Vicky Thakwani

• Drafting and review of customer contracts, vendor contracts, MOU, Joint venture Agreement and NDA’s and other documents containing legal covenants of group companies.
• Drafting, reviewing and responding/issuing of legal notices to the defaulting corporate debtors/customers under Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code (IBC) followed by petition for insolvency.
• Drafting and reviewing of Legal Notices under section 138 of Negotiable instruments Act.
• Reviewing & vetting of RFP, SOW and Purchase order Terms & Conditions floated by banks, public sector companies and government organizations.
• Preparing, maintaining and updated all the legal contracts tracker and updating the Board of Directors on cases filed by and against the Company.
• Coordinating and liaising with external counsels appointed by the Company globally in relation the legal cases filed by or against the Company.
• Assisting the management in all Mergers & Acquisition activities including but not limited to Due Diligence and drafting and reviewing of contracts such business transfer, Share Purchase Agreements, Assignment or Novation Agreement etc., for the Company.
• Collaborated with attorneys to develop strategies for each litigation case.

LEGAL:

• Drafting and vetting of legal contracts such as Legal terms of Tenders, SaaS or Software licensing Agreement, Service Agreement, Strategic Partnership Agreement, Supply, Joint Venture, NDA, MOU, letter of Intent and other business contracts to safeguard the Company’s interest in various commercial transactions.
• To ensure legally secured deals for the group companies.
• Reviewing and vetting of RFP, SOW and the Purchase order terms and conditions.
• Handling Legal matters with related to recoveries from Customer, Employees and other stakeholders.
• Monitoring all legal/ statutory approvals, licenses relevant.
• Overall contracts management for the entire group of Companies.
• Handling & reviewing GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations) UK related compliance for the organization.

CORPORATE SECRETARIAL:

• Providing insight, analysis and recommendation to the Board of Directors and Senior Management team related to all secretarial developments in the industry and applicability to the Company.
• Maintaining statutory books/ registers and all secretarial and statutory compliances.
• Drafting resolutions, Board Report and Minutes and filing of extracts of Board meetings and AGM and annual returns with Registrar of Companies (ROC).
• Review of documentation (notices, agendas, attendance, and other relevant documentation) for convening the Board meetings, Extraordinary General Meetings (EGM) and AGMs.
• Timely compliance under Secretarial Standards as per Companies Act.
• Co-ordinate with Corporate Secretarial Consultant at Filing with ROC as per Companies Act.
• Monitor yearly declaration by Board of Directors for continuity as Directors as per Company's Act.

• Reviewing, preparation and drafting of Contracts/MSA/NDA.
• Maintaining and preparing the Resource Allocation chart for abstracting the documents.
• Providing support for implementation of identified process with a view for better utilization of resources.
• Quality check for the assigned contract or documents.
• Delivery Management including intelligent quality analysis.
• Providing support and co-ordination of other legal departments of group companies.
• Developed compliance best practices for company.

• Assisted in handling the overall compliances and secretarial work of the Company.
• Assisted in conducting Board Meetings and Audit Committee meetings, Annual General Meeting and Extra-Ordinary General Meeting.
• Drafting of Notices, Agenda and Minutes of the Meetings.
• Preparation of Directors Report and the Annual Report
• Assisted in Alteration of MOA & AOA.
• Maintenance and updating of all Statutory Registers required under the Companies Act.
• Compliance related to Shifting of Registered Office of the Company.
• Filing of E-Forms with the MCA/ROC - Form 24A, 20B, 23AC and 23ACA, 23B, Form 8 & 17 and Form 23 etc.
• Reviewing of agreements/contracts such as Hypothecation, Non-disclosure, Master Service Agreements etc.
• Conducting Legal Audit of Various Business units of the Company including Factories & Warehouses.
• Worked on Third Party Project related to Anti Bribery laws.

• Litigation Document Review - Worked for US Discovery and UK Disclosure projects for the magic circle law firms in different roles and levels
• Contract Management/Contract Abstraction
• Litigation Services - Worked for an US media giant in building an e-library of various cases and its judgments
• Resolved queries of peers and team members on the subject matter and the raised escalations
• Due diligence for corporate litigations
• Attended client calls as and when required for the smooth running of the projects .
• Prepared project and litigation tool training manuals
• Legal Research, Summarizing and paraphrasing contracts.
• Handled Legal documents including US Court Case papers, Drafts, DOJ case.
• Worked on various e-discovery tools.

• Conducted Tax Audit of various companies.
• Preparation of Income Tax returns.
• Drafting various types of deeds for clients such as partnership deed, indemnity bond, lease dead, notices, power of attorney etc.
• Drafting Letters for various types of Requests

• Checking the legal compliances of various clients as required by bank like Property owner ship and the Sales Deed if any.
• Security Verification on behalf of Banks for various customers including Assets Verification and Stock Checking.
• Statutory and Tax Audits of manufacturing companies and trading concerns.
• Preparation of Income Tax returns and other forms related to Individual, Firm and Corporate Assessee.