Aug 2019 – Mar 2020 · 7 mos · Lucknow · Hybrid

• Led cross-regional contract review and analysis using the SAP/Ariba (Contact management tool), evaluating legal clauses, SOWs, POs, NDAs, and vendor/customer agreements across Europe, America, and APAC, ensuring compliance with HCL internal legal policies and standards.
• Negotiated restrictive clauses with stakeholders, customers, and partners to align contractual terms with mutual compliance, balancing business interests and legal risk.
• Utilized DocuSign to negotiate and finalize single-sided clauses with Sales, Finance, Delivery, and clients, safeguarding corporate legal interests.
• Reviewed, redlined, and negotiated multi-million-dollar complex technology contracts, including IT software services agreements, SaaS agreements, software licenses, SOWs, subcontractor agreements, and strategic alliance agreements.
• Advised senior executive management on critical contractual negotiations, regulatory compliance, and dispute resolution to mitigate risk and protect organizational interests.
• Provided legal support for RFP bid responses, ensuring contractual and regulatory compliance, drafting standard contract templates, and maintaining GDPR and privacy compliance standards.

Jun 2018 – Jul 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Implemented and optimized AI-powered contract review platforms (KIRA) to extract, analyze, and summarize metadata from complex commercial agreements, enabling rapid contract lifecycle management for SaaS, cloud, AI/ML contracts.
• Conducted end-to-end contract analysis and abstraction for US and global business agreements, supply chain documents, invoices, order forms, and SOWs, ensuring compliance with internal policies, GDPR, and other data privacy frameworks.
• Applied AI-driven clause classification and risk assessment to identify critical contractual terms, obligations, and potential liabilities, providing actionable guidance to legal, procurement, and business teams.
• Developed scalable workflows for AI contract automation, supporting new use cases, metadata extraction, and advanced analytics for high-volume agreements, enabling faster decision-making and operational efficiency.
• Delivered client-ready summaries and reports with accurate extraction of key clauses, commercial terms, and regulatory compliance insights, leveraging Excel and AI-enhanced dashboards.
• Partnered with cross-functional teams to integrate machine learning and AI solutions into contract governance, risk management, and compliance processes, driving innovation in contract lifecycle and legal operations.
• Supported strategic adoption of AI/ML/GenAI tools for legal transformation initiatives, demonstrating efficiency, accuracy, and risk mitigation in contract management, regulatory compliance, and multi-jurisdictional transactions.
• Monitored emerging AI, technology, and privacy regulations, providing proactive counsel on cross-border deployments, SaaS agreements, and cloud vendor contracts to mitigate legal and operational risks.

Feb 2017 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

• Managed end-to-end contract lifecycle management, including negotiation, drafting, review, and execution of complex commercial agreements across technology, SaaS, cloud, AI/ML, and vendor services.
• Supported contract formation and negotiation strategies, ensuring alignment with business objectives, regulatory compliance, and risk mitigation.
• Established and optimized contract compliance and change order processes, proactively coordinating with clients, internal stakeholders, and Legal teams to streamline operations.
• Provided strategic guidance on contract interpretation, obligations, and risk management, addressing complex inquiries and ensuring informed business decisions.
• Identified, escalated, and resolved contractual risks, disputes, and compliance issues, minimizing litigation exposure and protecting corporate reputation.
• Conducted in-depth research and analysis of contractual terms, regulatory requirements, and technology vendor agreements, ensuring global compliance (GDPR).
• Acted as a liaison between clients, business units, and Legal, facilitating seamless cross-functional collaboration and execution of high-value technology contracts.
• Developed and maintained strong vendor and client relationships, optimizing contractual terms and supplier performance while fostering strategic partnerships.
• Led the promotion and expansion of contract management functions, driving adoption of best practices, AI-enabled contract tools, and workflow automation to increase efficiency.
• Provided advisory support on complex contractual, commercial, and governance issues, recommending alternatives that protect organizational interests and maximize value.
• Delivered regular contract status reporting, compliance updates, and post-execution analysis, ensuring transparency and informed executive decision-making.

Jul 2015 – Jun 2016 · 11 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

Jun 2012 – Jun 2012 · 0 mo · Lucknow Area, India

• Research conducted on project relating to postion of women as to the female feticide offences committed against women in India on large scale and to find out ways and means for expeditious and summary disposal of cases in a quick and efficient manner.
• To enable the subordinate judiciary becoming more skilled, sensitive and responsible towards issues relating to women and gender justice.

May 2012 – Jun 2012 · 1 mo · Lucknow Area, India

• Study conducted on the aspects pertaining to empowerment of women rights in India and to promote the greater participation of women as leaders so as to enable them to play a positive and crucial role in realizing good governance mechanism and bringing about a transformative politics.
• To ensure that the women (and through their role, the men) councilors adopt affirmative and developmental actions to enable the women in poverty and marginalized groups benefit from mechanism of good governance.

Dec 2011 – Jan 2012 · 1 mo · Lucknow Area, India

• Detailed analysis a s to the position of rights of women working in cottage industries of lucknow as to how there enhancement of a large portion of the rural population of India.
• Role as the major contributor to the economy, and responsibility for preserving the cultural heritage of India.

Jun 2011 – Jun 2011 · 0 mo · Lucknow Area, India

• To provide free legal aid and competent legal services to the weaker sections of the society to ensure that opportunities for securing fair justice such that rights are not denied to any citizen by reason of economic or other disabilities.
• Working in the Legal awareness and Legal Literacy Camps, Departmental LokAdalats, LokAdalats for banking sector reforms were also organized to secure that the operation of the legal system promotes justice on a basis of equal opportunity in a congenial atmosphere.