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Sanya Ahluwalia

Sanya Ahluwalia

New Delhi

Summary

Dynamic legal professional with 6+ years of extensive experience, excelling in contract review, redlining and negotiation. Proven ability to manage client relationships and deliver results under pressure. Works effectively with business leaders to devise smart operational strategies and mitigate legal risks.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Legal Counsel

HH Global
09.2024 - Current
  • Engaged in reviewing and redlining of various MSAs, SOWs, NDAs, POs, Supplier Agreements etc
  • Drafted various legal notices and official emails on company letterhead in case of payment disputes with clients and vendors
  • Went on various negotiation calls with clients and suppliers to obtain favorable position and desired result
  • Reviewed various internal documents of HH Global, for example, sexual harassment policies, disclaimers on the HH Global website, any PR campaign-related notices and brand awareness notices for clients, etc.
  • Drafted internal legal documents like supplier escalation matrix and client escalation matrix for Americas region
  • Went to HH Global Prague office to see how the business works in real time, visited warehouses and factories to understand the functioning of the business and the nature of services
  • Selected for attending client meetings with business and sales team from legal department for pitching sales pitch to potential clients
  • Excellent at multi tasking of work and time management as the legal team is small, and the volume of legal requests is huge

Legal Consultant

Ernst & Young (EY)
10.2022 - 09.2025
  • Engaged in reviewing and redlining of vendor agreements, IT agreements, employment agreements, SoWs, MSAs, NDAs and exposure to working on CLM tools like ServiceNow.
  • Worked closely with EY UK and EY US legal team.
  • Engaged in contract negotiations and resolved contractual issues with clients and vendors
  • Liaising with internal stakeholders (Business, Finance and Taxation) to ensure timely closure of agreements and compliance advice.
  • Engaged in due diligence of vendor documentation.
  • Understanding and analyzing business requirements, spotting issues and proposing solutions.
  • Involved in CLM vendor assessment i.e. market study of CLM vendors and maintaining scorecards.
  • Engaged in a PMO project and handled execution of business transformation programme, monitored on-site project activities.
  • Direct Client engagement with positive feedback and gold rating.
  • Undertook EY initiative on ‘Contract Lifecycle Management analytics and implementation’ and received appreciation from leadership.

Legal Analyst

Invesco
01.2022 - 10.2022
  • Drafting, reviewing, redlining and negotiating Agreements like Vendor Agreements, Service Agreements, Customer Agreements and NDAs.
  • Drafted playbooks for NDAs and Vendor Agreements.
  • Engaged in Client communication and calls with US/UK attorneys and US General Counsels.
  • Handled and co-led a CLM project for choosing company’s go-to CLM tool.
  • Engaged in calls with business/operations teams during negotiations.
  • Assisted in drafted SOPs for practice areas.
  • Exposure to financial sector with filings and drafting work for US SEC (Mutual Funds filings, ETF filings, Portfolio Manager Holdings Reports, Senior Loan Funds).

Associate

United Lex
06.2021 - 01.2022
  • Working in contract management (Obligation management Services).
  • Engaged in capturing obligations from MSAs and SoWs, SLAs, Schedules etc.
  • Engaged in Contract Abstraction.
  • Preparing working sheets from an account and finalizing them through client calls and incorporating changes as suggested by the clients.
  • Direct engagement with clients on calls and over mails for discussing queries.
  • Engaged in peer QC.
  • Independently handling various accounts at a time and responsible for delivering them within the scheduled deadline

Associate

Integreon Managed Solutions
06.2020 - 06.2021
  • Engaged in contract review redlining and negotiation; worked extensively with Integreon Contracts team
  • Reviewed various MSAs, SOWs, lease agreements, Non-Disclosure Agreements
  • Performed QC and QA of contracts after the first line review
  • Worked on Data Breach matters and captured PII/PHI information on Relativity platform basis client playbook
  • Client engagement through emails and teams call for discussing internal queries

Associate

Trust Legal
06.2019 - 06.2020
  • Drafted and reviewed various contracts, LOIs, rejoinders, replies, response to reply, statement of claim, evidence affidavits, legal notices and trademark applications
  • Vetted various agreements like MSAs, Vendor Agreements, Engagement Letters for Clients
  • Appeared in various arbitrations and courts

Education

BA LLB (2014- 2019) -

Amity Law School Delhi (IP University)
08-2019

Schooling -

Springdales School, Pusa Road

Skills

  • Contract Review
  • Contract negotiation
  • Contract redlining
  • Legal Research
  • Client management
  • Legal drafting
  • Compliance review
  • Document management
  • Risk assessment
  • JIRA software
  • MS Office

Career Achievements

HH Global

  • Received “Great” rating from my manager during my first employee rating cycle
  • Received appreciation from leadership during my monthly meetings

Ernst & Young (EY)

  • Received gold star rating from on-site Clients
  • Appreciation letter received from leadership
  • Invesco
  • Received appreciation on my work from US General Counsel
  • Recommended for leading the legal operations in Invesco Kochi office by US General Counsel

United Lex

  • Appreciated by Clients for the quality of my deliverables
  • Handed over QC within 3 months of working in the organization.

Integreon Managed Solutions

  • Handed over QC and QA within 1 month of working in the organization.
  • Co-led a project and made POC for queries.

Timeline

Legal Counsel

HH Global
09.2024 - Current

Legal Consultant

Ernst & Young (EY)
10.2022 - 09.2025

Legal Analyst

Invesco
01.2022 - 10.2022

Associate

United Lex
06.2021 - 01.2022

Associate

Integreon Managed Solutions
06.2020 - 06.2021

Associate

Trust Legal
06.2019 - 06.2020

BA LLB (2014- 2019) -

Amity Law School Delhi (IP University)

Schooling -

Springdales School, Pusa Road
Sanya Ahluwalia