Bharani Kandarpa

Legal and Contract Management professional with 3.8+ years of experience in Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) and Legal Operations, supporting global technology clients. Experienced in contract drafting, review, redlining, abstraction, metadata extraction, non-standard clause and risk analysis, and M&A due diligence. Proficient in Ironclad, Apttus, Ivo and Jira Service Management, with additional expertise in data privacy and open-source license compliance.

TEAM LEAD at QUISLEX LEGAL SERVICES (2023-02 – Present)

Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM)

• Draft and generate contracts using approved templates, managing contract workflows through execution and signature.
• Maintain executed agreements across Electronic Contract Management System (ECMS), Ironclad and Apttus repositories, ensuring accurate contract records and documentation.
• Review, summarize and abstract Master Service Agreements (MSAs), Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs), Statements of Work (SOWs), Data Processing Agreements (DPAs), Financial Service Addenda (FSAs) and End User License Agreements (EULAs).
• Leverage Ivo's AI-assisted contract review capabilities to extract metadata, identify obligations, assess non-standard clauses and flag contractual risks for further legal review.
• Review and redline agreements against approved contractual templates, including third-party paper, identifying deviations from established standards.
• Support M&A due diligence by reviewing contractual documentation and identifying non-standard provisions, key obligations and potential legal risks.
• Develop and consolidate contract templates and legal playbooks based on client standards, supporting consistency and standardization across subsequent contract reviews.
• Create and maintain SOPs, checklists and playbooks to standardise review quality across the team.
• Own SLA and turnaround tracking for the team, achieving on-time delivery and preparing weekly or monthly performance reports for the client.
• Deliver first-level legal support through Jira Service Management, managing contract-related and legal requests across a global technology client environment.
• Triage requests involving contracts, compliance, customer data and agreement processes, coordinating with relevant business and legal stakeholders.
• Support contract-related requests involving MSAs, NDAs, FSAs, DPAs and other agreements across AMER, EMEA and APAC regions.
• Manage the end-to-end legal request lifecycle, including intake, assessment, stakeholder coordination, tracking and resolution, consistently meeting defined Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and turnaround targets.
• Handle Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs), deletion and opt-out requests under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)/California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) and introductory Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) requirements.
• Coordinate request triage, data identification and stakeholder follow-ups, with exposure to tools like OneTrust and BigID.
• Support open-source license compliance reviews using Black Duck, assessing software components and associated license obligations based on usage models, including dynamic/static linking and derivative works.
• Coordinate with engineering stakeholders on license validation, compliance updates and resolution of identified issues.

One-Year Advanced Diploma in Cyber Laws – NALSAR University (2022 – 2023)

Bachelor of Law (BA.LLB) – Padala Rama Reddi Law College, Osmania University (2017 – 2022)