Shambhavi Roy

As the Contracts Manager and a member of the in-house legal team at L.E.K. Consulting, a global business strategy firm, I oversee contract management processes across multiple regions.

My work responsibilities within the legal function include, but are not limited to:

• - Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating an average of 500 to 600 non-reliance agreements for significant cases per quarter for the firm’s North American transactional projects.
• Administering the drafting, reviewing, editing, negotiating, and finalizing of internal and external client agreements, such as engagement letters, master service agreements, non-disclosure agreements, consultancy agreements, vendor agreements, and research and expert/advisory agreements, etc., for APAC (including Middle Eastern regions).
• Ensuring quality control in connection with standard legal and financial terms and conditions.
• Assisted in drafting hotel and marketing agreements consistent with firm policy.
• Managing the escalation of legal changes and negotiations to global contracts managers and regional counsel, as needed.
• Input contracts and possible conflicts data into internal databases for transactional projects (conflicts management system).
• Coordinating with internal project associates and internal stakeholders on data metrics in connection with contract dynamics and lifecycle management.
• Supervised and mentored new joiners, ensuring consistent application of best practices.
• Assisting others on the global legal team with other contract-related needs, such as privacy and terms of use, and release forms as necessary.

In this role, I ensured the effective delivery of a large volume of agreements, supporting operational efficiency, while collaborating with cross-functional teams and maintaining organizational standards across regions.

• Managed the contract management for a telecommunications company.
• Reviewed and drafted Master Services Agreements for telecommunication services (special construction, special pricing, and customer site additions).
• Gained proficiency in contract drafting, reviewing, negotiation, vetting, redlining, and extracting key clauses in the contract, processing, and delivery processes for the company, and using internal contract management tools.
• Assisted in training new hires and interns.
• Liaising with the stakeholders, sales, and third-party contractors and vendors for delivery processes.
• Handling the MIS reports and leading the engagement activities internally.

• Undertaking research and analysis on various legal aspects, I performed extensive contract abstraction with the ability to understand complex matters to help with the Contract Lifecycle Management Process.
• Updating and consulting with senior legal associates and managers with respect to legal processes.
• Suggesting measures for the enhancement of the in-house tool's efficiency.

• - Preparation and issuance of sanction letters, loan documents.
• Direct customer interaction and coordination, including negotiation with the customer in terms of documentation.
• Collaborating with the internal teams, including credit, product, and treasury, with respect to documentation clauses.
• Maintenance of MIS reports and tracking of records of existing companies for insurance policies, approval tracking, renewal due, renew in cum enhancement due, and deferrals pending.

Researched the important provisions of the trademark policies, Indian Copyright Bill, Berne Convention, Nigerian Copyright Bill draft, and U.S. Copyright Bill. I attended meetings with the team, and drafted the minutes of the meetings.

Researched the matters related to pari passu charges and, in the event of default of payments, priority in the absence of any inter-creditor agreements, registration of charges, circulars of the Reserve Bank of India on the assignment of debt, and the procedure to be followed for passing a special resolution under the Companies Act, 2013.

Making a brief of orders related to MahaRERA rulings.

Frequently attended proceedings in the Court of Sessions for Greater Bombay, the Court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate for Greater Bombay, and the High Court of Bombay. Learning court procedures, drafting applications, filing applications, serving notice, conducting legal research, and other miscellaneous work.

Assisted in drafting corporate loan agreements, legal due diligence reports, and mapping of sections. Researched on the S.87 of the Companies Act,2013 on condonation of delay and S.176 of the Contract Act,1872 on pledge of shares.

Legal research under various provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, and drafting of legal notices and replies.

Research on trademark classification, checking of trademark status, drafting of leave and license agreements, and extensive research related to Intellectual Property Rights.

Learning court proceedings and assisting in drafting legal notices, leave and license agreements, reply notices, and memoranda of understanding.