurisdictions
- New York
Education
- Masters in Arbitration & Dispute Resolution, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York, NYย
- Masters in Intellectual Property & Data Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York, NYย
- LLB, Bangalore University, Bangalore, Indiaย
Associations
- Member of the New York Bar
- International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)
Languages
- English
- Hindi
- Assamese
- Bengali
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