Assistant Manager Legal
Rak Bank
Total years of experience :10 years, 5 Months
I work on a daily basis as the Team-Lead for North Americas Contracts team at TIBCO, which is an IT Product and related services company with a range of SaaS and non-SaaS offerings / IT products and related services too. My duties apart from supervisory tasks include seamlessly providing legal-business solutions in terms of contract drafting, review and negotiation of contracts including but not limited to NDAs, MSAs, SOWs, Assignment Agreements, Assumption and Novation Agreement, Partner Agreements, Order Forms, Work Orders, Partner Due Diligence and related Compliance.
I also am responsible for ensuring facilitation, review, redlines as well as approvals for certain legal documentation in terms of compliance with North Americas and / or EU laws. For instance BAAs (HIPAA-HITECH), DPAs (GDPR), etc. and also assisting the team prepare for the Indian Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 (expected to be enacted soon and to have impact on all international businesses in India) on the basis of the Joint Parliamentary Committee recommendations.
Was leading the legal function of Dr. D. Y. Patil Pratishthan, i.e. Working on all of their Contracts; Employment issues, PF inspections and hearings, day-to-day working and disputes / litigation before the Labour Court; Working with the CFO’s office as well as that of the Campus Director to achieve common goals of the managing trust; training the students and faculty on prevention of sexual harassment as well as ragging, etc. through multiple sessions to avoid the risk exposure in relation to the same, etc.
Also, proud to legally advice the Chairman, Shri. Satej D. Patil, Minister of State (for Home, IT, Logistics, Veteran Welfare and Parliamentary Affairs) for Maharashtra State, in his political as well as educational endeavours and issues, which gave me unmatched experience in dealing with HNI’s including Hon’ble Minister as well as his colleagues in the government and business.
Working for and on behalf of TIBCO Software India Private Limited in the areas of company and business law, litigation and property transfer, including but not limited to:
• Examining, advising and preparing contract of sale for business related to consulting services and licensing for outbound software;
• Maintaining a record of the suppliers and partners and conducting compliance related checks on them;
• Raising issues and getting approvals from Solicitors, Attorneys, etc. in relation to compliance checks;
• Maintaining legal files;
• Assisting in conducting legal trainings;
• Assisting in upkeep of legal softwares;
• Analyzing, interpreting and preparing variety of legal documents;
• Confer with internal clients on a variety of legal matters;
• Supervise legal secretary and take the responsibility of some of her work;
• Ad hoc work on the basis of daily requirements.
As a Foreign Counsel, I worked on matters regarding all the practice areas of the firm, dealing with local and international clients and their legal issues and requirements on a regular basis.
Some notable work was as follows:
• Interviewing clients to determine the nature of issues, and receiving written information concerning cases from their in-house counsel.
• Interacting and interviewing clients to determine the nature of issues and accordingly advise and / or resolve their issues - with notable work in this regard being interacting and interviewing with Cannon Design in relation to their legal issues related to Kuwait government project/bids and interviewing and resolving issues related to a client's investment in a Private Investment Fund with Goldman Sachs.
• Assisting a Kuwaiti client with regards to its seed funding to a start-up in Egypt.
• Assisted a Kuwaiti client analyze its investments with TFO (The Family Office, Bahrain).
• Examining and advising on mortgage documentation - Most notable work being advising a Kuwaiti client with regards to the commercial mortgage-backed securities loan from Citigroup Global Markets Realty Corp.
• Also worked for financial international institutions, by advising on mortgage documentation for Kuwaiti borrowers - With the most notable work done in this respect being, advising Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG on their multi-million debt re-financing and re-structuring deal.
• Multiple work assignments in relation to Joint Venture arrangements in Kuwait.
• Preparing, examining and advising on contracts of sale for properties and businesses - Most notable work done in this respect being, advising Halliburton on their mammoth divestiture efforts for sale of their business arm in Kuwait.
• Preparing, examining and advising on and reviewing contracts for private clients, semi-governmental and governmental entities on a number of issues - For instance, helped a semi-governmental organization negotiate concessions related to individual-employee confidentiality obligations in the financial terminal services contract with Bloomberg.
• Maintaining client legal files.
• Supervising Law Clerks and Legal Secretaries for their work including various secretarial and billing related work and take responsibility for their work.
Worked in Advisory, Compliance, Dispute Resolution, Contracting and Due Diligence capacities with the core business team at Wipro, by mainly:
• Preparing, analyzing and interpreting a variety of legal documents including structuring, drafting and reviewing of reports, complaints, notices, etc. and other legal documents by Wipro’s clients, vendors, etc. for instance, two such notable documents that were prepared for Wipro were the standard operating procedure for client services requiring compliance with US export control regulations and directives and a draft ICP.
• Analyzing and interpreting SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission, USA) and SEBI (Securities and Exchange Bureau of India) disclosure requirements and co-operation, in relation to preparing a detailed report for key management stakeholders at Wipro.
• Issuing preliminary notices and replies on legal matters, in consultation with the Company’s external lawyers, wherever necessary.
• Assisting external lawyers, solicitors or attorneys to prepare cases for court and in internal investigations and undertaking research regarding the same.
• Preparing briefs for external lawyers, arranging witness preparation and attendance, and preparing and filing court documents.
• Interviewing internal stakeholders at Wipro to determine the nature of legal issues (actual or potential), and receiving written information from them concerning such legal issues as part of its corporate legal team in compliance and dispute resolution efforts.
• Negotiating the terms and conditions of, and exchanging, contracts of sale, etc. by drafting and vetting of appropriate legal documents for the same.
• Maintaining track of legal cases, in order to keep the senior management of the company updated with regards to important legal cases.
• Preparing, examining and advising on contracts of sale for properties and businesses including assisting on the potential acquisition target companies.
Apart from the above, I also have had the pleasure to intern during my student life with:
•Infosys;
•Sakal Media Group;
•Mr. Pashankar, an Advocate/
Dual Degree of B.S.L. LL.B.
Evening full time classes