Komal Patwari

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 5 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led international expansion across 40+ jurisdictions.
  • Managed significant M&A transactions including a $80M acquisition.
  • Built a high-performing global legal team from scratch.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with extensive experience in corporate governance and M&A.

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Skills

Core Skills

Corporate GovernanceM&aCorporate LawCompliance Management

Other Skills

Team LeadershipContract NegotiationConsumer LitigationsLabor and Employment LawInvestigationCompanies Act

About

Komal has 14 years of diverse experience across Indian & multi-national, listed & unlisted companies in regulated and unregulated sectors (FMCG, E-commerce in multi brand retail, Employer of Record, Fintech). •Building and leading a high performing global corporate team at scale overseeing all corporate affairs and governance strategies for our global footprint in APAC, MEA, and Americas (41 jurisdictions). • International expansion - setting up of entities in foreign jurisdictions, cross border restructurings, liquidations. • M&A/Fund Raising - end to end transaction cycle, review, negotiation and finalisation of transaction documents, due diligence. • Proactive and strategic advisory to Board/CXOs, Investor relations, extensive liaison with global service providers/auditors/regulators. • Played a central leadership role on org. compliance and HR policies, POSH/COBC investigations. • Led implementation of cosec automation and contract automation tools.

Experience

13 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 2 mos
Current Experience

Payoneer workforce management (formerly skuad)

2 roles

Director - Corporate and Governance

Aug 2024Present · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Head - Global Compliance

Apr 2022Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Built and led the high-performing global legal team from scratch (corporate and employment) in 3 years from 1 to 10 CS/lawyers.
  • Led international expansion and global corporate and employment compliances for 40+ jurisdictions in APAC, MEA and Americas - incorporations, liquidations, cross border restructurings, EOR licensing.
  • ▪︎ Played a central leadership role on corporate governance matters including board structures, shareholder reserve matters.
  • Managed the Cap Table and end-to-end ESOP under Singapore legal framework.
  • Led Series A funding of 6M USD and multiple cross border secondaries (2022-23) - Transaction documentation, board and investor management, regulatory filings.
  • Led 80M USD acquisition of Skuad by Payoneer through 100% share sale from 21 global investors (2024) - due diligence, closure of CPs, Transaction documentation, board and investor management, regulatory filings.
  • Post Merger Integration of Skuad with Payoneer (2025).
Team LeadershipCorporate GovernanceM&ACompliance ManagementContract Negotiation

Amazon

Corporate Counsel and Company Secretary

Sep 2015Aug 2021 · 5 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • SPOC legal partner for all verticals of Prione Business (enabling SMEs on Amazon) - review and negotiation of commercial contracts, real estate contracts.
  • Led end-to-end corporate compliances for Prione and Cloudtail - JV Board and Investor Relations with Catamaran and Amazon.
  • Led legal and compliance advisory to G&A functions - HR, Real Estate, Finance, IT. Built and implemented organisational policies, led investigations on employee matters.
  • ▪︎ Customer litigations management.
Corporate LawCompliance ManagementContract NegotiationConsumer Litigations

Itc limited

Company Secretary of a group company

Apr 2012Aug 2015 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Greater Kolkata Area

  • Core member of the team handling demerger of non-operating business of Wimco Ltd into ITC Limited
  • Core member of the team handling transition from applicable compliances under Companies Act,1956 to Companies Act, 2013 for ITC Ltd. and its subsidiaries/associates
  • SPOC for corp compliance advisory to foods business in ITC bangalore

Education

The Institute of Company Secretaries of India

Professional

Jan 2009Jan 2011

T M B University

M Com — Commerce

Jan 2007Jan 2012

Karnataka State Law University

Bachelor of Laws - LLB — Law

Dec 2015Present

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