Paytm Payments Bank Limited

Assistant General Manager Legal May 2021 – Present

Corporate & Legal Advisory

 Drafting agreements offering various payment acquiring and payment processing channels such as UPI, BBPS, PA and wallet.
 Drafting and vetting of IT, SAAS, service, employment, marketing and other agreements for other business verticals.
 Reviewing Bid/RFP’s issued by various govt. departments and providing necessary documents to business to comply with
Bid requirements.
 Handling intra company transfer of business and executing relevant business transfer agreements from legal perspective.
 Handling complex and critical agreement negotiations with third parties and ensuring closure of agreements within
required timelines.
 Reviewing and vetting of product process notes from legal perspective and ensuring coverage of legal aspects in the process
notes.
 Recognized for handling agreements with high business potential and delivering results within time “recognized for timely
closure and assisting bank in going live with its first inward remittance product Paytm becomes India’s first platform to
accept international remittances directly intodigital wallet Economic Times Report”.
 Preparing strategy and plan of action with internal teams in and around complex legal matters and catering to unprecedented
situations with viable solutions.
 Providing guidance and legal knowledge to team members and internal stakeholders while drafting and vetting of
agreements or during third party agreement negotiations.

Scholar Alley Private Limited (OxfordCaps)

Senior Manager Legal April 2019 – March 2021

Corporate & Legal advisory

 Drafting and vetting of lease, leave and license, employment/consultant, marketing, service, settlement and SAAS agreements.
 Drafting of MOU, LOI and Term sheets to ensure smooth business transactions from legal perspective.
 Advising business verticals with legal options to circumvent financial risk and liability during third party agreement negotiations.
 Leading agreements negotiation with the business partners and service partners on independent basis.
 Conducting property due diligence during the process of acquiring properties on pan India basis.
 Handling monetary negotiation with third parties to secure financial exposure of company arising out of contractual disputes.
 Providing legal opinion to board members on matters involving complex legal issues and disputes.
 Handling company’s trademark profile and ensuring timely registration of various trademarks with the trademark registry.
 Coordinating with internal teams to provide legal guidance and to update T&C’s with latest applicable legal provisions.
Litigation

 Handling litigation matters involving disputes such as civil, criminal, consumer, IPR, cheque bounce, insolvency and
bankruptcy and POSH matters.
 Preparing legal strategy around complex legal issues and briefing the stakeholders with the relevant strategies.
 Recognized for securing company’s huge financial loss during data theft incident perpetrated by rival business entity.
 Liaisoning with law enforcement agencies on pan India basis and ensuring effective closure of complaints and FIR.
 Liaisoning with external law firms and ensuring smooth execution of the legal matters on pan India basis.
 Handling negotiation with third parties around high-stake financial disputes and securing financial exposure of the company.

One MobiKwik Systems Private Limited

Manager – Legal April 2017 – April 2019

Corporate & Legal Advisory

 Drafting and vetting of agreements such as payment gateway, merchant on-boarding, issuance of co-branded wallets,
wallets, lending, service, vendor and marketing agreements.
 Drafting and vetting of Memorandum of Understanding and Letter of Intent to secure business transactions with critical TAT
requirements.
 Handling agreement negotiations with third party and ensuring effective and time bound closure of agreements.
 Updating company’s internal policies with latest legal provision including updating T&C around various fintech products.
 Preparing and advising board members with strategies to effectively resolve complex legal issues.

Litigation
 Handling matters which include civil and criminal dispute, consumer dispute, IPR infringement, insolvency and
bankruptcy and employees related matters.
 Coordinating with law enforcement agencies, regulatory bodies such as RBI during yearly audit and various other
banking and financial institutions.
 Filing and pursuing of criminal complaints and FIR with legal and statutory bodies to ensure prevention of monetary frauds.
 Coordinating with external law firms and attending in-person hearing on pan India basis to represent facts on
behalf of the company.
 Drafting and replying to notices in-house to prevent potential litigation with consumer and third party.
 Recognized with “milestone achievement” award for leading a huge monetary fraud case involving funds of around
19crores and ensuring 70% recovery within a year.

SETH DUA & ASSOCIATES

Associate – April 2016 – March 2017

Civil Litigation and Alternate Dispute Resolution

 Advised and represented clients engaged in mobile banking business and NBFC’s in their varied litigations on pan India
basis.
 Advised and represented clients offering products and appliances for sale through online marketplace
 against allegations of trademark infringement.
 Advised and represented reputed apparel manufacturing client in multiple ad-hoc arbitration proceedings against its
distributors.
 Handling and managing Trademark profile of clients from application filing stage till allotment of trademark registration
certificate including appearing on behalf of clients before registry.
 Drafting and vetting of various agreements on behalf of clients and attending agreement negotiations with client’s business
partner.

ALPHA PARTNERS
Associate – April 2014 – March 2016

 Handling civil and criminal litigation of various clients indulged in ecommerce, banking, real estate, IT and NBFC’s.
 Drafting of pleadings, criminal complaints, legal notices and applications and conducting legal research of trademarks for
clients.
 Liaising with regulatory bodies and law enforcement agencies on behalf of clients.
 Handling Trademark portfolio for various clients from filing till registration stage.
 Drafting and vetting of various agreements on behalf of clients and attending agreement negotiations with client’s business
partner.

EDUCATION

 B.A. LL.B 2009-2014

(Lloyd Law College)