Assistant Vice President Legal
Velocity Ventures
Total years of experience :20 years, 4 Months
• Currently involved in drafting, vetting and reviewing of documents relating to Third Party and Fourth Party Logistics
• Distribution, Lease and Service Provider Agreements
• Mortgage and charge creation
• Dealing with Dubai land department
• Labour cases
Responsible for providing Legal Support for India Operations
•Developed Frameworks for Artwork Management and Established Proper Compliance Mechanism for Legal Metrology Act
•Conducted training & awareness sessions on policies & procedures for Artwork Management and IPR.
•Standardization of Documentation Systems, SOPs, Process Flows (Eg : Credit Policy, Litigation Policy, KYC for Appointment of Customer, General Terms and Conditions for Purchase Orders)
•Developed an IPR Management System: Mitigated the Risk of any Third Party IPR Infringement by the Company through Searches, Infringement Analysis, Comprehensive Search Reports and Maintaining an IPR Bank etc.
•Effectively Attacking Third Party Infringement Cases for protecting the IPR of the Company
•Drafting, Vetting and Negotiating various Documents and Contracts of the Company with Third Parties and effectively mitigating the risk
•Facilitating Recovery from Customers of the Company through Litigation: Summary Suits, Money Recovery Suits, and Applications under Section 138.
Contract Mapping and Contract Management : Responsible for Vetting, Negotiating International Tender Documents with Third Parties, Supply-Purchase Documents
•Part of the Risk Assessment and Risk Management Team
•Responsible for Compliances of Contract Obligations
•Establishing Statutory Compliance Mechanism
•Introducing all policies and setting up of effective Compliance (including Compliances under UK Anti-Bribery Act
Responsible for Contract Management which includes vetting, assessing risk, reviewing, drafting negotiating Contracts/Agreements (EPC, On-Shore, Off Shore, Service Level Agreements, Strategic Partnership Agreement, Software Licensing Agreement, Purchase Agreement, Non-Disclosure and Non-compete Agreement)
•Drafting & Vetting of Deeds & Documents which includes Deed of Hypothecation, Memorandum of Articles, Deed of Trust
•Monitoring the Compliances which includes Secretarial, Statutory as well as SOX Compliance, US FCPA, identifying and reporting the Non-Compliances for 10 units of the Company to the Senior Management & involved in Due Diligence activities
•Assisting the Company Secretary
•Providing in-house opinion.
Drafting Vetting Banking Consortium Documents for Leading National & Private Banking Institutes. The exercise involved drafting of Consortium Agreements, Inter se Agreements, Joint Hypothecation Agreement and the like.
•Drafting of Lease Deeds, Sale Deeds, MOUs and various other Agreements;
•Conducted searches of Title Deeds for various leading Real Estate Companies. The exercise involves conducting of Title Searches in the offices of Registrar of Assurances, Sub-Registrar and also Court Searches and Searches in the Municipal Offices and thereafter preparation of Search Report.
•Attended Arbitration matters in High Court
Responsible for Consumer Protection Matters and Section 138 Cases.
•Responsible for imparting Training on Legal Awareness to entire Eastern Zone
•Dealt with Land Acquisition Matters
•Agreement & Contract Drafting
•Maintained the MIS & Contingent Liability List
•Assisted Senior Advocate
•Dealt with Service Matters, Medical Negligence Cases etc.
•Developed a Clientele : M/s. Suraksha Hospital, M/s. AMRI Hospital, etc
Did my honours in English literature and LLB thereafter.
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