Overview

Work History

ACCOLADES, CONFERENCES AND EXTRA CURICULAR ACTIVITIES

Timeline

NIHAL SINGH PABADEE

Mumbai

Overview

years of professional experience

Work History

Lead NBFC (VP-Legal and Compliance)

Equentia Financial Service Private Limited

12.2021 - Current

Dynamic role encompassing strategy, advisory, policy development, drafting, and negotiation. Responsible for leading transactions and overseeing key functions such as team building, infrastructure development, and contract management. Central to managing inter-team dependencies, providing essential support, and maintaining records. Served as a key resource for regulatory authorities, founders, senior leadership, and various teams, offering guidance on critical issues and inquiries.
Responsibilities:
(1) Key Transactions:
(a) Contributed significantly to the company’s growth journey, playing a key role in the expansion of the AUM and lending book size, supporting the achievement of substantial growth milestones.
(b) Successful closure of documentation for partnering with and/or on boarding various financial partners, firms, service providers and such other third parties.
(c) Ensured the prompt, successful, and seamless completion of documentation and due diligence processes, along with accurate and timely pre, during, and post-compliance activities for equity raises.
(2) Infrastructure Building:
(a) Spearheaded the comprehensive revision of all existing documentation and the creation of new infrastructure to support the company's diverse product offerings. This included products such as term loans, invoice discounting/financing facilities, working capital demand loans and such other products.
(b) Led the formulation and establishment of various policies and processes aimed at process optimization and improvements across multiple teams
(c) Improving business/operational efficiency by:
(i) Periodic GAP analysis for all documentation of all products, policies, charters, compliances and processes from time to time to build in robust platform.
(ii) The development of detailed process notes for each product, identification of internal dependencies, and establishment of clear turnaround times (TAT)
(3) Knowledge Sharing and Advisory:
(a) Facilitated periodic training sessions for cross-functional teams on relevant topics, regulatory updates, and process enhancements, ensuring consistent knowledge sharing and alignment across the organization.
(b) Provided legal advisory support to management on matters ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations, and contributing to informed decision-making and reinforcing organizational processes.
(4) Team Structuring and Grooming:
(a) Built a high-performing team by recruiting a diverse mix of qualified professionals and fresh talent, ensuring that quality standards were upheld from the outset and setting a high benchmark for work performance.
(b) Conducted comprehensive training and knowledge transfer sessions for each team member upon joining, ensuring they quickly adapted to the company’s pace and culture.
(c) Held regular meetings to assess progress, provide guidance, and help team members prioritize tasks based on the company’s evolving needs.
(d) Fostered a culture of transparency, actively involving team members in decision-making processes, which enhanced ownership, accountability, and commitment across the team.

Vice President (Head)

Vivriti Capital Private Limited

03.2019 - 12.2020

Multi-faceted role of a strategist, advisor, policy maker, drafter and negotiator for Vivriti Capital Private Limited. Reported directly into the founder(s) of the company and was the spearhead for all transactions and aspects of building the team, building the infrastructure, contract management, addressing all inter team dependencies/providing requisite support, contract management, record management, conducting committee and board meetings and advisory and knowledge sharing. Established myself as a key contact for regulatory authorities, founders, senior management and other teams (of the company) to approach for discussing and seeking advice on substantive issues and questions.
Responsibilities:
(1) Key Transactions:
(a) Successful closure of first Annual Reserve Bank of India audit of the company.
(b) Ensuring quick, successful and smooth closure of due diligence and accurate and timely pre, during and post compliance for equity raise of INR 350 cr.
(c) Successful completion of registration of trust (“fund”) with SEBI for the company’s asset management subsidiary.
(d) Successful closure of documentation for partnering with and/or on boarding various financial partners, firms, service providers and such other third parties.
(2) Infrastructure Building:
(a) Responsible for revamping all the existing documentation used and building new infrastructure for all the products being offered by the company, the company’s online debt platform and the company’s asset management subsidiary. This included products such as term loans, listed and unlisted non-convertible debentures, multi borrower credit enhanced loans, bill discounting, vendor discounting and such other products.
(b) Responsible for constituting and framing various policies and committees to: meet regulatory requirements, identify and improve processes across teams.
(c) Improving business/operational efficiency by:
(i) Automation of Board and Compliance process for the company and the company’s asset management subsidiary for ensuring timely filings, intimations and compliances with regulatory bodies.
(ii) Prepared checklists and manuals for each regulatory compliances including process notes product wise, identifying internal dependencies and defining TAT.
(iii) Periodic GAP analysis for all documentation of all products, policies, charters, compliances and processes from time to time to build in robust platform.
(d) Prepared detailed process note for board and committee meetings for ensuring smooth conducting of meetings.
(3) Knowledge Sharing and Advisory:
(a) Started a newsletter for sharing regular updates with the founders, senior management and other teams of the company.
(b) Conducted periodic training sessions for other teams on relevant topics, updates, processes.
(4) Team Structuring and Grooming:
(a) Build the team by hiring a mix of qualified professionals and company secretaries and fresher’s for ensuring quality standards of the company and ensuring standard of work is set high, right from the early stages.
(b) Extensive training and knowledge transfer sessions with each member of the team from the date of joining to make certain of the fact that they come up the curve to catch up with the speed and culture of the company.
(c) Regular meetings to take stock and help members prioritize work basis company’s requirement.
(d) Maintained high level of transparency and encouraged members to be involved in almost all decision-making leading to better ownership and commitment from each member.

Group Manager (Band I)

Bharti Airtel Limited (Corporate Office)

04.2016 - 03.2019

As a group manager, I had been equipped with the independence in decision making, managing, nurturing and supervising the other teams in Bharti Group companies situated globally across India, South Asia and Africa on corporate, compliance, liquidity, banking and trade finance matters.
Responsibilities:
(1) Responsible for providing documentation and advisory support to the Group Treasury Team (of Bharti Airtel Limited) for managing:
(a) Forex exposure of entire Bharti Group across India, South Asia and Africa, which includes advising, drafting, vetting and negotiating agreements, terms and conditions including ISDA Master Agreements, Forex Master Agreements, Forex Terms and Conditions with domestic and international Banks.
(b) Working capital and liquidity requirements of Bharti Group companies situated globally, which includes advising drafting, vetting and negotiating various transaction & security documents including advising, drafting, vetting and negotiating agreements for short term loans, rupee term loans, working capital loans, issuance of commercial papers and non-convertible debentures and various security documents including documents related to mortgage, guarantee and hypothecation with domestic and international Banks and coordinating with domestic and international firms and external counsels.
(c) Global debt operations (including condition precedents, condition subsequent and covenants) for credit facilities availed by all Bharti Group companies (situated globally) from domestic and international Banks, which includes advising, drafting, vetting and negotiating letters, declarations and certificates.
(2) Responsible for providing contracting support to other teams in Bharti Airtel (Corporate Office) and other teams of Bharti Group Companies (situated globally) such as structuring of transactions, ideating and providing intra group liquidity requirements, advising Human Resource (“HR”) Team on employee related issues, reviewing, drafting, vetting and negotiating agreements, contracts, deeds, terms and conditions including CMS terms and conditions, sponsorship agreements, lease deeds, shareholders agreements, non-disclosure/confidentiality agreements, fax indemnities, counter indemnities (for bank guarantee limits availed by Bharti Group companies from Banks/Financial Institutions), deeds of release, consent letters.
(3) Management (Advisory and Documentation):
(a) Drafting and standardizing agreements for short term loans, working capital loans and shareholders loans.
(b) Drafting and standardizing ISDA Schedule (related to the ISDA Master Agreement) to be used by Bharti Group companies (situated globally) for foreign exchange transactions.
(c) Drafting and standardizing USAGE SMS ALERT terms and conditions.
(d) Preparing memoranda of recommendations and research notes on points relevant for banking and finance industry (including the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 sought by Ministry of Corporate Affairs).

Manager (Band II)

ICICI Bank Limited

06.2010 - 04.2016

As a team lead, I have been equipped with the independence in decision making, managing, nurturing and supervising the team in corporate, realty funding, retail, rural, banking and trade finance matters.
Responsibilities:
(1) Corporate and Commercial Banking Transactions
(a) Advisory:
(i) Permissibility and mechanism of creating security over development rights of immovable property;
(ii) Integration and compliance with provisions of the Companies Act, 2013;
(iii) Opining on NDU-POA structure for pledge of shares;
(vi) Transactions and documentation for bill discounting and channel finance.
(b) Negotiation and documentation
(i) Drafted composite documents encompassing facility and security terms;
(ii) Liaised with multiple departments to draft and negotiate term sheets for rupee term loans, ECB’s, project finance, consortium etc;
(iii) Reviewing and negotiating documents in consortium lending;
(iv) Agreements for agency services such as collection of payments/cheques, net banking gateway, online payment aggregator;
(v) Negotiating and drafting escrow agreements, SBLC and counter bank guarantees, pledge agreements, deed of hypothecation, indenture of mortgage, security trustee documents and related transaction documents.
(2) Project Finance Transactions (road and education projects)
(a) Advisory
(i) Reviewing concession agreements and the negotiating term sheet;
(ii) Advising security structure viz equitable assignment;
(iii) Reviewing waterfall mechanism for cash flow to ensure re-payment;
(iv) Advising security structure for education projects qua charge on security interest – its viability and enforceability;
(v) Advising on invocation of Right of substitution;
(b) Negotiations and Documentation
(i) Drafting and negotiating facility agreements, substitution agreements, sponsor support agreements, deeds of adherence / accession.
(3) Debt Restructuring
(i) Drafted, vetted and negotiated various documents for sell-down of loans, assignment of debts, and other exit options from loan exposures, including debt asset swap and assisting with the modalities of release of securities.
(4) Research and Miscellaneous
(i) Prepared research notes on points relevant to the banking and finance industry.

ACCOLADES, CONFERENCES AND EXTRA CURICULAR ACTIVITIES

(1) Became a member of Delhi Bar Council in May, 2011 (My membership number is D/626/2011). (2) Received a Letter of Appreciation (on June 14, 2015) from Ms. Chandha Kochhar (MD and CEO of ICICI Bank Limited) appreciating my spirit and dedication towards my duties and responsibilities and my contribution towards the growth of ICICI Bank Limited. (3) Received a Certificate of Appreciation from Mr. Nilanjan Roy (CFO of Bharti Airtel Limited and Group Treasurer of Bharti Group companies situated globally) acknowledging my contribution towards “Issuance of 1st ever Non-Convertible Debentures for Bharti Telecom Limited”. (4) Received a Certificate of Appreciation from Mr. Nilanjan Roy (CFO of Bharti Airtel Limited and Group Treasurer of Bharti Group companies situated globally) acknowledging my contribution towards “Issuance of Airtel’s 1st listed unsecured Non-Convertible Debentures”. (5) Received a Certificate of Appreciation from Mr. Ram Kewalramani (Co-Founder and Managing Director) and Mr. Nirav Choksi (Co-Founder and CEO) acknowledging my contribution towards the successful closure of the first trade deal with Reliance. (6) Received a Certificate of Appreciation from Mr. Ram Kewalramani (Co-Founder and Managing Director) and Mr. Nirav Choksi (Co-Founder and CEO) in recognition of my high levels of commitment and accountability.

Timeline

Lead NBFC (VP-Legal and Compliance)

Equentia Financial Service Private Limited

12.2021 - Current

Vice President (Head)

Vivriti Capital Private Limited

03.2019 - 12.2020

Group Manager (Band I)

Bharti Airtel Limited (Corporate Office)

04.2016 - 03.2019

Manager (Band II)

ICICI Bank Limited

06.2010 - 04.2016

NIHAL SINGH PABADEE

Overview

Work History

Lead NBFC (VP-Legal and Compliance)

Vice President (Head)

Group Manager (Band I)

Manager (Band II)

ACCOLADES, CONFERENCES AND EXTRA CURICULAR ACTIVITIES

Timeline

Lead NBFC (VP-Legal and Compliance)

Vice President (Head)

Group Manager (Band I)

Manager (Band II)

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