Arif

Associate at CHRI LEGAL (2025-05 – Present)

Providing legal services including due diligence, contract drafting, and compliance work

• Conducted legal due diligence of a manufacturing company and a mining company, identifying key risks, non-compliances and regulatory issues.
• Drafted Share Purchase Agreements (SPA) for various transactions, including acquisition of 49% equity stake in a renewable energy company and acquisition involving a Singapore-based holding company.
• Assisted in ensuring compliance with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDP), including drafting of consent forms, data transfer agreements, data processing agreements and privacy notices.
• Drafted legal opinions on FEMA compliances, including External Commercial Borrowings (ECB), establishment of Branch Office and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) related matters.
• Drafted and reviewed commercial and legal documents, including service agreements, Non-Disclosure Agreements, Secondment Agreements, workplace regulations, replies to legal notices and key contractual clauses such as confidentiality, indemnity, limitation of liability, termination, dispute resolution and governing law.
• Drafted notices, minutes of meetings and resolutions for Board and Shareholders' meetings in compliance with the Companies law and Securities law.
• Drafted Share Swap and Share Purchase Agreement (SSPA) for a listed company acquiring controlling stake in a Singapore-based entity. Assisted in preparation of transaction checklists and closing documentation for share acquisition deals.
• Conducted clause-by-clause analysis of commercial agreements to identify risks, inconsistencies and enforceability concerns.
• Drafted ancillary transaction documents, including escrow agreements, shareholders' agreements and closing documents.

Assessment Internship at CHRI LEGAL (2025-02 – 2025-04)

Legal research and drafting internship

• Collaborated in Drafting of Share Purchase Agreement and Researched about the FDI norms, authorization and filings.
• Research and Drafting related to outwards remittance (payment is made by Indian co. to Japanese Co.).
• Conducted detailed review and vetting of commercial contracts to identify legal risks, inconsistencies and enforceability concerns.

Assessment Internship at CLARUS LAW ASSOCIATES (2024-08 – 2024-08)

Legal research and drafting internship focused on corporate law

• Research on case related to section 241 & 242 of Companies Act, 2013 (power of central govt. to apply to tribunal in case of oppression and mismanagement cases related to a Company).
• Limitation on cross question in an International Commercial Arbitration where the procedural law is International Bar Association Rules and guidelines.
• Assisted in structuring and drafting Share Purchase Agreements, including formulation of representations and warranties, conditions precedent and post-closing obligations.

Internship at AOR KISHORE KUNAL (2024-07 – 2024-07)

Legal research and opinion making on tax and FEMA matters

• Research & Drafting in Service Tax matter, whether services of uplinking and DSNG vehicle would be taxable?
• Research & opinion making on FEMA matter where there is a delay in reporting to the RBI about issuance of shares after the cautionary notice.
• Research & opinion making on the applicability of GST on NFT/ Token/ Vouchers/ Crypto Currencies.

Internship at GUPTA LAW ASSOCIATES (2024-01 – 2024-01)

Legal research and drafting in IBC, tax and customs matters

• Research & Drafting in the case of IBC, where the corporate creditor was not following the resolution plan, leading to the initiation of a liquidation process.
• Worked on tax-related matters [whether Rule 96(10) of CGST rules r/w s.16 IGST & s. 164 CGST are good in law?], [what is the validity of s.66D of Finance Act, 1994 r/w s. 37B of Central Excise Tax & s.118 of Finance Act, 2019].
• Research & Drafting in the case of customs misdeclaration, customs duty evasion, importing banned goods & cross-examination rights under the Customs Act.

Internship at Office of Adv. Ram Pratap Saini (2022-06 – 2022-07)

Legal research and drafting in litigation matters

• Research & Drafting in the case of paper leak in the RJAC exam, researched grounds for exam cancellation, re-conduction of the exam and medical negligence [malfunctioning of the pacemaker and the doctor's negligence leading to legal injury].
• Research & Drafting in the case of refunds to investors, discrimination in the appointment and promotion of the govt. employees.

B.Com., LL.B. Hons. in Law – Institute of Law, NIRMA University (2020 – 2025)

XII in Science, C.B.S.E. Board – Central Academy, Rewa (M.P.) (2019 – 2019)

X in M.P. Board – Bal Ganga Public School, Rewa (M.P.) (2017 – 2017)