Vipin Patil

• End to End Contracting (Software and Non-Software Agreements
• High Value Deal ranging from 20 to 280mn pounds/dollars
• Implement Contract watchpoints process for business to effectively manager the contract post execution
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure timely resolution of complex legal matters.
• Part of LegalTech Projects, such as CLM, FAQs, update tools etc.
• Managing and training the new hires, and coaching the new hires and the existing resources on the high value complex deals.

Provide comprehensive contracting support from start to closure for Accenture's UKINA region. Key responsibilities include drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a variety of sales and contractual documents, such as MSAs, CSAs, RFPs, statements of work, BPO outsourcing and subcontract agreements, local country agreements, proposals, change orders, teaming agreements, NDAs, and software license agreements.

• Contracting: Managed end-to-end negotiations for deals exceeding $50 million, including Capco deals ranging from $100 million to over $200 million, encompassing complex elements like TUPE transfer, regulated scope, and operations across more than 20 countries.
• Stakeholder Liaison: Coordinated with senior business stakeholders, deal teams, solution architects, finance, HR, and external clients/subcontractors for client/vendor negotiations.
• Process Improvement: Led transformation activities, enhancing the CLM platform, and automating the risk waiver process.
• Risk Mitigation: Developed risk mitigation strategies, provided relevant advice, and maintained an issues list for deal or delivery teams.
• Coaching & Mentoring: Trained and mentored contracting professionals and legal function teams.
• Legal Research: Conducted extensive legal research to support case preparation and provide accurate advice to clients.
• Compliance Advisory: Advised businesses on compliance issues, reducing risk exposure, and potential financial liabilities.

Managed a team of 5 contract specialists within NetApp's indirect procurement team (software and non-software category).

• Drafting, review, and negotiation of software (SaaS, software license agreement, subscription agreements, MSAs, MSOW, EULA, clickthrough agreement, etc.). And non-software-related contracts.
• Negotiation of contracts with suppliers on either NetApp or supplier contract template, including but not limited to Software as a Service, comprehensive Master Services Agreements, Master License and Service Agreement, Statement of Work, Amendments, etc.
• And negotiation of global preferred supplier agreements, following the legal guidelines that are set up in the NetApp Legal Playbook.
• Managed escalations to the legal department.
• Automate business risk waiver process, redlining automation process for agreements on the standard template.
• Work with third-party service provider on the tools and new functionalities that need to be implemented.
• Contracting subject matter expert (SME), providing coaching and advisory services to other sourcing managers in the team.
• Training and Coaching team on various contracting concepts, playbooks, and contract guide.
• Played a key role in the contracting improvement plan.
• Involved in recruiting contracting professionals in India and the US.
• Bridge between procurement team and internal legal team.
• Worked with the helpdesk team on an assignment basis, depending on the nature and complexity of contracts.

• Responsible for end-to-end contract management process.
• Drafting, reviewing of MSAs, software license agreements, SOWs, NDAs, and work orders.
• Drafting, vetting, and negotiations of international commercial contracts, goods, and service agreements, etc.
• Risk Management – Review risk policies.
• Prepare an action plan to decrease the risk factor.
• Risk Management plan to evaluate risk policies.
• Account Mining and research, Cross-sell within various horizontals and verticals.
• Experience of working on multi-tower deals.
• Prepare legal solutions based on customer requirements.
• Work with commercials, pricing, and automation teams to design the winning proposal.
• Capability presentations on the legal process services offerings.
• Evaluating legal impact, risk assessment in business.
• Provide support to the Contract Management team or directly to the Client Engagement team to enable the administration of international commercial contracts in accordance with company policies and procedures, applicable laws, and customer requirements.
• Responsible for tracking and monitoring contract changes, deliverables, correspondence, and risks, and maintaining associated documentation.
• To serve as an escalation point for the other team members on the account.
• To provide coaching and training to the offshore team members, working to develop consistencies in reviews and communications with the internal client and account leadership.
• Legal Solution Development - Contracts Management, Litigation Support, Regulatory Compliance, eDiscovery, etc.
• Guide on the changes, rules, and regulations.
• Work as per the customer template or third-party template to ensure that the agreed SLAs are met with the required quality.
• Preparing proposals – responding to RFx (RFP, RFQ, RFI, etc.).
• Prepare offering collaterals, conduct offering and capability presentations.
• Working experience in relevant CLMS and other tools, such as Apttus, Ariba, Icertis, etc.
• Expertise in responding to legal services RFIs and RFPs - coordination with different internal teams like pricing, technology, etc.
• Capability to work in multi-tower deals and stitch the legal solution with the overall proposal.

• Drafting, review, redline, negotiation, and abstraction of international commercial contracts such as MSAs, NDAs, Software License Agreements, Consulting Agreements, Work Orders, and SoWs.
• Also, have good experience on ISDA, GMRA, GMSLA, trust, and domestic and global custody agreements.
• Worked as point of contact for all delivery locations to build strong relationships with customers (with clients and stakeholders).
• Draft, review, negotiate, and redline the international swaps and derivative agreements.
• Trained the team on ISDA, types of derivatives.
• Exposure of various tools and platforms used to review ISDA agreements.
• Led a team of 35 checkers for the review and abstraction of ISDA agreements.
• Coordinates with global, regional, and internal stakeholders for contract management projects and manages day-to-day deliverables.
• Provide support to customers on the requirements, as per the specified parameters of the project, and ongoing issues.
• Collaborate with the global teams (GNDM Locations) to support and ensure compliance of activities to deliver according to customer requirements.
• Responsible for preparation and execution of contracts, and follow and prepare process maps, SOP, etc.
• Ensure quality control checks (QC) for the assigned projects/deliverables to meet client expectations.
• Perform legal research on the compliance policies and procedures.
• Received an appreciation from one of the executive directors of the biggest investment bank in the US for completing the review and risk analysis of 98,000 agreements before the deadline.

• Associate Litigation Support - The primary responsibilities include Contract Life Cycle Management Review of contracts and process work requests based on client guidelines/instructions, Commercial Contract Management Financial Document review
• Work requests includes: Review of contract and extract contract data on a client platform per the client guidelines and uploading them
• Provide phone and Email support, Client co-ordination & reporting
• I have worked on different E-Discovery Platforms

• Contract Review.
• Contract Abstraction.
• Drafting, redline, and negotiation of contracts, such as MSA, NDA, and SOW.
• Capturing legal and industry topics based on the legal analysis
• Working as a QC for additional projects and conducting QC review, identifying resources for QC review, and legal analysis for court opinions.
• Analyzing, interpreting legal provisions, and providing pertinent advice to the management to ensure compliance with legal provisions.
• Played the role of SME, execute knowledge dissemination, resource planning, training, and improvement, and maintaining production and quality data.
• Handling queries and client escalations.

• Responsible for contract management activities, such as drafting contracts, reviewing documents received from clients, and submitting the abstract.
• Responsible for analyzing the risk in contracts by comparing clients' standard clauses with the new contracts.
• Contract abstraction.