Vipin Viswanath
Pune
Summary
Legal professional with extensive experience at Mastercard Technology, leading a multi-geographical team in Privacy and Data Protection. Expertise in corporate governance and contract negotiation, driving process automation and compliance initiatives. Strong stakeholder engagement skills, fostering collaboration and delivering strategic legal solutions that enhance operational efficiency.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Director, Legal Services
Mastercard Technology Private Limited
01.2018 - Current
- Planning & formulating strategies as part of the Legal Leadership Team
- Lead the Privacy and Data Protection team.
- Leading a multi-geographical team of 18 privacy professionals based across Pune, St. Louis and Bogota.
- Member of multiple leadership committees for organizational development and providing training to Mastercard personnel.
- Analyzing & identifying opportunities for automation and improvement of various processes in collaboration with the analytics and automation team as part of continuous process improvement (CPI) initiative.
- Regulating the process management encompassing Privacy & Data Protection, Environmental Social Governance (ESG), contract risk review and management, compliance support, corporate governance, invoice management, and regulatory affairs.
Assistant Manager
Flextronics Technologies (India) Private Limited
12.2013 - 12.2017
- Managed the India Corporate Governance team, handling a team of 7 attorneys along with goal settings and appraisal of these resources.
- Implemented the project for drafting and executing Intra-Group Agreements (IGAs) for 300 plus entities as stipulated by the Binding Corporate Rules (BCR).
- Monitored the Global Entity Management System (GEMS) and the global Power of Attorney (PoA) Approval Process.
- Provided M&A Support – Internal NDA Process and M&A NDA review; drafted inter-company loan agreements.
- Extensively worked on entity incorporations, mergers & liquidations.
- Led Invoice management for Asia entities. (Serengeti Tracker).
- Maintained and updated the access person list and notification process for the Insider Trading process.
- Ensured adherence to company law related compliances for a private company including RBI compliance.
- Reviewed documents to be filed in courts and coordinated/liaised with law firms representing the company.
- Advised key stake holders on interpretation of laws & contracts and participated in cross-functional team initiatives dealing with various business issues and provide legal advice to such groups.
- Involved in creation of playbooks and legal checklists for various activities for usage within legal and business units across various regions.
Attorney
12.2004 - 12.2013
- Worked as an attorney with a private law firm having representations in the State of Kerala lower and high courts.
Specialist/Level D – Contract Management/ Core legal
Accenture Services Private Limited
05.2012 - 06.2013
- Negotiated with vendors on a multitude of commercial contracts; drafted and reviewed various vendor contracts (MSAs, AMCs, SLAs etc.) upon request from the Procurement Team.
- Reviewed data transfer agreements (DTA) and EU Model Clauses.
- Advised the Procurement Team on legal queries and regularly updated the Procurement SharePoint database.
- Prepared regulatory compliance report for Accenture offices across India.
- Monitored the internal compliance policy for Co-location and developed a process for Co-location.
- Assisted in the automation of the Co-location process; addressed requests from Project Teams for Co-locating client/client third-party vendor personnel.
- Provided ad hoc support to Onshore Contract Manager/ Project team; created and presented the Contract Awareness/ Confidentiality, Intellectual Property and Data Privacy decks for the Onshore Project team.
Assistant Manager – Quality
Cobra Legal Solutions
11.2007 - 01.2012
Legal Associate
Innodata–Isogen Pvt Ltd
01.2007 - 11.2007
Legal Research Executive
AVA Consulting
04.2006 - 10.2006
Education
BAL. LLB - Bachelor of Law
Kerala University
01.2004
Skills
- Business Strategizing & Implementation
- Corporate Legal Affairs & Operations
- Privacy and data protection
- Process Standardization & Automation
- Contract Management & Negotiation
- Corporate Governance
- Global Secretarial & Regulatory Compliance
- Stakeholder & Client Engagements
- Mergers & Acquisitions
Certification
Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E)
Languages
- English
- Malayalam
- Hindi
- Tamil
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 02/22/82
Languages
English
First Language
Malayalam
Proficient (C2)
C2
Hindi
Advanced (C1)
C1
Tamil
Proficient (C2)
C2
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Director, Legal Services
Mastercard Technology Private Limited
01.2018 - Current
Assistant Manager
Flextronics Technologies (India) Private Limited
12.2013 - 12.2017
Specialist/Level D – Contract Management/ Core legal
Accenture Services Private Limited
05.2012 - 06.2013
Assistant Manager – Quality
Cobra Legal Solutions
11.2007 - 01.2012
Legal Associate
Innodata–Isogen Pvt Ltd
01.2007 - 11.2007
Legal Research Executive
AVA Consulting
04.2006 - 10.2006
Attorney
12.2004 - 12.2013
BAL. LLB - Bachelor of Law
Kerala University
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