PUNEET SINGH DHIR

Contract Management

• End-to-end contract management, drafting, vetting, and negotiating commercial contracts, Distributor/Dealer Agreements, NDA, SOW, MOU, Vendor, Service and Consultancy Agreements
• Mitigated business risks by analyzing contracts' potential impacts and avoiding unfavorable terms.
• Structuring and formulating Contract Management Policy, templates, and maintaining Contract repository

Litigation Management & Advisory

• Formulating strategies on effective handling of litigation. Handling Commercial Suits, IPR Matters, Arbitration, Mediation, Criminal matters.
• Briefing Senior Counsels and formulating strategies with Advocates to ensure favorable Court orders
• Analyze legal implications & advising internal stakeholders and management on various risks involved on day to day business transactions

Intellectual Property Rights

• Coordinating with Counsels (Domestic and International) on timely filing of applications and oppositions for registration of IPR. Maintaining a repository on registered IPR (International and Domestic)
• Partnered with colleagues in litigation to handle intellectual property claims.

Policy Management

• Drafting, reviewing and amending HR and Business commercial policies including the POSH policy, Code of Conduct etc.
• Active member Internal Complaint Committee (ICC)

Project Management

• Implementing Compliance management tool, and various other tools, coordinating with external vendors for formulating structure

Litigation Management & Advisory

• Advising and training teams on handling customer complaints, addressing legal notices and formulating strategies on effective pre-litigation settlement with customers
• Advising stakeholders on risk mitigation
• Effective handling of litigation across North and West India filed against KIA Motors, coordinating with external counsels and ensuring timely compliance of court orders
• Creating a pool of law firms to be engaged for handling litigation Pan India, vetting replies, documents and applications filed in Court

Contract Management

• Drafting and vetting of agreements, MOU’s, LOI’s, NDA’s, Service Agreements, Lease Agreements, Dealership Agreements, and Engagement Letters

Policy & Standardization

• Introduced Litigation & Legal Notice Management Policy, formulating standard operating procedures on effective handling of consumer litigation, creating templates for Complaint mechanism

Litigation Management

• Coordinating with Senior Advocates, law firms and Advocates across North India for effective Litigation management
• Attending Conferences and briefing Senior Advocates in Key Litigation and high stake matters
• Monthly tracking and preparing Data analysis of key litigation, compliances of orders, customer service/sales related issues
• Conducting Knowledge Management sessions for various businesses on SOPs, processes, court procedures, key amendments etc.

Drafting & Vetting

• Contracts, legal opinions and advice on regulatory affairs and critical issues associated with various businesses, vetting of Plaints, Agreements, Writ Petitions, Appeals, Legal notices etc.

• Specialized in Commercial Arbitrations both international and domestic. Represented clients in Ad-Hoc and Institutional Arbitrations, Criminal Matters, Writ Jurisdiction, Consumer Matters, Negotiable Instruments before Delhi High Court, District Courts across Delhi, National Commission, Debt Recovery Tribunal and various other Tribunals.

• Associated with the Chambers of Mr. K. K. Manan, Senior Advocate and Mr. B.S. Dhir, Delhi High Court. Representing clients before various Courts across Delhi. Drafting Plaints, Writs, Appeals, applications as per Code of Civil Procedure, Agreements, Summary Suits, Consumer Protection Act, Family Laws, Recovery Suits and Negotiable Instruments Act.