Corporate Counsel
Caterpillar
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :24 years, 4 أشهر
Lead Counsel for Real Estate, FSD, M&D, ICS, Treasury, Tax, Projects, M&As, Large Contracts, Procurement, IPSD, .LPSD, Rail, Mining, Compliance & Regulatory.
Group Company Secretary
Head of Corporate Legal affairs - litigation, M&As, Projects, Restructuring, Taxation, Customs, Regulatory, Compliance and corporate governance. Group Company Secretary
Head of Legal/ Secretarial functions of the Group.
• Negotiating and finalized PPAs, EPC contracts, SHAs, NDAs, JVs.
• Successfully completed 3 M&As - due diligence management, appraising Board on the risks discovered there from and strategizing mitigation of the same, negotiating with transferee promoters in fixing gaps, managing with Finance/ HR, the transition of takeover of assets/ management.
• Successfully closed 2 rounds of PE funding for the Group - due diligence management, corporate processes.
• Developed the Land Bank of the Group.
Legal/ Secretarial/ Compliance functions
Managing these functions across 14 Group Companies, providing support on all aspects of legal and secretarial issues.
Project Documentation for Kondpalli - Phase II Expansion
Project Documentation for various tender participation of LITL where LKPPL was the co-bidder
To lead the functions of Legal, Secretarial, Corporate Affairs, IPR & Insurance functions of the Company
• Developed Legal Compliance Management System, function-wise which was implemented across the NDDB group.
• Developed SOP for commercialization of technology for Dhara Vegetables and Oils Limited, one of the NDDB GROUP Company.
• Developed system for management of Intellectual Property for Trade Marks applications, search, registration, records maintenance.
• Developed system for management of agreements and contracts, maintenance of records related to the same.
• Successfully handled pollution case and human rights violation case at the High Court/ SHRC, AP.
• Takeover of a poultry company based in Delhi and a South African biotech company.
• Negotiating, drafting and vetting of various Agreements / Contracts and litigation matters.
• Providing legal opinions on various aspects of regulatory changes in pharma.
• Briefing advocates, senior counsels on various litigation and non-litigation matters
• Analyzing business and contractual issues, exploring alternatives to structure the deal or resolve the issue, and proposing solutions
• Improving risk management and planning.
Functional head of secretarial, compliance & corporate affairs, used to assist the Sr. Mgr - Legal in legal matters
• Independent in charge for all company law and other allied laws, compliance, etc.,
• Implemented the Corporate Governance Systems in the Company, which was adopted by the Hinduja Group. Was a member of the Corporate Governance Team of the Group, reporting to Mr. Y M. Kale, Group Presdient, Corporate Governance, Hinduja Group.
• Implemented in-house Share Transfer System and later, successfully, outsourced it.
• Handled the amalgamation of Gulf Oil India Limited with IDL Industries Limited.
• Served internal customers in legal matters, like giving advice on course of action, etc.,
• Conducted over 6 general meetings of the company where more than 3000 shareholders used to attend.
Assisting the Senior Partner in all corporate legal practice.