Tanya Ruby
Bangalore
Summary
An organized individual with an experience of over 9 years in Legal Operations and Compliance Experience of advising and responding to legal inquiries from business teams; expertise in supporting corporate secretarial matters Capabilities in rendering strategic legal advisory on general business, commercial transactions, litigations, disputes, & so on; advising management on the implications of various legislations during formulation of long-term business plans Worked closely with Global Corporate Legal (GCL) team and external legal counsels on litigation support and similar matters Acted as POC during Global and Local Audit and working closely with business functions to close on audit observations Track record of setting up systems & procedures for legal & compliance with laws applicable to the organization & govt. regulations Skilled in drafting various legal documents; resourceful in managing day-to-day legal matters including liaison with external counsel for court cases etc Proficient in MS Office Applications & Internet
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr. Manager-Legal Counsel
AstraZeneca India Private Limited
03.2022 - Current
- Contracts Management: Drafting, reviewing, revising, and negotiating agreements and providing support in drafting of policies and other documents
- Maintaining and updating Contract Templates by coordinating with Procurement and Finance functions regularly and as per AZ Global Standard Templates
- Finalizing terms & conditions of agreements; performing analysis to ensure that contracts are within negotiated & agreed-upon parameters
- Corporate Secretarial: Providing support in Corporate Secretarial Matter and act as POC during Secretarial Audits
- Providing support in ensuring effective conduct of Board meetings, formal agendas and minutes and effective follow-up mechanisms on Board actions/ decisions
- General Legal: Apprising the leadership team with respect to emerging applicable local laws; delivering timely general legal support in compliance with set policies
- Maintaining and upkeeping of the Statutory Compliance and Monitoring tool and ensuring timely addition of new compliances, follow up with stakeholders for closure actions etc
- Administering day-to-day execution of legal operations and providing in-house legal advice on strategic projects to various internal committees and leading successful implementations of internal policies
- Strengthening the Risk governance framework by through periodic review of Risks including emerging risks, follow up on Risk mitigation actions and ensuring updated tool to give visibility to leadership on the Organizational Risk Register Status through coordination with finance team, Corp Sec Consultants and MC Company Secretary
- Data Privacy: Acting as the Deputy Data Privacy Officer for Chennai GITC Entity
- Establish a strong connection with the Global Data Privacy Office and ensure that all Global guidance are cascaded to leadership and others
- Promoting Data Privacy, Compliance and Risk Management best practice throughout the company
- Tracking the implementation of the new Data Privacy law in India and proactively drive trainings and other awareness sessions to strengthen the awareness of Data Privacy
- Cascade the findings of Data Privacy Maturity Assessment and work closely with teams to ensure closure of those findings
- Compliance and Sustainability: Engaging with employees on various Ethics and Transparency events through periodic training sessions, case study discussions, publishing of Compliance tool Kits, newsletters etc
- Assisting Global Teams in formulating the Annual ‘AstraZeneca Code of Ethics’ document and training kits on the same
- Assisting in implementation of various Org
- Level Compliance and Sustainability events
- General Administrative: Managing, mentoring & monitoring the performance of Legal Team members to ensure efficiency in process
- Managing external service providers and ensuring NDAs, ELs and Agreements are in place and are reviewed and revised annually
Manager – Compliance (India & Frontier Markets)
AstraZeneca Pharma India Limited
12.2016 - 02.2022
Legal Analyst
Pramata Knowledge Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
11.2015 - 12.2016
Advocate
Govindaraju, Advocate
07.2012 - 10.2013
- Company Overview: Independent practitioner specialized in IP litigation and civil matters
- Independent practitioner specialized in IP litigation and civil matters
Education
LL.B -
K L E Society’s Law College
01.2012
PGDBA (2 Yrs.) - Finance
Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning
01.2010
B.Com. -
Christ College
01.2006
Skills
- Corporate Legal Affairs
- Contract Management
- Legal & Regulatory Compliances
- Legal Documentation
- Policy Formulation/ Implementation
- Stakeholder Management
- Risk Mitigation
- Team Building & Leadership
- Strategic Legal Advisory
Certification
- Pursuing Diploma in Advanced Contract Drafting, Negotiation and Dispute Resolution, Lawsikho.com
- Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification, 2009
- Diploma in Computer Application, 2006
Languages
English
Kannada
Telugu
Tamil
Hindi
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 04/20/86
Internship
Holla Associates, Internee, Mr. Harikrishna S. Holla, IP Attorney & Trademark Consultant, 01/01/12, 06/30/12
Timeline
Sr. Manager-Legal Counsel
AstraZeneca India Private Limited
03.2022 - Current
Manager – Compliance (India & Frontier Markets)
AstraZeneca Pharma India Limited
12.2016 - 02.2022
Legal Analyst
Pramata Knowledge Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
11.2015 - 12.2016
Advocate
Govindaraju, Advocate
07.2012 - 10.2013
PGDBA (2 Yrs.) - Finance
Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning
B.Com. -
Christ College
- Pursuing Diploma in Advanced Contract Drafting, Negotiation and Dispute Resolution, Lawsikho.com
- Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification, 2009
- Diploma in Computer Application, 2006
LL.B -
K L E Society’s Law College
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