Nilanjan Banerjee

Key Result Areas:

• Achieved YOY profit on equipment sales to leading Hospitals by increasing revenue margin by approx
• 30 percent while deleting potentially risky clauses from existing contracts during renewals through efficient contract drafting, convincing deliberations and closing contract negotiations with Client POCs
• Successfully closed large scale procurement contract deals for supply chain arrangements and vendors while ensuring reduction in expenses by 15 percent in Fy23 vis-à-vis FY22
• Providing business, the edge, by pre-empting its needs [foolproof agreements] via Litigation and Contract Management platform and working with external legal counsels/law firms on strategizing existing litigation, including rationalizing existing litigations
• Responding to critical regulatory notices received from relevant authorities with Zero impact on company without any further escalations
• Defending company position through legal notices drafted by me to delinquent HCPs and Hospitals for recovery of dues
• Sending legal responses to notices received from patients on product issues resulting in Zero claims going into further legal disputes
• Have been consistently acknowledged as the Trusted Legal Advisor for the business through Enabler of the Quarter awards received for Q1, Q3 and Q4 of FY22
• Implementing steps for Data Breach mitigation on Data Privacy aspects for PII data, legal advisory on medical devices regulated under Drugs and Cosmetics Act including other ancillary legislations, internal consultation on HR/Employment law matters, and all other legal matters
• Advising on legal issues and potential exposures through individual or Leadership group meetings, seminars or written opinions.

Highlights:

• Collaborated with business helping company win tenders for prestigious hospitals such as AIIMS, Delhi, AIIMS- Kalyani, Ministry of Defense- Gov of India, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Defense Hospital, Dhaka, Government of Bangladesh, etc.

Key Result Areas:

• Developed internal requirements and standards to minimize regulatory risks and liability across programs.
• Hired, managed, developed and trained legal team members, established and monitored goals, conducted performance reviews
• Analyzed and solved multi-faceted problems that effected executive leaders and business initiatives.
• Led a team of cross country lawyers and external consultants to draft, review and negotiate client contracts, new client MSAs/SOWs, NDAs and liaison with internal stakeholders to align the business with the legal risks which can be subsumed.
• Successfully closed multibillion-dollar client deals across the Financial Markets, Consumer and Digital Analytics and Automation service provider companies
• Helped eClerx participate and win RFPs and bids with global conglomerates by reviewing tender documents and tuning business proposals with client requirements.
• Lead counsel and contract lawyer for marque clients of eClerx group companies like PayPal, Soc Gen, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Standard Chartered Bank, ADIDAS and Comcast.
• Managed, reviewed and monitored end to end supply chain and procurement arrangements from RFPs to vendor segregation,
• Audited vendor compliance certification requirements as mandated under FCPA and global Anti Bribery statutes.
• Framed and institutionalized key templates and documentations for Data Sharing partnership agreements, Data Analytics, SaaS subscription agreements, software licenses with technology vendors and financial services customers.
• Rolled out a CLM platform for the organization to map, monitor, audit contractual obligations across top 20 revenue generating clients.
• Instrumental for winning the Golden Peacock award for client quality and service excellence.
• Planned, formulated and implemented Data Privacy policies, framework and sensitization across the organization for making GDPR ready prior to it being legally enforced in May 2018.
• Expert fraud investigator and enforcer of whistleblower policies & procedures.
• Ethics and Compliance Investigator for economic and fraud related offences; member of the ICC under POSH Act for sexual harassment complaints.
• Developed Audit & Risk Matrix to map and identify probable data breaches within IT network to mitigate exposure around loss of Personal Data processed.
• Advised the HRBPs across business units on employee disputes, employee related non-performance issues, redundancy cases, complaints of employee misbehavior and misconduct.

Highlights:

Played a key role in YOY slashing of Legal cost and expenses on External Counsels and Law firms for legal advisory, complex client deal negotiations and reviews with an overall reduction of 20 percent cost (data basis FY 19 vs FY 20 cost incurred for involvement of External Lawyers)

• Demonstrated leadership skills in managing projects from concept to completion.
• Reviewed and drafted contract agreements for clients while suggesting changes and improvements on contractual compliances.
• Performed Compliance Audits in customer locations within specific timeframes.
• Led a team of 14 lawyers to perform contract risk assessment as a part of the internal audit team across international clients in FMCG, IT/ITES, Pharma, Manufacturing and Oil and Gas sectors.
• Rendered legal advisory to clients on transactions, relationships and disputes and on implications of various legislations - Data Privacy (GDPR), OSHA, Labour, Payroll and Social Security laws and related compliances of US, UK, EU, Canada, ANZ, APAC and India

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• Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems.
• Led teams dedicated to Compliance Management, Contract Drafting and Negotiations, Due Diligence
• Acted as a Reviewer of draft Regulatory Inventories, and performed Audits on contractual obligations and clauses for clients as a commercial lawyer and corporate advisor.

• Compiled data and conducted research to draft legal documents for attorneys.
• Supported case preparation by interpreting laws, rulings and regulations.
• Refreshed IP Software databases and tracking systems.
• Rendered consultation support to clients on Intellectual Property Services and managed their IP Portfolio

• Managed administrative duties such as filing documents, scheduling meetings and tracking case statuses for the Hon'ble Judge.
• Investigated facts and laws to determine strategies for the final judgment delivered by the Hon'ble Judge
• Conducted legal research on law, providing thorough memoranda and drafting the first version of the judgment

• Received Smt. Saroja Gopalakrishnan Scholarship for LL.M. Students – endowment by Dr. Gopal Subramaniam, Additional Solicitor General, Government of India- for the duration of 2006-2008
• Awarded University Second Rank for LL.M program