General Counsel
KKR
India
ACADEMICS:-
MBA in Consulting Management from SP Jain School of Management.
Lawyer from Lucknow University.
Engineer in Information Technology from Pune University.
Patent Agent with the Government of India.
Inventor of a patent titled ‘Automated Funds Management System’.
EXPERIENCE:-
16+ years in legal domain spreading across:-
1) Procurement Contracts – Drafting, negotiating, and summarising.
2) Contract Management – Review, summarisation, and actioning of contractual terms for vendor
and asset management contracts in a tool like ARIBA.
3) Intellectual Property – Drafting, prosecution, litigation and licensing.
4) Privacy, Information Security, & Cybersecurity – Managing employee and vendor based data
breach incidents, implementing Privacy regulations/policies in US, India, EMEA, and APAC
region.
5) Corporate Law – Labour, Taxation, Insurance, M&A, and Telecom among others.
6) Litigation Support – Damage assessment of claims, eDiscovery, and case assessment.
7) Risk Management – Forensics, fraud, and document review.
8) Legal spend management – Review of invoice, mapping of amounts to efforts, and processing payments via ARIBA & Legal Tracker.
9) Legal and Business Research – In domains like telecom, privacy, real estate, insurance, banking.
and annuity.
10) Derivatives, Retail and Institutional distribution, Funds, Brokerage, and Banking agreements –
Drafting, negotiating, & summarising.
KEY PROVEN STRENGTHS & SKILL-SETS:-
• Educate, present, influence, and thereby build credible and trusted business partnerships with
Government officials, ‘C’ level executives, and consultants among others.
• Optimum end client experience development.
• Re-engineer process flow maps as per diagnosed problems/bottlenecks.
• Business development and consultative selling.
• Develop high performance team set-ups.
• Promote innovative thinking and leadership environment.
• Work, lead, and complete projects with cross functional teams across international
geographies.
• Negotiating skills towards contractual terms & clauses, pricing, and scope of work.
• Host, speaker, and EMCEE at many professional and cultural seminars and events.
• Process transitioning from offshore locations.
• Executive summarisation of complex topics.