Siddharth Rao
Summary
Legal Professional with over 12 years of diverse work experience in Litigation Management including discovery phase, Contract Lifecycle Management, reviewing contractual documents, Legal Research and Team Management with a demonstrated proficiency in cross-functional collaboration.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Team Lead, Litigation and Investigation Services
Proxiio Global Solutions Private Limited
Gurugram
11.2023 - Current
- Assisting in strategy development to increase team productivity and improve customer service levels.
- Ensuring compliance with company policies and procedures throughout the team.
- Supporting the management in developing plans for future projects, initiatives and objectives.
- Preparing playbooks for reviewing contractual obligations and drafting standard responses.
- Training the junior resources on review guidelines around MSAs, NDAs, SOWs, Amendments.
- Created mock projects for resource engagement and training purposes.
- Assessing performance and providing the relevant feedback to the team members.
Senior Manager - Contracts
Mind Merchants Global Private Limited
Gurugram
01.2023 - 10.2023
- Developed and implemented strategies to improve operational efficiency, reduce costs, and increase productivity.
- Managed a team of 10+ employees by providing guidance, setting goals and objectives, delegating tasks, and monitoring performance.
- Mentored junior staff in the organization's business processes, customer service standards, and quality assurance protocols.
- Identifying key risk areas in the contractual documents such as Master Services Agreements, NDAs, SOWs etc. and recommending mitigation steps to the internal stakeholders.
- Created detailed reports on project progress for senior management review.
- Collaborated with cross-functional team members to build and execute development plans.
- Inspected completed work to drive quality, timeliness and company standards.
Senior Consultant - Legal
SirionLabs
Gurugram
06.2022 - 01.2023
- Reviewing commercial drafts such as Confidentiality Agreements, Services Agreement, Vendor Agreements, Statement of Work, Work Orders and subsequent amendments, attachments, exhibits and addendums
- Reviewing commercial contracts for validating critical terms and risks associated with the non-compliance of deliverables and obligations
- Addressing contractual queries from the internal stakeholders and providing clarity on contractual clauses.
Senior Contract Attorney
Cacti Legal Services LLP
Gurugram
12.2021 - 06.2022
- Primary work includes reviewing and abstracting various commercial contracts such as Master Services Agreements, Consulting Service Agreements, Subscription Agreements, Vendor Contracts, SOWs, NDAs and subsequent amendments, attachments, exhibits and addendums
- Preparing trackers, obligation mapping, summaries for information on the risks and obligations.
Team Lead
Elevate Services
Gurugram
12.2019 - 11.2021
- Worked as a contract review attorney for the Contracts Management division in the company
- Experienced in contract management, reviewing of contracts, drafting, and abstraction of contracts
- Experienced in reviewing commercial contracts, NDAs, LOI, SOWs, other ancillary documents and subsequent amendments, attachments, exhibits and addendums
- Experienced in managing all aspects of designing, planning and implementing multiple, concurrent litigations, and government investigation document reviews
- Supported clients on strategic EDD and document review solutions, and document review process
- Experienced in managing project pricing estimates, documentation, project metrics and status reports
- Managed budgets, billing, project expenses, selecting and administering review teams, crafting project workflows, vendor coordination, and developing and executing multiple levels of quality control to ensure the delivery of quality work product.
Team Lead
Pangea3, Thomson Reuters
Noida
07.2011 - 11.2019
- Worked closely with the legal and procurement department to minimize legal risks in the contractual documents, providing recommendation on mitigation of allocated risks.
- Managed document review projects on various complex matters related to FX pricing, class action suits, antitrust government investigations etc.
- Managed and worked with the internal operations team to ensure the requirements and timelines are met with.
- Experienced in identification and management of issues and risks, performing quality control and assurance of project data prior to sending out the deliverables.
- Acted as subject matter expert for eDiscovery projects.
- Experienced and mentoring and coaching new resources on all aspects of the document review projects.
- Responsible for sharing daily/weekly/monthly review status report, release emails, queries/calibration logs with the customers.
Litigation Associate
Advocate Sudhir Gupta (a leading Trial Court and High Court lawyer in Delhi)
07.2010 - 03.2011
- Experienced in litigation matters involving Consumer cases, drafting of matrimonial complaints and matrimonial settlement, motor accidental
claims, and complaints under the Negotiable Instruments Act.
Education
B.A.LL.B -
IME Law College
07.2010
Skills
- Proficient in multiple review tools, including Relativity, DocuMatrix, OmniX, Ringtail, Everlaw, Kroll, JIRA, Bugzilla and Viewpoint
- Proficient in Research and Proof Reading
- Legal and Transactional Compliance
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Microsoft applications like MS Excel, MS Word
Timeline
Team Lead, Litigation and Investigation Services
Proxiio Global Solutions Private Limited
11.2023 - Current
Senior Manager - Contracts
Mind Merchants Global Private Limited
01.2023 - 10.2023
Senior Consultant - Legal
SirionLabs
06.2022 - 01.2023
Senior Contract Attorney
Cacti Legal Services LLP
12.2021 - 06.2022
Team Lead
Elevate Services
12.2019 - 11.2021
Team Lead
Pangea3, Thomson Reuters
07.2011 - 11.2019
Litigation Associate
Advocate Sudhir Gupta (a leading Trial Court and High Court lawyer in Delhi)
07.2010 - 03.2011
B.A.LL.B -
IME Law College
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