Siddhi Kudalkar
Corporate Lawer
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Mergers & Acquisitions, White Collar Crime
S&R Associates
- Assisted Singapore based medical devices company in preparing compliance matrix for their employees with respect to offering gifts / entertainment / hospitality to its customers specifically in government sector
- Advice on PN-3 assessment and possible remediation from foreign exchange law perspective to various companies
- Assisted US based global insurance company in the review of its Indian subsidiary’s pay scales and job divisions to conduct gender based pay-equity analysis and advised on the remediation steps
- Acting for US based leading security software provider in transfer of its risk and governance software business for which work primarily included (i) foreign equity funding and business transfer advice and documentation; (ii) advisory on the assignment of export receivables under foreign exchange laws
- Acting for New Mountain Capital, US based PE fund in its Indian acquisition of analytical instrumentation business for which the work primarily included: (i) incorporation of a private limited company and assisting with compliances and making the entity fully operational (ii) detailed funding planning (including advise on retracting funds due last minute deal fall-through) and execution for receiving funding through debt and equity under foreign exchange and corporate laws; (iii) negotiation and drafting of transaction documents such as business transfer agreement and share transfer agreement; Strategy and legal advice under foreign exchange laws for India specific issues such as land-border countries investment restrictions and redressals in cases of reporting failures, compounding of ECB violations etc
- Extensive experience in managing India pieces of cross-border M&A transactions (from both seller and buyer side) by working closely with foreign companies, PE/VC funds and global law firms and advice from foreign exchange and corporate law perspective.
Data Privacy
S&R Associates
10.2022 - Current
- Drafting consent notice, privacy policy and IT policy for e-commerce businesses
- Advice on the data mapping, various issues under the data protection laws such as data localisation, storage of financial data
- Advice on the data protection risk assessment, data mapping, validity of consent obtained, obligations on the relevant parties etc
- In cases of internal company investigations, employee transfer and corporate restructuring transactions
- Review of transaction documents such as employee transfer agreement, share purchase agreement etc
- From data privacy perspective
- Currently working on preparing primer on the newly introduced Indian data privacy statue.
Mergers & Acquisitions, White Collar Crime
L&L Partners Law Offices
07.2019 - 09.2022
- Acted for a New York based PE fund in Indian part of its global acquisition of analytical instrumentation business from a leading company in life sciences and diagnostics sector
- Assisted the team in the due diligence of three Indian entities at the bid stage and review of global transaction documents such as asset sale and purchase agreement from Indian law perspective
- Represented global industrial groups in food, logistics, IT, whole-sale trade, manufacturing, sectors including NYSE-listed Fortune 500 industrial major, in the reorganisation of their India business, as a part of global transaction from due diligence to implementation stage for structures such as business transfer, share transfer, assignment of cross-border receivables/payables, dividend pay-outs and capital infusion
- Assisted in research and drafting of legal opinions on voting rights of depository receipt holders, fiduciary duties of promoters, rights of minority shareholders, compliance under Indian foreign exchange law for wholesale trading between group companies, and dividend declaration from Indian corporate laws perspective
- Assisted the team in drafting various commercial agreements such as, (i) joint venture agreement and distribution agreement for global luxury brand distributing company; (ii) agreements for assignment of export related receivables and customs duty refunds under litigation
- Assisted leading Indian pharma company in conducting internal investigation in relation to allegations of sexual harassment and work harassment by junior female employee against one of the directors of the company
- Work involved assessing privacy law concerns while collecting the data, analysing the evidence extracted by forensic firms from such data, conducting interviews and presenting final findings and advising on the next steps
- Advise to UK based electronics group on preparion and implementation of the sexual harassment, maternity leave and other women centric policies for more inclusive workplace
- Acted for global infrastructure company, based out of France in the anti-corruption due diligence and strategic advice in relation to its indirect acquisition of the Indian private limited company
- Assisted a foreign embassy associated entity in the education sector in conducting internal investigation on one of its employees in respect of allegations of procurement fraud and other non-compliances
- Assisted Japan based global optical products manufacturing in the review of the findings of another law firm in relation to corruption allegation against certain employees
- Advised Indian and multinational entities on the optimum employment transfer method and associated documentation, as a part of business transfer carve outs
- Advised multiple clients across different industries like IT, finance, HR on various employment law considerations such as compliances while opting for “work from home” model due to COVID-19 pandemic and employer’s rights and duties with respect to mandatory COVID-19 vaccination of its employees
- Advising on data privacy issues in the context of employment law and white collar investigations, while working on the above described projects.
Academic Qualifications And Achievements
- Recently cleared International Association of Privacy Professional’s (Accredited under ANSI/ISO standard 17024:2012) certification exam – Certified Information Privacy Professional, GDPR.
- B.A., LL.B. (Hons.): CGPA 4.88/7 from National Law School of India University, Bangalore (2019)
- Nominated by NLSIU for an intensive semester exchange programme in socio-legal studies at Sciences Po, Paris (2019).
Internship Experience
- Chambers of Senior Advocate Parag Tripathi, New Delhi (October, 2016).
- Centre for Law and Public Policy, Bangalore (November, 2016).
- Lawyers Collective, Mumbai (October, 2015).
- Teach For India, Mumbai (February, 2015).
Publications
- Co-authored an article titled “Whistle-blowing Mechanisms for Private Companies : A Need for the Gatekeepers of Corporate Governance” with Sumithra Suresh, published in Prime Directory – 2022 edition.
- Co-authored an article titled “A New Code for Pharmaceutical Marketing Practices: From Symptoms to Diagnosis” with Deborshi Bharat, published on the S&R Associates blog.
- I have written multiple blog articles on women’s issue, which can be found here.
Extracurricular Activities
- Researcher, quarter-finalist at 10th S. P. Sathe Criminal Law Moot, 2016 organized by ILS College, Pune.
- Represented NLSIU, Bangalore at InADR International Law School Mediation Tournament, Chicago in March 2018.
- Won Second Best Team Award at S. V. Salgaonkar International Negotiation Competition, 2016.
Research Assistant
- Research assistant in many inhouse ongoing projects with Centre for Child and Law and Advanced Centre for Research, Development and Training in Cyber Laws and Forensics at NLSIU, Bangalore.
- Research assistant Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy for a project involving analysis of reasons behind speedy disposal of criminal writ petitions in a Delhi High Court.
Organizational Experience
- Founding Member, NLS Feminist Alliance
Timeline
Data Privacy
S&R Associates
10.2022 - Current
Mergers & Acquisitions, White Collar Crime
L&L Partners Law Offices
07.2019 - 09.2022
Mergers & Acquisitions, White Collar Crime
S&R Associates
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