Vaibhav Shende
Pune
Summary
Proficient legal leader with extensive expertise in drafting, redlining, and negotiating complex contracts across IT, logistics, telecom, and banking sectors. Skilled in end-to-end contract lifecycle management, compliance, and risk mitigation. Demonstrated success in leading high-performing teams, managing time-sensitive projects for top-tier clients, and delivering error-free results. Combines strategic legal acumen with strong operational skills in implementing contract management systems and optimizing legal processes. Known for delivering results through focused execution, integrity, and empathetic leadership.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Manager – Legal
HCL Technologies Limited
PUNE
01.2025 - Current
- Lead the vendor contracting team of 6 tenured and experienced professionals, overseeing all customer-facing vendor relationships and strategic partnerships.
- Review, redline, and negotiate complex vendor agreements including Subcontractor Agreements, Teaming Agreements, Reseller Agreements, Referral Agreements, Partnership Agreements, Master Vendor Agreements, Master Services Agreements, Master Licensing Agreements, GTM engagements, SaaS, PaaS agreements etc.
- Manage Statement of Works and Change Notes for existing vendor relationships, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and risk mitigation.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Procurement, Alliance, Delivery, and Sales teams to ensure seamless execution and stakeholder satisfaction.
- Partner with Risk and Compliance teams on data privacy and information security matters, and coordinate with AI team on AI-related contractual provisions.
Senior Manager – Legal
Infosys LPM
PUNE
05.2023 - 12.2024
- Review and redline diverse contracts, including Customer Contracts, Procurement Contracts, MSAs, Subcontracting Agreements, Teaming Agreements, Partnership Agreements, Sponsorship Agreements, RFPs, and MOUs, ensuring compliance and mitigating risks. Creating Deviation tables, issue lists and approval matrices whenever needed.
- Engage in negotiations with stakeholders and customers to ensure mutually beneficial outcomes and alignment with organizational objectives.
- Oversee contract lifecycle management processes, including obligation tracking using CMS tools, ensuring adherence to contractual commitments and timelines.
- Lead and manage a dynamic 15 members team, providing guidance, support, and fostering a collaborative work environment to achieve departmental goals.
- Conduct training sessions for new joiners, facilitating their integration into the team and ensuring a comprehensive understanding of contracts and best practices.
Legal Operations Manager
Priceline.com Technology India LLP
PUNE
11.2021 - 04.2023
- Contracting Role – Review and redlining and negotiation of commercial contracts MSAs, RFPs and other customer facing contracts along with procurement contracts.
- Legal Ops Role – Implemented and onboarded a Contract Management System CMS, conducting user testing and providing training to stakeholders. Analyzed contracts and legal templates to identify optimization opportunities and improve efficiency. Managed ongoing litigations and legal services requirements, ensuring compliance with budgetary constraints. Maintained corporate documents repository(GEMS) and liaised with third-party service providers globally for legal document notarization and registration. Empanelled law firms globally to create geo-specific contract repository and also helped manage legal team's budget and litigation management.
Legal Manager
Toll (India) Logistics Pvt. Ltd.
PUNE
09.2018 - 11.2021
- Reviewing, drafting, and negotiating all IT and non-IT procurement contracts, recruitment contracts, Local Country Agreements, and lease agreements. Reviewing and negotiating with all major service providers keeping Toll's position protected.
- Resolving legal queries of all internal stakeholders/teams HR, Admin, IT, Operations/Delivery, etc.). Reviewing Offer letter templates periodically; helping in revising internal HR policies, etc., to ensure compliance with local laws.
- Regularly helping HR handle various disciplinary and policy-related matters, ensuring compliance with PF and other statutory compliances.
Associate Manager – Legal
Persistent Systems Limited
PUNE
09.2015 - 09.2018
- Contracting Role – Reviewing, redlining and negotiating customer and vendor contracts, RFPs, Partnership Agreements, SaaS Agreements, Teaming Agreements, SubCon Agreements. Securing stakholder inputs, securing deviations related approvals and finalizing signature ready version of the agreements.
- Legal/Litigation/Internal stakeholder support Role – Providing internal legal support and resolving queries from various departments, ensuring compliance with legal requirements. Managing ongoing litigations, providing inputs to external attorneys and updating stakeholders and board of directors on individual case updates. Supervising ad-hoc projects arising from M&A activities and coordinating internal approvals and record-keeping on Contract Management CMS tool. Drafting and responding to Legal Notices in consultation with our insurers. Drafting legal notices to be sent to non-paying customers.
Process Specialist / Lead Analyst
Infosys BPM
PUNE
05.2012 - 09.2015
- Worked on numerable end-to-end contract lifecycle management projects, including contract compliance tracking, risk assessment, variations drafting, and contract baselining/abstraction on multiple CLM tools.
- As a team lead, maintaining team morale, motivation, and ensuring adherence to SLAs.
- Worked on notable projects including leading time-sensitive initiatives for a leading Telecommunication company and managing contract management and deviation analysis projects for a reputable Banking company, consistently delivering error-free results and delivering critical gaps analysis deliverables. Performed and delivered additional responsibilities such as conducting bespoke Legal Research assignments and organizing team-building sessions to foster a positive work environment.
Junior Associate
Bodhi Global Services
PUNE
09.2010 - 05.2012
- Gained eperience in contract management, compliance projects, and providing project management support by developing insightful dashboards for ongoing projects to the senior management within the organisation. Gained proficiency in document review processes, including playing the role of Quality Check, QA, Consistency checks particularly for various clients' litigation related deliverables.
- Played a crucial role in time-sensitive M&A deals for an Indian company, demonstrating adeptness in managing high-pressure situations.
- Additionally, contributed to a medical records review project by effectively defining the chronology of medical records, showcasing meticulous attention to detail and organizational skills.
Education
BA.LLB -
Calcutta University
12th & 10th - CBSE
Birla High School
Skills
- Contract Drafting & Negotiation
- CLM Tools
- CMS (Conga, Icertis, Salesforce, Ariba)
- Leadership
- Stakeholder Management
Attributes
- Results-Oriented
- Integrity & Humility
- Empathetic Listener
- People Leadership
Languages
English
Proficient
C2
Hindi
Proficient
C2
Marathi
Advanced
C1
Bengali
Proficient
C2
Timeline
Senior Manager – Legal
HCL Technologies Limited
01.2025 - Current
Senior Manager – Legal
Infosys LPM
05.2023 - 12.2024
Legal Operations Manager
Priceline.com Technology India LLP
11.2021 - 04.2023
Legal Manager
Toll (India) Logistics Pvt. Ltd.
09.2018 - 11.2021
Associate Manager – Legal
Persistent Systems Limited
09.2015 - 09.2018
Process Specialist / Lead Analyst
Infosys BPM
05.2012 - 09.2015
Junior Associate
Bodhi Global Services
09.2010 - 05.2012
BA.LLB -
Calcutta University
12th & 10th - CBSE
Birla High School