NISHTHA CHAKRABARTI

• Handled upto 15 client deployments in regulatory compliance management, contract management and litigation management for clients across various industries such as media, manufacturing, NBFC, ITEs, broadcasting.
• Assisted industry leaders manage there compliances, contracts and litigations across various domains such as radio and broadcasting, plywood manufacturing, wind turbine blade manufacturing, media, etc.
• Provided training sessions to several clients on compliance management, contract lifecycle management and litigation management softwares.
• Created content by breaking down compliances from various Indian as well as International laws across several modules such as labour and employment, environment health and safety, NBFC, Operational, Building and Infrastructure.
• Tracked domains across various modules like labour and employment, environment health and safety, NBFC, Operational, RBI, Building and Infrastructure to identify legal updates, notifications and amendments.
• Analyzed complex legal amendments and notifications across various modules like labour and employment, environment health and safety, NBFC, RBI and created summaries capturing important changes for our clients.
• Analyzed complex Indian laws to understand and draft their applicability for clients. For example to whom the law is applicable, whether the law is definitely applicable by virtue of client operations or if the applicability depends upon some criteria required to be asked to the client, whether there is any employee threshold for the law to become applicable.

• During the course of internship I was engaged in several tasks such as helping the team create a database of legal knowledge as well as annotating legal cases using an online tool.

• During the course of internship I was engaged in drafting several legal agreements such as indemnity bond, retainership agreement, agreement for sale of property and deed of conveyance by mortgagee.

• Examined several case briefs related to civil matters and writ petitions, assisted in drafting a plaint for matter pertaining to a suit for recovery of money, drafted an affidavit in opposition on behalf of the respondents in a writ petition and attended court proceedings and client counseling sessions.

Conducted research and prepared presentations on topics such as “Employee Provident Fund” and “The Procedure involved in a merger”.

• Conducted research and prepared presentations on various aspects of labour law.

• Assisted in several arbitration matters and was engaged in drafting due diligence reports and bank loan agreements.

• Examined cases, assisted and attended court proceedings pertaining to civil law and company law matters.

• Examined cases, framed arguments and attended court proceedings pertaining to criminal law matters.

• Conducted research and examined cases on cheque bounce and kidnapping and observed court hearings.

• Documentation of projects undertaken by the protection department, conducted a situational analysis of the Juvenile Justice system in India and went on a field visit to Murshidabad as a part of an ongoing project.