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Aritra Chaudhury

Legal Counsel
Mumbai,Maharashtra
Aritra Chaudhury

Summary

With around 10 years' of experience as a Legal professional. Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy, excels at:

1. Drafting, vetting and negotiating commercial agreements

2. Privacy related issues including GDPR

3. Legal Research.

4. Stakeholder management.

Overview

10
years of professional experience
13
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Ipsos
Mumbai

Associate Director Legal
09.2021 - 06.2023

Job overview

  • Assisted senior leadership in managing all aspects of operations.
  • Led teams of up to 3 personnel, supervising daily performance as well as training and improvement plans.
  • Reviewed proposed regulatory changes and evaluated potential impacts on business operations.
  • Reviewing and interpreting new or pending legislations and regulations impacting existing or proposed contracts to ensure
    compliance with applicable laws.
  • Negotiated contracts, proposed creative alternatives and protected company's position to mitigate risk.
  • Assessed and mitigated legal, reputational and business risks.
  • Communicating directly with customer/clients, vendors and participate in general business meetings, teams and projects as required to provide timely and effective legal advice.
  • Training relevant stakeholders on legal topics in accordance with
    company policies and compliance.

Maersk
Mumbai

Associate Legal Counsel
05.2017 - 09.2021

Job overview

  • Responsible for contract development, maintenance, tracking, analysis, compliance and administrative activities for key clients where relationship value exceed 100,000 USD.
  • Responsible for drafting and solidifying various contracts and other legal documents
  • Drafting, vetting and negotiation of various global and domestic commercial and procurement agreements including but not limited to Freight Forwarding, Customs Broking, Warehousing agreements and RFQ
  • Supporting and advising leadership in contract management/governance and potential legal risks
  • Reviewing and reporting obligations to ensure that responsibilities defined under contracts are met
  • Providing general legal support for various aspects of Maersk Line and Damco business including regulatory, compliance and general commercial advice and supporting business units across wide range of areas particularly industry-specific regulations.

White Clove Services Private Limited
Mumbai

Manager Legal and Compliance
11.2016 - 05.2017

Job overview

  • Conducted legal analysis and legal research on various legal matters of organization including Drugs and Cosmetics Act (including filing for Registration Certification under Form 42), Company law, Insurance law etc.
  • Drafted, vetted, negotiated and standardized commercial contracts (including Inter Company Agreements, LOI and Software Licensing)
  • Liaised with patent agents and assisted in filling applications for patents and copyrights
  • Assisted in development of policies on engagement contracting risk across all functions
  • Advised and supported other departments like client servicing, HR and Finance etc. on various legal matters.

Qui Prior Law Associates
Mumbai

Senior Associate (on Secondment to Vodafone India)
05.2016 - 11.2016

Job overview

  • Managed commercial contracts for Vodafone which also included legal advisory and general compliance, drafting of T&C's for various product and services offered.
  • Drafted, reviewed, redlined and negotiated variety of global commercial contracts like MSA (Telecom), Service agreements, SLAs, RFPs, SaaS, Procurement, Marketing, Roaming, IT contracts.
  • Standardized various contracts and documents.
  • Handled any ad-hoc queries relating to managed contracts.

Thomson Reuters
Mumbai

Senior Associate
10.2013 - 05.2016

Job overview

  • Created financial legal inventory (Jurisdiction - US and Canada) and categorized laws into clients Business areas and risk categories, then mapped relevant inventory accordingly
  • Researched regulations by reviewing regulatory bulletins and other sources of information
  • Compliance mapping and gap analysis project for an European global financial company, ensuring its investment banking, asset management, and wealth management groups comply with rules imposed by Dodd-Frank, SOX, GLB, SROs (FINRA, NASDAQ, NYSE), FCPA, AML rules, etc.
  • Independently managed 3 long term client projects.
  • Regulator monitoring project for an US based multinational financial institution which included legal research, tracking changes in regulation and notifying the client about recent amends to applicable laws.

Education

University of Calcutta
Kolkata

B.A.LL.B from Legal Studies
08.2008 - 07.2013

University Overview

St. Joseph's College (School Department)
Darjeeling

ISC from Science
04.2006 - 03.2008

University Overview

Don Bosco
Bandel

ICSE
04.2000 - 03.2006

University Overview

Skills

Legal Research

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Timeline

Associate Director Legal
Ipsos
09.2021 - 06.2023
Associate Legal Counsel
Maersk
05.2017 - 09.2021
Manager Legal and Compliance
White Clove Services Private Limited
11.2016 - 05.2017
Senior Associate (on Secondment to Vodafone India)
Qui Prior Law Associates
05.2016 - 11.2016
Senior Associate
Thomson Reuters
10.2013 - 05.2016
University of Calcutta
B.A.LL.B from Legal Studies
08.2008 - 07.2013
St. Joseph's College (School Department)
ISC from Science
04.2006 - 03.2008
Don Bosco
ICSE
04.2000 - 03.2006

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