Shyam Kumar Kudari
Bengalore
Summary
General counsel with 23 Yrs. blended exp from product MNC’s to startup’s global legal advisory in Tech, Privacy, Regulatory, Global Litigation & Contracting, M&A, PE and pre IPO
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Director – Legal [Global]
Simplilearn
12.2022 - Current
- Company Overview: Simplilearn, a Blackstone company, is the world's #1 online Bootcamp
- Managed global legal function of midsize team in midst of tough market conditions and emerging US regulations
- Manage global legal affairs of the group companies
- Provide counsel to the Board of Directors on complex regulatory matters, litigations etc
- Manage team of 5+ counsels including Co secretary
- Train, retain, develop resources & manage global legal budget and engaging external counsels
- Deliver contract support for Global B2B deals, B2G, Universities & OEM partnerships
- Work with Privacy & Engg
- Teams on implementing GDPR, US States privacy compliances on the global platform
- Manage group company’s global trademark portfolio & mitigate infringements
- Global marketing strategies, including content, social media & influencers engagements
- Identify and implement pre-IPO corporate governance, secretarial & FEMA compliance
- Exposure to PE transactions, potential acquisitions due diligence & shareholder purchase deals
- Exposure in cross border transactions, financing & payment gateways
- Manage cross border litigation, consumer disputes, commercial and non-contentious criminal matters
- Managed US class action, internal controls to mitigate further exposure and legal process
- Deliver B2C, commercial legal & regulatory support for India, US & Rest of the world markets
- Exposure in handling risks from cyber threat
- Manage risks for cyber threat & firsthand support in MM’s insurance claim process
- Legal solutions for brand & online reputation management, mitigate risks affecting company valuation
- Work with public policy team on dynamic legal & tech developments
- Scanning Global Edtech regulatory compliance
- Exposure to US employment practices in few states
- Extensive Regulatory compliance exposure for higher education in the US
Legal Head
Synchrony India [f.k.a GE Capital Retail Finance]
07.2015 - 08.2022
- First legal Head of the Indian affiliate of the separated entity
- Transitioned policies and did set up legal function for Synchrony India, extensively engaged US stakeholders
- Worked directly with Government of Telangana for speeding up ITES policy clarity after Telangana formation in 2017
- Negotiated and executed US$20MN 2.5Lakh SFT new site real estate project
- Negotiated largest advertising Station Naming rights deal of $5MN with L&T Metro rail for 10 year @ Hyd
- Resolved all legal hurdles in work from home for the call center & customer operations and enabled 100% business continuity
- Drove 100% leave compliance & enabled Synchrony to consecutively placed below 25 GPTW in India
- Managed statutory compliance for headcount from 1800 in 2014 to 7000 end 2022
- Drove robust readiness compliance for upcoming 4 new Labour Codes
- Drove compliance function for POSH, internal investigations
- Brief exposure to US bank laws compliance including CRA, FDIC, CFPB and OCC audits
- As Diversity & Inclusion Champion helped business to employ >150 people with disabilities
Legal Head-AVP
GE Capital Retail Finance
05.2014 - 07.2015
- Returned after 10 years as legal head
- Responsible for change management in HR, employment, contractual areas for smooth separation
- Experience in providing legal counsel on exit & transition into a separate legal entity
- This entity became Synchrony since 2015
Legal Head
Microsoft Corporation
05.2009 - 04.2014
- Legal Support for Licensing & Customer Contracts Negotiation:
- Lead Attorney for PAN India commercial channel sales and online
- Supported public sector, railways, DGS&D and State Govt’s sales through tenders, RFP and proposals
- Strong working exposure with licensing compliance
- Legal & contract negotiations support up to $1BN rev in B2B software OEM sales & licensing [over 3 years]
- Negotiated cloud services deals with large MMC’s, banks and developed SME on cloud & privacy
- Negotiated Microsoft’s first Cloud partnership to access SMB through Indian public sector telecom BSNL
- Negotiated MSN online portal business deal of $6MN for sales of advertisements in India
- Extensively counseled on customer contract negotiations, marketing strategy and anti-trust compliance
- Led sole legal support for enterprise, consumer and government sales business for consecutive 4 quarters in FY13 due to resource alignment
Legal Counsel
Dell India
06.2006 - 05.2009
- Established first contract management function for review of all forms of India sales contracts including review and response process to Government & DGS&D tenders
- Hired & trained team for supporting revenue of $400 MN
- Negotiations with more than 100 enterprise customers on master sales and consulting contracts
- Legal counsel in channel sales, branding and marketing, after sales support, product claims
- Supported Dell India factory setup including assembling operations, warehousing and supply chain
- Compliance of FDI policy
- Designed litigation process flow for effective handling of commercial litigation
- Handled pan India commercial litigation including out of court settlements ex: consumer disputes, cheating and collections
- Engaged panel of lawyers for handling
- Drafted from scratch end-to-end legal framework for Dell’s channel business in India
- 9 APAC countries online sales terms review at Dell
Software Contracts Negotiator
Xerox (Prev ACS Inc)
01.2005 - 05.2006
- Negotiated software contracts for Xerox, ACS Inc
- (now Xerox) for India & SEA region
- Negotiated with 40+ software OEMs across the globe for favorable licensing terms saving substantial license costs
- On boarded software contract negotiators from SEA, India with knowledge sharing and best practices demonstration
Executive – Legal
Igate Global Solutions Limited
03.2004 - 01.2005
Legal Consultant
GE Capital International Services
07.2001 - 11.2003
Independant Legal Practice
07.1999 - 07.2001
Education
LLB -
Osmania University
01.1999
PG Diploma - IPR
PG College of Law, Osmania University
01.2003
LLM - undefined
PG College of Law, Osmania University
01.2002
Skills
- Collaborative leadership
- Culture transformation
- Team management
- Policy development
Hobbies and Interests
Grade 8 Guitarist - Trinity College London, Founded Hyderabad In House Counsel Forum, D & I Champion, led People with Disabilities Network for 3 years employing 150, Probono for Govt partnerships for social impact
Training
- Microsoft India Collaborators Award 2013 for negotiating largest Dynamics deal with UADD, Govt of MP
- Microsoft India Collaborators Award 2012 for India Price Changes Project across Enterprise Products
- Microsoft Corp One HR Award, 2010, as SME in “global employment law for managers” for India module
- Manager Fundamentals, one year module in garnering skills in people management, 2012
- John E Murray Jr. sessions on evaluating Software Contracts Risks, Pittsburgh USA, 2004
- Probono legal counsel for startups, voluntary legal counseling for charitable and non government organizations
- Founded Creative Music Studio for music jamming and teaching.
- Listed in the ICCA Trailblazers coffee table book, India’s finest In-House Counsels, 2017
Critical Exp
- Global general counsel role with overall profit center legal experience -13 Yrs. & GCC/ITES-10 Yrs.
- Experienced in managing business issues across major jurisdictions
- Experienced in managing global legal issues & legal budget
- People management, hiring, retention, resources use in crisis
- Exposure to pre-IPO corporate governance readiness & risk management
- Exposure to cross border transactions & regulatory compliance
- Exposure to PE investor matters, acquisitions due diligence
- Post acquisition legal support & integration
- Legal support that directly contributed to business reputation & valuation
- Extensive experience supporting and managing CXO’s
Global Litigation, Privacy, IPR & Reputation Issues
- Extensive litigation experience in India across civil, consumer & criminal disputes
- Managed US [CA & MA] class action suits, discovery, depositions & out of court settlements
- UK litigation & mediation process
- Online reputation management & brand protection
- Managed global trademark portfolios
- Mapped global edtech platform for privacy compliance under GDPR, US and India laws
Global Business & Contracting
- Legal & contract negotiations support up to $1BN rev
- Global cloud customer deal negotiations at Microsoft
- First Dell India Sales Contracts Management team set up in 2006
- 5MN$ adv deal negotiated with Metro rail for 10 Yr. station naming rights
- In depth exp of commercial negotiations in B2B, B2G across globe
- Extensive global contracting & revenue Ops experience
- Min 1000 worldwide contracts reviewed
- Cross boarder contracting & negotiations
- Negotiated with 40 software OEM across globe for software inbound licensing
- In depth exp in global RFP’s
- Experience in US B2G contracts
- Factory set up experience & representing Dell to State Govt for incentives for local computer assembling
Employment & Labor
- Extensive experience in India employment practice and issues
- Exposure in dealing with employment claims across major States including CA, US
- Exposure to employee claims related to unpaid wages, discrimination & insurance claims in US
- Labor & Employment legal advice for >7000 Emp
Global compliance & regulatory
- Extensive experience in US higher education regulations
- Extensive exp in labor & POSH compliance
- Readiness compliance exercise for upcoming 4 new India Labor codes
- Corporate laws governance, ombuds & investigations
- Exposure to due diligence work on GE retail finance spinoff into NYSE listed separate entity
Legal Support for Channel Incentives & Marketing
- Legal counsel the strategies for Windows Phone Apps and Startup accelerators programs.
- Legal counsel on localizing global marketing programs to market Windows Phone, games in India.
- Trainings conducted for sales personnel on sales deals, FCPA, channel stuffing and antitrust compliance
- Structured end to end first Microsoft online rebate and incentive programs covering 600+ channel partners in India.
- Numerous appathons for Microsoft app store [including 1 scored in Guinness records]
- First Microsoft India accelerator program designed for startup’s incubation
Legal Support for India Development Center 2009 to 2011
- Labour & Employment support for >4000 FTE, disciplinary issues, POSH compliance.
- Developed global internal Manager training module for HR & worked with European law firm and HQ legal teams.
- Provided extensive legal clarity on “search business” for BING in India related to content and display of ads.
- Managed Yahoo search alliance India plan to attract talent under tight deadlines for developing Microsoft search business.
Timeline
Senior Director – Legal [Global]
Simplilearn
12.2022 - Current
Legal Head
Synchrony India [f.k.a GE Capital Retail Finance]
07.2015 - 08.2022
Legal Head-AVP
GE Capital Retail Finance
05.2014 - 07.2015
Legal Head
Microsoft Corporation
05.2009 - 04.2014
Legal Counsel
Dell India
06.2006 - 05.2009
Software Contracts Negotiator
Xerox (Prev ACS Inc)
01.2005 - 05.2006
Executive – Legal
Igate Global Solutions Limited
03.2004 - 01.2005
Legal Consultant
GE Capital International Services
07.2001 - 11.2003
Independant Legal Practice
07.1999 - 07.2001
PG Diploma - IPR
PG College of Law, Osmania University
LLM - undefined
PG College of Law, Osmania University
LLB -
Osmania University
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