Sep 2022 – Nov 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos · Pune District, Maharashtra, India

• Draft, review, negotiate, and help execute legal agreements related to JCI’s digital offerings and related technology transactions such as cloud/SaaS agreements, software licensing arrangements, professional service agreements, and IP partnership agreements and related NDAs, SoWs, RFP responses and the like.
• Assist with the creation and improvement of JCI’s global tech contracting ecosystem to enable global sales JCI’s digital, cloud based and connected product offerings.
• Drive digital product readiness compliance through tight integration with the development process.
• Enforce digital deal compliance efforts by assisting with reviews and audits of booked documents.
• Interacting with stakeholders (internal/external) worldwide (e.g., EU, US, China, Singapore) and in India
• Become an integral members of digital team that values training its team to be high performing technology transactions practitioners.

Nov 2018 – Sep 2022 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Legal support to Europe region procurement contracts, Meeting and Travel Business unit for MEA, Europe and APAC region. Worked as a primary and back-up resource for APAC and MEA region for procurement contracts.
• Worked as a process owner for OSS.
• Review, drafting and negotiation of procurement contracts including few complex agreements (Master Supplier Agreement, Affiliate Participation Agreement, Software License Agreement, SaaS Agreement, Novation Agreement, Software Schedule, SOW, Amendment etc.) with technology partners, financial institution, auditing institutions, telecom service providers etc.
• Collaboration with business, sourcing, compliance, data privacy, finance, tax, and information security teams and provide legal support and guidance related to the procurement contracts.
• Preparation of internal playbook and process documents relating to the procurement contracts.
• Coordination with all internal stakeholders to keep and ensure the agreements are in compliance with Mastercard internal policies and procedures.
• Manage all day-to-day review requests in coordination with colleagues.
• Training to the new team members about the internal practices and guidance

Feb 2016 – Nov 2018 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Pune Area, India

• Provided diversified legal assistance in Software Development and Maintenance services, Managed Services to organizations.
• Contract drafting, review & vetting ( Master Service Agreement, Software license agreement, Technical Services Agreement, Purchase Agreement, Teaming Agreement, Sales Agreement, Vendor Agreement, Statement of work, Letter of intent, Purchase Order, Partnership agreement, Consultant service agreement, Consortium agreement, Non-disclosure agreement, Memorandum of understanding, RFP &Tenders, Lease deed, Power of attorney, Bank Guarantee, Parent company guarantee Indemnity bond,
• Employment agreement, Novation agreement, Escrow agreement, Change orders etc.)
• Contract Negotiations
• End to end contract Management
• Risk Assessment
• RFP grading and negotiations
• Training and mentoring
• Mergers & Acquisition support
• Participate processes, policies and procedures designed to reduce legal risk.

Sep 2011 – Feb 2016 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Pune

• Handled responsibility as a Lead Associate for Compliance management project dealing in US financial and Credit regulations.
• Vetted and red-lined Lease and property management agreement of parties signed between them and their clients.
• Red-lined Non-Disclosure Agreements.
• Had experience as a Lead Associate for various Contract Management- Abstraction, Drafting, Summarization, Negotiation projects.
• Had experience in research projects in Lexis-Nexis and Westlaw.
• Took training for various projects.
• Team management.
• Assigned quality check for various projects.
• Deviation mapping.
• Handled various tools like CMS, Westlaw, Lexis.
• Had Experience of dealing with various Litigation Projects like Construction, manufacturing, Research, Software- Copyright Infringement.

Jun 2009 – Aug 2011 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Pune

• During Practice handle various kinds of sale deeds and Negotiable instrument matters.
• Having experience of drafting in various civil and criminal nature matters.