Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Holding an honoraria Masters in Business Law from one of Asia's most reputed law schools National Law College (Bangalore). Also, an Associate Company Secretary with the Institute of Company Secretary since 2012 while being a qualified Lawyer. Worked with IDBI Federal Life Insurance for a period of 2 years in the secretarial, compliance and legal team, later explored opportunities at Larsen and Toubro Infotech Ltd for 2 years until finally moving to Siemens Limited India (Healthcare Business) as a legal counsel, Company Secretary and Data Privacy Officer. Following which, I explored my opportunity to work with a analytical data solution and credit rating company Experian Services as a Company Secretary and Legal Manager. My diversified industry experience helped me challenge my potential while encouraged understanding each of the core businesses. It has encouraging me to harness challenges and possibilities to manage expectations in the legal, compliance & secretarial front . I am looking for opportunities across India to diversify my experience, expertise and use my caliber to explore possibilities.
Role as a Legal counsel : Managing the Company’s relationships with external providers of legal services on an ongoing basis including Contract review, drafting and negotiating with both government and non-government customers. Handling Litigation (civil, criminal and arbitration) and aligning with external counsel. Drafting internal policies and regulations and deriving processes to handle smooth functioning for various support departments. Drafting and maintaining standard templates to equip the Legal Team to advise; ensuring adherence to internal processes and reports and legal & regulatory compliances. Developing mechanisms, methods and processes to identify, analyze, evaluate and mitigate business related risks and to protect the interests of the Company and the Stakeholders. Role as a Company Secretary : Managing and directing the activities of the secretarial services function; providing professional and strategic advice to the Chief Executive/s, and Senior Management; Acting as an effective advisor of Company’s senior management team; contributing to the preparation of draft circulars/ policies as required; instructing, and drafting briefing material for, external providers of legal services. Implementing and managing appropriate systems and processes for identifying, and monitoring changes to the Company’s obligations in a timely manner. Providing secretarial advice regarding the actions and measures necessary to secure/facilitate compliance with the aforementioned obligations. Role as a Data Privacy Officer (DPO) : Advising, Managing and regulating the compliance of Data Privacy laws. Aligning with the internal processes, laws and European laws with respect to Data Privacy for the company. Training employees and senior management periodically on the updates on Data privacy and its effects in the industry. Representing the company in various forums for impacting the significance of Data Privacy.
Draft, review, analyse and negotiate various IT Agreements comprising of Master Services Agreements, Vendors Contracts, Service Agreements, Reseller Agreements, MOU’s, Confidentiality Agreements, Statement of Works, Retainer and Immigration Agreements along with Teaming Agreements, Consortium Agreements, Software License Agreement for clients from various geographies. Have had expose to review contract and negotiate with clients globally. Drafting policies and supporting corporate functions like HR, marketing and third party vendors. Training Business functions (sales and service) on understanding legal scope. Bridging the gap between customers and business or management.